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Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1518, vdm: 499

BASICS
Title page:

Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio / cuncta q̃ ad practicam attinent || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Magister Michael Koswick.|| [title woodcut] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator.|| ¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. i5i8.||

Colophon:

¶ Lipsi Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. impressit. Anno. j5j8.|| Et in vigilia Laurenti martiris foeliciter finiuit.||

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

Leipzig

Year:
1518
Further information on dating: from title page and colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 461
VD16 K 2149
vdm
499
Paratexts:

A1v-2r: Preface by Koßwick.
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: “PITAGORAS.”

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 117 x 172 mm
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A6, B4, C6 (last folio blank).
Autopsy copy:

A-Wn S.A.71.D.38

Online facsimile:

D-Mbs


D-Mbs 4 Mus.th. 821 l, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Textura, Uncial

Remarks on printing:

The woodcuts are quite rough.

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
3, 4, 5, 10
Number of voices:
1, 2
Measurements:

staff lines (A3r, 1st system): 109 x 9 mm

Comments on notation:

Tabulae compositoriae on C5r–v.

Genre:

example in theory book

Copies:

*A-Wn, B-Br, D-Eu, D-Mbs, D-Mu, *D-Z, DK-Kk

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was once held in the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (see Vollhardt).

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, 1519, vdm: 502


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1520, vdm: 497

Secondary literature:

Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 126, No. 222)


D-Mbs 4 Mus.th. 821 l, A2v
COPIES
A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: S.A.71.D.38
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Marbled brown-green paper on cardboard.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Several glosses in black ink throughout the book.

B-Br (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)
Shelfmark: INC A 239 (RP) (Réserve précieuse)
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Napoléon I 1769-1821 Empereur des Français
Fétis François-Joseph 1784-1871. Olim Fétis 5.302.

D-Eu (Eichstätt, Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4 Mus.th. 821 l
Provenance:

Benedictbeuren. Inscription on A1r: Benedictenpeyren. fr. ioannes.

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs

D-Mu (München, Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
D-Z (Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek)
Shelfmark: XXIV,7,11
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Oak boards, impressed with diaper patters, quarter bound in blindstamped brown leather; traces of brass clasps.
Content of composite volume:

10. S. de Quercu, Opusculum musices (Nuremberg: Weyssenburger, 1513)
12. J. Cochlaeus, Tetrachordum musices (Nuremberg: Stuchs, 1512)
Several other text books.

DK-Kk (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek)