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Compendiaria musicae artis editio.

Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519, vdm: 502

BASICS
Title page:

Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio/ cuncta q̃ ad practicam atinent || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Magister Michael Koswick. || [woodcut] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas labellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator. || ¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolfgangus Monaceñ. j5j9.||

Colophon:

¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolfgangus Monacensis Anno.j5j9.||

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

Leipzig

Year:
1519
Further information on dating: from title page.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 461
vdm
502
Paratexts:

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

Illustrations:

Title page: woodcut of Pythagoras (“PITAGORAS”) weighing hammers.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 112 x 175 mm
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A6, B4, C6 (last folio blank)
Autopsy copy:

GB-Ob 4° W 9 Art.Seld.; title page after US-Cn Case 4A 1008

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Textura, Uncial

Colour printing:

red type on title page

Remarks on printing:

On the title page woodcut and poem are in black, title and impressum in red.

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-KR, *GB-Ob, *US-Cn

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, 1520, vdm: 497

COPIES
A-KR (Kremsmünster, Benediktinerstift)
Comments:

Not locatable (March 2018).

GB-Ob (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
Shelfmark: 4° W 9 Art.Seld.
Condition:

Scuffed. The copy of the Koßwick lacks its title page.

Comments:

This copy lacks its title-page; the information in the entry has been provided from this copy until a complete copy is inspected.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Nineteenth-century binding, half-bound in brown buckram and brown leather.
Content of composite volume:

1. Koßwick, Compendiaria musicae artis editio (Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519).
2. Nicolaus Wollick, Enchiridion musices (Paris; Jean Petit, 1512) (contains extensive early annotations).

Manuscript additions or corrections:

C4r, sixteenth-century hand: GA ys sesqualtyd
C4r, another sixteenth-century hand: Tenor Isto medis aduersis figuris ac terminibus musicalibus cantetur leo In puncto perfeccionis molosus siue puncto perfeccionis maiorem prolacionis imperfectione visus fracta denique campana donec lichanos meson incipiatur pause mi: secundum guydonem et pyctogeram.
C4v, another sixteenth-century hand: Greek alphabet with names in Latin script.
C4v, another sixteenth-century hand: The condicion if thys Obbligation ys suche that yf the above bownden thomas Morleye

Provenance:

Inscription on fol. A3r of Koßwick: Thomas Horran (?).
Inscription of fol. l4v of Wollick: Jhesus mercye an– 1572 || Sum liber Roberti Myngaye || Robart Mingaye owe this booke.

US-Cn (Chicago, IL, The Newberry Library)
Shelfmark: Case 4A 1008
Condition:

Folio C6 is lacking.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: light brown cardboard
Manuscript additions or corrections:

A3r: “De Tonis” in ink in the margin. A3v: small addition in the margin, hard to read (“Mutatio…”). Later pencil foliation.

Provenance:

Inside front binding: “Ex libris Alfred Cortot”. Inside back binding: Former call number, Cortot 58. “Gift of Marie-Louise Rosenthal.” Stamps on bottom right recto of two leaves (A1, B4), light green ink, something like “C” over “A”? (something to do with Alfred Cortot collection?)