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Compendiaria musicae artis editio (b).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 500

BASICS
Title page:

Compendiaria Mu||sice artis aeditio/ cũcta q̃ ad practicã || attinẽt mira quadã breui⸗||tate complectens.|| [woodcut] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator || MK||

Colophon:

Lipsi Vuolffgangus Monaceñ.impressit.Anno. 1516.|| (fol. C5v)

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

Leipzig

Year:
1516
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 460
VD16 C 4659
vdm
500
Further details:

There are two editions of this book printed in the same year by the same printer, which show major variants on the title page, colophon, and layout throughout.

Further contributors: Michael Koßwick
Paratexts:

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.

Illustrations:

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“.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 112.5 x 156 mm (fol. A2r)
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A4, B-C6 (last folio blank).
Autopsy copy:

D-KIu Cb 4353

Online facsimile:

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D-Klu Cb 4353, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Textura

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

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

full-length staff (A3r, hufnagel notation): 110 x 9 mm; full-length staff (B4v, mensural notation): 112 x 7 mm.

Comments on notation:

Two tables to show how to compose for several voices (fols. C5r-v).

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for hexachords, modes, intervals, psalm intonations, note values, ligatures, proportion, rules of counterpoint.

Copies:

*D-KIu

Related editions:

Compendiaria musicae artis editio (a).

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 498


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


Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1520, vdm: 497


D-Klu Cb 4353, A3r
COPIES
D-KIu (Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Cb 4353
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: White cardboard on wood
Content of composite volume:

[1] [Apologia pro declamatione de laude matrimonii] Des. Erasmi Roterodami Apologia pro declamatione de laude matrimonij. Basel: Frobenius, 1519;
[2] Junij Juuenalis || Aquinatis inter Latinos sa||tyrographos cõsumatissimi Satyrę:|| emaculatius impressę.|| ITEM.|| Au. Persius Satyrus non || ignobilis.|| Leipzig: Jakob Thanner, 1517;
[3] VLRI=||CHI DE HVTTEN || EQVITIS GERMANI.|| STICHOLOGIA VT || COMPENDIOSA || ITA NON IN=||FRVGIPE=||RA.|| Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1518;
[4] [Versilogus] Antonij Manci||nelli Versilogus iam multis || in locis recognitus & auctus per Iosephu[m] Horlen=||niu[m]. Adiectis breuibus & vtilib[us] co[m]me[n]tarijs viri vn=||decu[m]q[ue] doctissimi Ioa[n]nis Murmellij Ruremu[n]de[n]sis.|| Lipsiae: Schuman[n], 1517;
[5] [Dialogi Duo, Charon Et Tyrannus] LVCIANI || SAMOSATENSIS || DIALOGI DVO,|| CHARON ET || Tyrannus, in qui||bus mira gratia || humanę con||ditionis miseriae || depinguntur, Petro || Mosellano Protegensi || Interprete.||. Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm, 1518;
[6] DIVI PAVLI AD TITVM || EPISTOLA SANCTA.|| Wittenberg: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, 1516;
[7] [De coniuratione Catilinae] C. Crispi Sallvstii De coniuratione Catilinæ ; Eivsdem. De bello Iugurthino; Item. C. Crispi Sallustij vita. Straßburg: Matthias Schürer, 1513.
[8] Compendiaria musicae artis editio (b). Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1516, vdm: 500.

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