vdm16

Musica.

[Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 or before], vdm: 541

BASICS

Title page:

Musica.||

Author:

Johannes Cochlaeus

Printer:

[Johann Landen]

Place of printing:

[Cologne]

Year:

[1507 or before]

Further information on dating: The annotation on fol. C6v of the copy in D-LEu (“Dono dedit quidam baccalaureus [?] tunc temporis migrandus .Mdvij”) suggests that the present edition is not later than 1507. The fact that it is shorter than vdm16 540 suggests that it probably predates it.

Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:

RISM B/6 p. 227

USTC 676529

VD16 ZV 3722

vdm

541

Further details:

This edition is shorter than the edition of Cochlaeus’ “Musica” which was produced by the same printer in 1507 (vdm 540). The present edition uses the same type and woodcuts as vdm 540, but vdm 540 has been reset.

Comments on paratexts:

no introduction, starts with hexachord system (A1v) and „De definitione Musice“ (A2r)

Language:

Latin

Format:

4º

Printed area: 106 x 148 mm

Number of leaves:

Collation: A-C6.

Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs Mus. Th. 282

Online facsimile:

D-LEu, D-Mbs

D-Mbs Mus. Th. 282, A1r

DETAILS

Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Uncial, Rotunda

Notation:

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:

2, 3, 4, 5, 10

Number of voices:

1, 2, 3

Measurements:

first example (de vocum mutatione, A2v: C faut etc.): 97 x 9.5 mm

Comments on notation:

Hufnagel notation on two to five lines, mensural notation also on four lines. A diagram illustrating the consonances from unison to twentieth is on ten lines.

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Three parts: musica plana, musica mensurabilis, „De contrapuncto & eius elementis“.

Copies:

*D-LEu, D-Mbs, F-Pn

Copies in historical catalogues:

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein).

Related editions:

Musica.

[Nuremberg]: [Anonymous], [1499–1504 c.], vdm: 543

Musica.

Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540

Musica.

Cologne: Heinrich von Neuß, 1515, vdm: 542

Secondary literature:

Worstbrock‪, Franz Josef , ed. Deutscher Humanismus, 1480-1520: Verfasserlexikon, 2 volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009- (1:443)
Riemann, Hugo. “Anonymi introductorium musicae (c. 1500.) nach dem Unicum der Leipziger Universitätsbibliothek.” Montashefte für Musikgeschichte 29 (1897): 147-154, 157-64; 30 (1898), 1-8, 11-19
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 97)

D-Mbs Mus. Th. 282, A2v

COPIES

D-LEu (Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, “Bibliotheca Albertina”)

Shelfmark: Libri.sep.A.2032

Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:

later / modern binding

Description of binding: Marbled boards, nineteenth/twentieth century

Provenance:

Inscription on C6v: “Dono dedit quidam baccalaureus [?] tunc temporis migrandus .Mdvij.”

Link to online scan:

D-LEu

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Shelfmark: Mus.th. 8 282

Manuscript additions or corrections:

A1r: “Constat 31 ꝝ”

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs

F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Shelfmark: Rés. 723b

Comments:

online catalogue: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb449036824