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Hortulus musices practicae.

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter the Elder, 1517, vdm: 420

BASICS
Title page:

Hortulus Musices || Practice om̃ibus diuino Gre⸗||goriani concentus modulo se oblecta⸗||turis tam iucũdus ꝙ̃̃ proficuus.|| Decastichon Joannis Langii in Hortulũ || Musices Vdalrici Burchardi. [...] ||| τεολοσ.|| Lipsiae ex officina Melchiaris Lottheri||

Colophon:

Finis. Anno xvij||

Author:
Ulrich Burchardi
Printer:
Melchior Lotter the Elder
Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1517
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 188
VD16 ZV 2709
vdm
420
Further details:

The music examples (in Hufnagel notation) are printed from double impression.


Further contributors: Johann Lange; Ulrich Burchardi
Paratexts:

1r: Decastichon Joannis Langij in hortulus Musices Udalrici Burchardi
1v: index of different chapters
A2r-v: “Vdalrichus Burchardi ex Vueyschenfelth .... Lipsicae iuuentuti florentissime salutem […].” Dated “Lipsie kalendis Aprilis Anno salutis Millesimo quingentesimo || decimoquarto“


Language:

Latin; Greek

Format:
Printed area: 108 x 160 mm
Number of leaves:
14
Collation: A6, B4, [C4] (gathering C is not signed).
Autopsy copy:

D-W A: 125.6 Quod. (3)



D-W A: 125.6 Quod. (3), A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Greek, Antiqua (Roman), Textura, Rotunda

Colour printing:

red type on title page, [other]

Remarks on printing:

In a table (A5r), some lines printed in red, taking advantage of the occurrence of red type on the title page. [C1v] printed in landscape format to maximise space. The five-line staves are made of six blocks of 16.7 mm and one block of 4.9 mm. The four-line staves are made of sections 8.4 mm and 17.3 mm long.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
4, 5, 6
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-length staff (b3r, 5 lines): 107 x 16.5 mm; height of virga: 11 mm


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for mutation, psalm intonations


Copies:

B-Br, *D-W

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of one of the variant editions, not specified by year of publication, was held in the library of Ferdinand Columbus (ca. 1510-1539, no. 1865) (see Plamenac).

Related editions:

Hortulus musices practicae (a).

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter the Elder, [1514], vdm: 417


Hortulus musices practicae (b).

[Leipzig]: [Melchior Lotter the Elder], [1514], vdm: 418


Hortulus musices practicae.

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter the Elder, 1518, vdm: 421


Secondary literature:

Plamenac, Dragan. “Excerpta Colombiniana: Items of musical interest in Fernando Colóns 'Regestrum.” In: Micelánea en Homenaje a Monsenor Hinigo Angles, Barcelona 1958-1961, vol. 2, pp. 663-687. (p. 674)


D-W A: 125.6 Quod. (3), s.p.
COPIES
B-Br (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)
Shelfmark: INC A 232 (RP) (Réserve précieuse)
Provenance:

Fétis.Olim Fétis 5949.
Bound by Demesmaeker. Signature of the binder: "Demesmaeker Rel. du Roi"


D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 125.6 Quod. (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Limp vellum binding with a metal clasp at the centre.
Content of composite volume:

[0.] Manuscript (20 folios)
1. Ornitoparchus, Musicae Activae Micrologus, 1517
2. Minoris Donati de octo partibus orationis compendiosa interpretatio per magistrum Johannem Glogouiensem, Strasbourg: Knobloch, 1515 (?)
3. Burchardi, Hortulus musices practicae, Leipzig: Lotter, 1517
4. Computus: iamiam ampliatus at emendatus:... introductorium Astronmiam, Leipzig: Monacensis, s.d.
[5.] Manuscript (22 folios, 10 blank)

Bound with copies from vdm:

Musicae activae micrologus [Schumann 1517] - D-W