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Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1520, vdm: 497

BASICS
Title page:

Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio cuncta q̃ ad practicam attinent || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Frater Michael Koßwick.|| [woodcut with Pythagoras] || Inuentum Samii modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et parus redimas/ vale viator.|| ¶Lipsi impressit Uuolffgangus Monaceñ. i520.||

Colophon:

¶Lipsi impressit Uuolgangus [sic] Monacensis Anno i5.20.||

Author:
Michael Koßwick
Printer:
Wolfgang Stöckel
Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1520
Further information on dating: from title page and colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 461
VD16 K 2150
vdm
497
Paratexts:

A1v-2r: Preface
A2r: Tetrastichon in liuidum.

Illustrations:

Woodcut on the title page: Pythagoras holding a pair of scales with a hammer in one pan and two weights in the other. He stands outdoors, in front of a smithy, where three men are hitting hammers on an anvil. In the background are a village with a mill and a castle on a hill. Inscription above: “PI TAGORAS.”

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 117 x 180 mm (A2r)
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A-C4 (last folio blank)
Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl K.2.d.16

Online facsimile:

D-HEu


D-Heu G 671 RES, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Textura, Uncial

Remarks on printing:

Types 3, 5, 8, 9 (Proctor).

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
3, 4, 5, 10
Number of voices:
1, 3, 4
Measurements:

staff lines (A3r): 110 x 9.5 mm

Comments on notation:

Tabulae compositoriae on D3r-v

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Music examples for the modes, the intervals, the psalm tones, intonations, mensuration signs, alteration, simple contrapunctus and for the composition with three and four parts (in tabula decemlinealis).

Copies:

D-HEu, D-WRz, *GB-Lbl

Related editions:

Compendiaria musicae artis editio (a).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 498


Compendiaria musicae artis editio (b).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 500


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1517, vdm: 501


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1518, vdm: 499


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519, vdm: 502

Secondary literature:

Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (133, 11497)


D-Heu G 671 RES, B2r
COPIES
D-HEu (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: G 671 RES
Link to online scan:

D-HEu

D-WRz (Weimar, Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek - Studienzentrum)
GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: K.2.d.16
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: dark red cardboard
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Top of title page: JESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDEORVM. TITVLVS TRIVMPHALIS || DEFENDAT NOS AB OMNIBVS MALIS ||. Full figure of a man on the right border of the title page. Several annotations on the borders and a passage on the last flyleaf (verso) in neat and tiny handwriting.

Provenance:

The number "4" on the bottom of the title page suggests that this copy was part of a larger collection in earlier times.