Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 498
Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio/ cuncta q̃ ad practicam attinẽt || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Cum quibusdam nouis additionibus.|| [woodcut of Pythagoras weighing hammers] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator || ¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. 1516.||
Lipsi Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. impressit. Anno. 1516.|| Et in vigilia Lucie et Otilie foeliciter finiuit.||
Leipzig
Theory book
In the D-B copy on fol. B4 verso two lines of music (4 and 5) have been pasted over with a piece of paper, which has a different version of the musical example printed on it. There are two editions of this book printed in the same year by the same printer, which show major variants on the title page and colophon.
A1v-2r: Reuerendo in Christo patri ac dno dno Balthasari coenobij Dobrilucensis Abbati… Michael Koswick artium ac philosophiae magister S.P.D. (preface, dated Lipsi Calendis Aprilibus. Anno partus deipare virginis. Millesimo quingentesimosextodecimo).
A2r: Tetrastichon in liuidum.
Title woodcut: Pythagoras holding a pair of scales with a hammer on one and two bells on the other side. He stands outdoors, in front of a blacksmith where three men are hitting hammers on an anvil. In the background is a village with a mill and a castle on a hill. On the top is the inscription: „PITAGORAS“.
Latin
D-B Mus. ant. theor. B 151 (2)
D-B
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woodcut
Textura, Rotunda
red type on title page
Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation
Staff lines (A3r): 110 x 9.5 mm
Two tables to show how to compose for several voices.
example in theory book
Musical examples for hexachords, modes, intervals, psalm intonations, note values, ligatures, proportion, rules of counterpoint.
*D-B, F-Pc, I-Bc, US-R
Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 500 Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1517, vdm: 501 Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1518, vdm: 499 Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519, vdm: 502 Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1520, vdm: 497
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The four arithmetical treatises listed in an original table of contents on the inside front cover are no longer present. In its present state, the volume contains five printed music treatises and one manuscript treatise on chant, not further identified; description in RISM BIII/3, pp. 36-37.
Hortulus musices practicae [Lotter 1518] - D-B
Musicae activae micrologus [Schumann 1517] - D-B (2)
Opus aureum musicae [Quentell 1505] - D-B (1)
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - D-B (2)
On fol. B4 verso two systems of music (4 and 5) have been pasted over with a piece of paper, which has a different version of the musical example printed on it.
Handwritten explanations for the values of notes within ligatures on fol. C1r, in light brown ink.
Round stamp on the title-page of item 1: Königl. Pr. Bibliothek zu Erfurt.
D-B