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Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1517, vdm: 506

BASICS
Title page:

Musice Actiue || Micrologꝰ Andree Orni⸗||toparchi Ostrofranci Meyningensis, Artiũ || Mgr̃i, Libris Quattuor digestꝰ. Oĩbꝰ Mu⸗||sicæ studiosis nõ tã vtilis q̃𝔷 necessarius.|| Laurentius Thurschenreutinus Ad studio⸗||sum Musices Lectorem.|| Musica: quam rursus mēdis purgauerit author: || Iam redit ante oculos: lector amice: tuos.|| Iā
redit ante oculos, Lypsick excussa Schumāni || Arte Valentini: qui bene pressit eam.|| Arte Valentini facta est nitidissima tota: || Et tibi Arionios afferet illa sonos.||

Colophon:

Excussum est hoc opus, ab ipso authore denuo castigatum, || recognitumq𝔷: Lipsie in edibus Valentini Schumanni, calco=||graphi solertissimi: Mense Nouẽbri: Anni virginei partus de=||cimi septimi supra sesquimillesimũ. Leone decimo Pont. Max.|| ac Maximiliano inuicitissimo imꝑatore orbi terraꝝ p̃sidētibus.||

Author:
Andreas Vogelsang
Printer:
Valentin Schumann
Printer's mark:

M4r: Mark with two branches and oak leaves with initials VS and LD.

Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1517
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 627
VD16 ZV 15270
vdm
506
Further details:

Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.

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

a1r: poem, Laurentius Thurschenreutinus [i.e. Hochwart] Ad studiosum Musices Lectorem.
a1v: poem, Nicolaus Marcescalcus Thurius ... In Musicen Andree Ornithoparchi.
a1v: Philippus Surus Miltenburgensis Artium Magister ad Lectorem Musice studiosum.
E3r: letter of dedication to second part, Venerabili ac multe beneuolentie viro, domino Georgio Bracchio Musico peritissimo ... Andreas Ornitoparchus ... Salutem.
I1r: Finit liber Secundus. Sequitur Tertius. Perspicacis Ingenii Viro Philippo Suro … Musico argutissimo Sacelli Palatini principis, ac Bauarie ducis moderatori praecipuo: Andreas Ornitoparchus … Salutem.
M3v: Tetrastichon authoris ad Librum. … Libellus ad Lectorem.
M4r: Tetrastichon Auctoris in inuidum.

Illustrations:

Frame of title made of five woodblocks. The largest, at the bottom, shows Orpheus and Euridice holding a sign with music for two voices (Discantus and Tenor) in mensural notation. Various illustrative woodcuts including one showing the hexachords (with organ pipes) (A6v) and one showing the mutations (B4v).
C4r: Diagram of a monochord.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 117 x 172 mm
Number of leaves:
54
Collation: A6, B4, C6, D-E4, F6, G-M4.
Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl K.1.h.16

Online facsimile:

D-HAu, D-B (1), D-B (2)


D-B Mus. ant. theor. O 15a (1), A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Antiqua (Roman)

Colour printing:

red type on title page

Remarks on printing:

Includes inverse woodcuts (black block, white lines) showing musica ficta (C5v) and note values (E4r, F3r).
Types 1, 2, 4, 5, (7) (Proctor).

Musical layout:
music in illustration
Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

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

full-length staff (A5r): 117 x 13 mm

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Numerous musical examples; in first part on intervals, musica ficta, psalm intonations, modes; in the second part, to show ligatures, mensuration, prolation, coloration, alteration etc.; in the third part, “de laude accentus.” Rules of counterpoint.

Copies:

*A-Wgm, CH-SGs, CH-SI, CZ-Pu, *D-B, *D-B, D-B, D-BNu, *D-Dl, D-DS, D-HAu, D-Ju, *D-W, DK-Kk, F-Pn, F-Sn, *GB-Lbl, I-Vnm, *US-NYp, US-Wc

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was listed in the catalogue of the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (before 1614, see Möller and Vollhardt).

Related editions:

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


De arte cantandi micrologus.

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

Secondary literature:

Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (136, 11518)
Möller, Eberhard. Die beiden ältesten Notenkataloge der Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau. In Festschrift Haberkamp. Tutzing: Hans Schneider Verlag, 2002, 13-26. (I, 20; II, 38)
Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 129-130, No 231)

Print facsimile:

Ornitoparchus, Musicae activae micrologus, 1517. Faksimile, Hildesheim/New York: Olms, 1977


D-B Mus. ant. theor. O 15a (1), A6r
COPIES
A-Wgm (Wien, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: 846/28
Condition:

Good.

Comments:

red ms. illuminations on the title pages (capital letters of the poem and on the dresses of Orpheus and Euridice)

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown marbled cardboard, brown spine and edges.
CH-SGs (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek)
CH-SI (Sion, Bibliothèque cantonale du Valais)
CZ-Pu (Praha, Národní knihovna České republiky (National Library))
D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. O 15a (1)
Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Ugly twentieth-century binding in brown leather, with slipcase, and gold lettering.
Content of composite volume:

Collectanea quedam Musice dicipline (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1513)

Bound with copies from vdm:

Collectanea quaedam musicae disciplinae utilia quam necessaria [Hanau 1513] - D-B

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Keywords in margins.

Provenance:

Uncertain.

Link to online scan:

D-B (1)

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. B 151 (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Vellum.
Content of composite volume:

According to an inscription on the inside of the binding, this copy was originally bound with four books of arithmetic and five further music theory books. The arithmetic books are no longer in this binding, while the music books are (including ten folios of handwritten material on music theory in the back of the book).

Bound with copies from vdm:

Hortulus musices practicae [Lotter 1518] - D-B
Compendiaria musicae artis editio [Stöckel 1516] (a) - D-B
Opus aureum musicae [Quentell 1505] - D-B (1)
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - D-B (2)

Link to online scan:

D-B (2)

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
D-BNu (Bonn, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
D-Dl (Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 6.A.870,angeb.6
Condition:

Binding restored.

Comments:

Miscatalogued in local OPAC as 1519 edition.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Sixteenth-century stamped pigskin spine, the rest of the cover restored in the twentieth century.
Content of composite volume:

[0.] Chyromancia doctoris Andree || Henrici (Frankfurt/Oder : Hanau, Johannes d.Ä., 1514; VD16 H 2061)
1. GALEOTI || MARTII || NARNIENSIS DE || HOMINE LI/||BRI DVO.|| GEORGII ME||RVLAE ALEXANDRINI IN || GALEOTVM ANNO||TATIONES (Basel : Froben, Johann, 1517; VD16 M 1306)
2. INtroductorium || in astrologiam AL||CHABICII (Frankfurt/Oder : Baumgarten, Konrad : Lacher, Ambrosius, 1508; VD16 ZV 364)
3. ARithmetica || Muris (Frankfurt/Oder : Lacher, Ambrosius, 1508; VD16 ZV 8712)
4. DE principijs iuditi=||orum Astrologie.|| Introductorium Zahelis || Ysmaelite (Frankfurt/Oder : Baumgarten, Konrad, 1508; VD16 S 1316)
5. ISAGOGE IN MVSICEN || HENRICI GLAREA||NI HELVETII || POE. LAV. (Basel : Froben, Gertrud : Froben, Johann, 1516; L 2643 / L 2617)
6. Musice Actiue || Micrologus Andree Orni=||toparchi Ostrofranci Meyningensis (Leipzig : Schumann, Valentin, 1517; VD16 ZV 15270)

Bound with copies from vdm:

Isagoge in musicen [Froben 1516] - D-Dl

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Many ms glosses; fol. F2r notated music in ms.

Provenance:

Old shelfmark on spine: Q8.
Acquired by the SLUB after WWII.

D-DS (Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
D-HAu (Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt)
Link to online scan:

D-HAu

D-Ju (Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 125.6 Quod. (1)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Limp vellum binding with a metal clasp at the centre.
Content of composite volume:

[0]. manuscript (20 folios )
1. Ornitoparchus, Musicae Activae Micrologus, 1517
2. Minoris Donati de octo partibus orationis compendiosa interpretatio per magistrum Johannem Glogouiensem, Strasbourg: Knobloch, 1515 (?).
3. Burchardi, Hortulus musices practicae, Leipzig: Lotter, 1517
4. Computus: iamiam ampliatus at emendatus:... introductorium Astronomiam, Leipzig: Monacensis, s.d.
[5.] manuscript (22 folios, 10 blank)

Bound with copies from vdm:

Hortulus musices practicae [Lotter 1517] - D-W

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some annotations on the title page.

DK-Kk (Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek)
F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
F-Sn (Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire)
GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: K.1.h.16
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Chant notation on the binding, which was made later. There is an inscription („Frater Erhard“) on the binding.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Hand-colouring on title page and at individual points in the book. There are a few manuscript additions, such as musical staves (empty on bottom of some of the pages). On one occasion the note values are given in brown ink (F1r).

I-Vnm (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana)
Shelfmark: MUSICA 317
US-NYp (New York, NY, New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Music Division)
Shelfmark: Mus Res *MH
Condition:

Several pages (including first and last) are missing and have been supplied by photocopies.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Red buckram.
Provenance:

Letter from List & Francke Leipzig, 15/8/1903 to the Königl. Bibliothek asking if the fragment (missing the title page!) might be part of Ornitoparchus, Micrologus; another note in pencil on the fly leaf: „Rosenthal 8. Febr. 1933“.

US-Wc (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Music Division)