Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540
Musica.|| Decastichon. M. Jo. Wendelstein || in musicam exhortatorium.|| Quos dolor & luctus mentis mala gaudia tangunt || Huchuc assitis: Orphea consulite.|| Musica diuersis effingit vocibus unum || Concors nempe melos: delicias animi.|| Hic non illecebris locus est: non carmina spurca || Pangimus: ingrate non canimus domine.|| Nos celestis amor moueat: blando resonare || Concentu: & suaui voce replere chorum || Quare agite O iuuenes perparua hunc mole libellum || Sumite mente pia: quem pius edit amor.|| Remacli florenatis Hexastichon || Si tibi threijcium vis conciliare leporem || Et testudinee plectra canora lyre || Suscipe dyrceos helyconis gurgite fontes || Artificis referes muneta [sc. munera] grata chelis || Addidit ad musas coclei cura Iohannis || Que non liuor edax rumpere dente queat.||
Finis totius musice actiue. tris in ꝑtes diuise.|| oꝑa quidem atq𝔷 impẽsis. M. Jo. wendel||stein Impresse. per honestum virum || Johãnem Landen inclite Ciui||tatis Colonie ꝯciuẽ Anno || incarnatõis dñi 1507 || Sexto idus Julij ||
Cologne
Theory book
Some copies have an insertion of the pamphlets “In cantus Choralis exercitium” (vdm 1572) and "Compendium in praxim" (vdm 649), both also by Cochlaeus.
A1r: Dedicatory poems by Cochlaeus and Remaclus Florenas.
A1v-2r: Introduction by Cochlaeus (= Wendelstein).
B6v: woodcut of Virgin and Child with St Anna (“Anna Selbdritt”), in a rectangle framed by four separate borders with animals, leaves and flowers.
Latin
D-Mbs Mus.th. 283
D-Mbs, A-Wn, US-Wc, B-Br
woodcut
Rotunda, Uncial
Uncials often used as capitals to introduce sections. Types 1, 4 (Proctor).
Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation
example on (A3v), C faut etc.: 98 x 9.5 mm
Hufnagel notation on two to five lines, mensural notation also on four lines. Several scalae compositoriae.
example in theory book
Three parts: 1. Musica plana (A-B), 2. Musica mensurabilis (C-D), 3. Ars componendi et contrapunctus (E-F).
*A-Wn, *B-Br, D-GI, *D-Mbs, *E-Sco, GB-Cu, GB-Lbl, *US-Wc
[Nuremberg]: [Anonymous], [1499–1504 c.], vdm: 543 [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 or before], vdm: 541 Cologne: Heinrich von Neuß, 1515, vdm: 542
Sachs, Klaus-Jürgen. Musiklehre im Studium der Artes: Die "Musica" (Köln 1507) des Johannes Cochläus. Vol. 1. Olms: Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 2015. (59-199)
Worstbrock, Franz Josef , ed. Deutscher Humanismus, 1480-1520: Verfasserlexikon, 2 volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009- (1:443)
Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (61, 10488)
imperfect: contains only part three (gatherings E anf F).
after scan
several marginals.
A-Wn
Extensive annotations from the early sixteenth century.
François-Joseph Fétis, 1784-1871. Napoléon I 1769-1821, Empereur des Français. Prov. ms. "Ex-bibliotheca Principis Napoleonis".
B-Br
imperfect: only part 1 and 2 (fol. A-D4) (after Sachs)
"In cantus choralis exercitium" is inserted between gathering B and gathering C.
Many misbound leaves.
[1.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540
[2.] In cantus choralis exercitium. [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 1572
In cantus choralis exercitium [Landen, 1507 c.] - D-Mbs
D-Mbs
imperfect: The copy is lacking the last gatherings E and F comprising the third part of the book. It is split into two halves, bound in reversed order (see Content of composite volume).
imperfect; from scan.
[1.] Virdung, Sebastian. Liure plaisant et tres utile pour apprendre a faire […]. Antwerp: Guillaume Vorsterman, 1529
[2.] Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio. Basel: Michael Furter, 1507, vdm: 361
[3.] Luscinius, Ottomarus. Musicae institutiones Othmari Nachtgall. [Strasbourg]: Johann Knoblouch, [1515].
[4.] Musicae choralis rudimenta. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1522, vdm: 527
[5.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540 (part 2 = gatherings C, D)
[6.] Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis. [Leipzig]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 649
[7.] In cantus choralis exercitium. [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 1572
[8.] Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio. Basel: Michael Furter, 1507, vdm: 361 (title page only)
[9.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540 (part 1 = gatherings A, B)
[10.] Iglesia Católica. Officium hebdomadae sanctae et paschatis. Passiones nouissime correcte et eme[n]date [música impresa]. [Paris]: [Jean Petit], [1522].
[11.] Collectanea utriusque cantus. Cologne: Anonymous, [1515], vdm: 432
Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis [Landen 1507] - E-Sco
In cantus choralis exercitium [Landen, 1507 c.] - E-Sco
Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae [Furter 1507] - E-Sco
Musicae choralis rudimenta [Quentell 1522] - E-Sco
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - E-Sco
heavily annotated throughout, with several additional music examples. Inserted leaves with contemporary annotations after A2, A4 , B2 and B4.
from the library of Ferdinand Columbus. Two numbers on the title page: .3022. and 11220 (in a box). It is unclear if the note on first opening (gathering C), left page (woodcut of doubleheaded crowned eagle), belongs to this copy or to the former copy. It reads: "Este libro costo 12 negmit en Bruselas a 26 de agosto de 1521 yel Ducado De oro vale 320 negmit."
Chapman, Catherine Weeks. “Printed Collections of Polyphonic Music Owned by Ferdinand Columbus.” JAMS 21 (1968): 34-84
Incomplete.
the copy includes interleaved sheets between fols. A2v and A3r, A4v and A5r, A6v and B1r, B1v and B2r, B2v and B3r, B4v and B5r, C3v and C4r, C4v and D1r, and before fol. C1r. The sheets are provided with handwritten annotations that may contain the writing of both a student and a teacher.
from scan.
[1.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings A, B)
[2.] In cantus choralis exercitium. [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 1572
[3.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings C, D)
[4.] Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis. [Leipzig]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 649
[5.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings E, F)
In cantus choralis exercitium [Landen, 1507 c.] - US-Wc
Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis [Landen 1507] - US-Wc
the gatherings A-D are heavily annotated by a contemporary scholar; the annotations include a number of musical examples which partly correspond with a sample given in E-Sco copy (see fols. B6r and C4v).
the copy belongs to the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection; the front paste-down contains a stamp "The gift of the Lessing J. Rosenwald to the library of congress" and the shelfmark R604. The title page of the first part ("Musica") is also provided with a stamp of the library of "Mr. de la Place de Mont-Evray".
Sachs, Klaus-Jürgen. Musiklehre im Studium der Artes: Die "Musica" (Köln 1507) des Johannes Cochläus. Vol. 1. Olms: Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 2015. (55, 340); Weiss, Susan Forscher. "Vandals, Students, or Scholars? Handwritten Clues in Renaissance Music Textbooks." In Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Russel E. Murray, Susan Forscher Weiss, and Cynthia J. Cyrus, 207-246. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. (246)
US-Wc