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Scaenica progymnasmata (a).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1514, vdm: 586

BASICS
Title page:

Joānis Reuch⸗||lin Phorcensis Scenica || Progymnasmata.Hoc || est. Ludicra preexer⸗||citamenta.|| Sebastianus. Brant.|| Accipe Vangionū presul venerāde/Ioannis || Capnionis nostri comica dulciloqui.|| Quo duce Germanos comedia prisca reuisit || Et meruit succis Rhenus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo/flāmas meꝰ ille decoras || Capnion elicuit. gracia multa viro.|| Multū docta cohors/multū cirrata iuuētus || Debet Capnioni. multa thalia meo.|| Nihil sine causa || OLPE ||

Colophon:

Impressū Liptzk ꝑ Valentinū Schumā. M.ccccc.xiiij.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Valentin Schumann
Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1514
Further information on dating: Taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
USTC 667853
VD16 R 1262
vdm
586
Further details:

The two variant editions have different line falls on the title pages.

Dedicatee:
Johann von Dalberg
Further contributors: Sebastian Brant; Johann Bergmann von Olpe
Paratexts:

A1r: Poem by Brant on title page
A1v: Reuerēdissimo Clarissimoq𝔷 in || Christo [...] (dedicatory letter by Bermann von Olpe)

Illustrations:

Title border made from five woodcut strips. The top strip shows a putto holding two shields with coat of arms one of which is the arms of Leipzig.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 93 x 161 mm (B1r)
Number of leaves:
12
Collation: A-B6.
Original foliation:

None

Autopsy copy:

D-Gs 8 P DRAM I, 2867

Online facsimile:

Scaenica progymnasmata [Schumann 1514]- D-HAu


D-HAu II c 1796, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda, Textura

Remarks on printing:

Textura is used as a display font. Rotunda is used for the dedicatory letter and for the epilogue.

Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
4
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-length staves: 89 x 13.5 mm (Mortalium, A5r); 98 x 12.5 mm (Digna, B1r); 122 x 13 mm (Musis, B2r); 123 x 13 mm (Cedant, B3v)

Comments on notation:

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While the first, third and fourth examples are given in white mensural notation, the second example is given in black semibreves and breves (probably to indicate the chorus' triple meter).

Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Four choruses: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia. Daniel Megel is named as a composer in the epilogue.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

D-HAu, *D-Gs

Related editions:

Scaenica progymnasmata.

[Strasbourg]: Johann Grüninger, 1498, vdm: 596


Scaenica progymnasmata phorcensis.

[Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73


Scaenica progymnasmata.

[Leipzig]: [Melchior Lotter the Elder], [1503 c.], vdm: 101


Scaenica progymnasmata.

[Leipzig]: [Martin Landsberg], [1504], vdm: 605


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77


Scaenica progymnasmata cum explanatione Iacobi Spiegel.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1512, vdm: 102


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1514, vdm: 75


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder & Hieronymus Vietor, 1514, vdm: 78


Scaenica progymnasmata (b).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, [1514], vdm: 590


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1515, vdm: 79


Scaenica progymnasmata (a).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 592


Scaenica progymnasmata (b).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 593


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1518, vdm: 607


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 611


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 613


Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 612


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Nickel Schmidt, 1521, vdm: 614


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1521, vdm: 615


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1521, vdm: 616


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder, 1523, vdm: 81


Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528, vdm: 617


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1534, vdm: 100


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1537, vdm: 82


Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1540, vdm: 83

Modern edition:

Holstein, Hugo: Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Lateinischen Schuldrama, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1888 (Nachdruck 1973).


D-HAu II c 1796, A5r
COPIES
D-HAu (Halle, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt)
Shelfmark: II c 1796
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Card
Provenance:

Bibliotheca Ponickaviana

Link to online scan:

Scaenica progymnasmata [Schumann 1514]- D-HAu

D-Gs (Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 8 P DRAM I, 2867
Condition:

Binding shows minor damage.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown sprinkled card binding.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some annotations (e. g. B1r).