ISAGOGE IN MVSICEN || HENRICI GLAREA||NI HELVETII || POE. LAV.|| e quibusq𝔷 bonis au||thoribꝰ latinis & græcis ad || studiosorũ utilitatẽ || multo labore || elaborata.|| AD FALCONEM COSS.|| VRBIS AVENTICENSIS.||
[II:] DVO ELEGIARVM LIBRI || HENRICI GLAREANI || HELVETII AD || VLDERI-||CVM || ZINLIVM || DOGGIVM.||

BASILEAE IN AEDIBVS IOANNIS || Frobenij Hammelburgensis diligen-||tissimi apud Alemannos || Chalcographi, || expensis || autẽ || Gertrudæ || Lachneræ uxoris || Frobenij. Anno domini || M. D. XVI. Decimooctauo || Calendas Decembreis.||

two snakes in a skutcheon that wound around a stick hold by two hands, with a bird sitting on top (part of the title border, signed by Hans Holbein). At the very end of the book again Froben’s mark, here surrounded by four lines - one in Latin, two in Greek and one in Hebrew.

Basel

Theory book

The second part of this edition contains a collection of poems with no music. This edition was printed by Froben’s heirs and funded by his widow Gertrude Lachner.

A1v: Dedication from Glareanus to Peter Falco dated “Basileæ. Anno Christi. M D XVI. ad Idus Maias.” No other date given in the edition.
A3r-v: “In laudem citharae et musices eiusdem Glareani carmen.”
E4r: Errata.
In second part:
F1v: Ilderico Zinlio Doggio viro philosopho et theologo Glareanus.
K5r: In Henrici Glareani Helvetii Poetae Laurem Ioannis Vogetini Angentoracensis Carmen.

A1r: integral title border woodcut, signed by Hans Holbein, with putti and Froben’s printer’s mark in a shield below.
Some diagrams (e.g. the harmonic genera, fols. A3v-4r) are created from type. Others are made from a combination of type and woodcut (e.g. the Greater perfect system, fol. A4v).
F1r: Title border made of four woodcuts, with birds, rabbits, architectural and floral patterns.

Latin; Greek; Hebrew

D-Dl 6.A.870, angeb.5

D-Mbs, B-Br, US-Wc, A-Wn

woodcut

Antiqua (Roman), Text printed from woodcut, Greek

Much use of Greek type in body text and as part of the illustrations.

Square notation

First system on D4r: 106 x 20.3 mm (8 lines); First system on A1v: 101.9 x 11 mm (5 lines); First system on A2r: 107 x 8 mm (4 lines).

All theory examples are given in square notation, cut in woodblock.

example in theory book, chant

Sample psalm tone intonations.

A-Wn, A-Iu, A-Wn, B-Br, CH-A, *CH-Bu, CH-Bu, CH-Bu, CH-Bu, CH-SGs, *CH-Zz, CH-Zz, *CH-Zz, D-B, D-BEU, *D-Dl, D-FRu, D-HB, D-Ju, D-Lr, D-Mbs, D-Ngm, D-Nst, D-Rp, D-W, D-Z, E-Sco, F-CO, F-Pc, F-Pn, GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl, GB-SA, I-Bc, I-Ma, I-Rsc, NL-DHgm, US-Cn, US-LAuc, US-R, US-U, US-Wc

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein). A copy of this edition was once held in the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (see Vollhardt), in the library of Heilbronn (see Siegele), and in the library of Ferdinand Columbus (ca. 1510-1539, no. 1496) (see Plamenac).

Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 81)
Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 124-125, No 218)
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. 673)
Siegele, Ulrich. Die Musiksammlung der Stadt Heilbronn. Heilbronn: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, 1967 (Veröffentlichungen des Archives der Stadt Heilbronn, 13). (pp. 84-85)