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De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1535, vdm: 504

BASICS
Title page:

❧ ANDREAE OR-||NITOPARCHI MEYNINGENSIS DE || arte cantandi micrologus, libris quatuor || digestus, omnibus musicæ studio-||sis non tam utilis quàm neces-||sarius, diligenter reco-||gnitus.|| [printer’s decoration] || ¶ Coloniæ apud Ioannem Gymnicum.|| Anno. M. D. XXXV.||

Author:
Andreas Vogelsang
Printer:
Johannes Gymnich the Elder
Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1535
Further information on dating: Taken from title page.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 627
USTC 611508
VD16 V 2128
vdm
504
Further details:

Separated in four books with different themes, but they continue on from each other (not starting a new collation, for example). Interestingly, each part has a new dedication letter. Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.

Dedicatee:
Georg Brack; Philipp Surus; Arnold Schlick
Further contributors: Heinrich Cother; Nikolaus Marschalk; Andreas Vogelsang
Paratexts:

A1v: In Libelli titulum inscriptionemque iocus.
A1v: Nicolaus Marescalcus thurius, … in musicen Andreæ Ornitoparchi.
A2r-A3v: Spectabilibus Praeclarisque viris Lunenburgensis ... Andreas Ornitoparchus Meyningensis liberalium disciplinarum Magister, Salutem.
A3v: Henrici Cotheri Brunopolitani. Argumentum libri primi.
E4r: Venerabili Multae Benevolentiae viro Domino Georgio Brachio ... Andreas Ornithoparchus … salutem (second dedication letter at start of the second chapter).
I1v: Perspicacis ingenii Viro Philippo Suro Myltemburgensi ... Andreas Ornitoparchus Meyningensis Sa. (new dedication letter at beginning of third part).
K2v: Spectabili … viro Magistro Arnoldo Schlick … Andreas Ornitoparchus ... Salutem (new dedication letter at beginning of fourth part).
M2v: Tetrastichon autoris ad Librum.
M3r: Libellus ad lectorem.
M3v: Henrici Cotheri Brunopolitani ... ad Andream Ornithoparchum ... epigramma.
M3v: Tetrastichon Autoris in inuidum.

Comments on paratexts:

This book has a large number of paratexts. Each book has a new preface.

Language:

Latin; Greek

Format:
6º
Printed area: 115 x 107 mm
Number of leaves:
72
Collation: A-M6 (last two folios blank).
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492

Online facsimile:

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D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, A1r

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, A1v
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Greek, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

Some example in inverse printing (white lines on black background): note values on f. E6r; f. F3v. Tables with notation for two voices (score). The text is set in Italics. Antiqua is used as a display font.

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

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

full-length staff (B1v): 113.5 x 13.5 mm

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Chapters on cantus planus (and definition of music), mensuralis cantilena, ecclesiasticus accentus, contrapunctus. Musical examples on: different modes, mutation, intervals, monochord, psalm intonations, accentus, counterpoint.

Copies:

*D-Mbs

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was recorded in the catalogue of the Werdenstein library (Charteris, p. 199).

Related editions:

Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1517, vdm: 506


Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 505


De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Hero Fuchs, 1524, vdm: 528


De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1533, vdm: 503

Secondary literature:

Charteris, Richard. Johann Georg von Werdenstein (1542-1608). A Major Collector of Early Music Prints. Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2006 (p. 199; II, no. 22)


D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, B1v

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, F1r
COPIES
D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Mus.th. 2492
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Bound in parchment recycled from a manuscript of Anastasius Bibliothecarius’ hagiographical vita of Conon (Migne, Patrologia Latina 128: 881-884) in a Carolingian miniscule, perhaps of the twelfth century.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

On title page: Mus. N= 187 in brown ink.

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Johann Georg von Werdenstein, accessioned to the Bavarian ducal library in 1592. The bookplate “Ex. Electorali Bibliotheca ... Bavariae Ducum” is pasted in the front.

Secondary literature:

Charteris, Richard. Johann Georg von Werdenstein (1542-1608). A Major Collector of Early Music Prints. Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2006 (199)

Link to online scan:

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