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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588

BASICS
Title page:

Joannis Reuchlin Phorcen||sis ScÄ™nica Progymnasmata, Hoc est || Ludicra præexercitamenta || SEBASTIANVS BRANT.|| Accipe Vangionum prÄ™sul venerande, Ioannis || Capnionis nostri Comica dulciloqui || Quod [sic] duce Germanos comœdia prisca reuisit || Et meruit soccis Rhenus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo, flammas meus ille decoras || Capnion elicuit, gratia multa viro.|| Multum docta cohors, multum cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni, multa thalia meo.||

Colophon:

Phorce in ędibus Thomę || Anshelmi. Anno. M.D. viij.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Editor: Johannes Richartshusen
Printer:
Thomas Anshelm
Place of printing:

Pforzheim

Year:
1508
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1739
USTC 669282
VD16 R 1256
vdm
588

Dedicatee:
Johann von Dalberg
Further contributors: Sebastian Brant; Valentin Helfant; Jacob Trach; Adam Werner
Paratexts:

a1r: Sebastianus Brant. Accipe Vangionum […] (laudatory poem).
b4r-v: Iacobi Dracontij premonstratensis, Ad iuuentutem germanicam in Ioannem Reuchlin Phorcensem, prÄ™ceptorem suum, quod primus & solus inter germanos Comœdie sit auctor panegyris. (laudatory poem).
b4v: Ad insignem virum magistrum Ioannem Richartzhusen, recensorem ComœdiÄ™ nouÄ™ Ioannis Reuchlin Carmen AdÄ™ Vuernheri Temarensis. (laudatory poem).


Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 100.5 x 133.5 mm
Number of leaves:
10
Collation: a6, b4.
Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl 1342.l.21.(1.)


Online facsimile:

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


D-Mbs Res. 4 P.o.lat. 756, 22, a1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda, Uncial

Remarks on printing:

Four choruses, of one line of woodcut melody each. The text is set (in type) in a block (Digna sunt apolline in two columns) beneath each melody.
Rotunda is used as a display type.
Types 3, 7, 8 (Proctor).


Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

woodcut on a4r: 95 x 18 mm; woodcut on a5v: 93 x 18 mm; woodcut on a6r: 109.5 x 18.5 mm; woodcut on b1v: 109.5 x 18 mm.

Comments on notation:

Digna sunt Apolline is set in black notes.


Genre:

dramatic chorus, monophonic song

Repertoire:

Four choruses: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; Digna sunt Apolline; Musis poetis et sacro; Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel


Copies:

A-Su, *CH-Zz, D-B, D-HEu, D-Mbs, D-Mbs, D-W, D-W, D-W, *GB-Lbl, RUS-Mrg, US-Cn, US-LEX, *US-SM

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, 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 (a).

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1514, vdm: 586


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).

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 (154, 11767)


D-Mbs Res. 4 P.o.lat. 756, 22, a4r
COPIES
A-Su (Salzburg, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: F I 163/4
Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: White pigskin over oak boards; clasps intact. Blind- and rollstamping.
Content of composite volume:

1. Speculum stultorum (Paris: Jean Petit, 1506)
2. In hoc libello, Amice Lector, iam primum in || lucem edita continentur.|| ISOCRATIS, DE REGNO GVBERNANDO || ad Nicoclem liber, a Martino Philetico interprete || ... || Quintii Haemiliani Cimpriaci Poetae, & Comitis Palatini,|| Epicoedion Tetracolon in diuum Fride.III. Impe.|| ad MAXimilianum Ro.Regem, cÅ© Epistola || liminari Iacobi Spiegel, ... || Aloisii Marliani Mediolanen. ad lacobÅ© de Bannissis Caes.|| SecretariÅ©, Epistola ... qua Calamitosa || Philippi Hispaniae regis, in Hispaniam naui=||gatio graphice describit̃ ... || Ioachimi Vadiani Heluetij de sancto Gallo Carmen, Maxi=||morum Caesarum Friderici. Ill.patris & Filij MAxi=||miliani, laudes cõtinẽs. Anno.M.D.XIII, in se=||cundaria Friderici sepultura & parentatõe || emissum, ... cÅ© || eiusdem Epistola ad Reuerendum.|| Episcopum vienneñ.|| Iacobi Wimphelingij Selestẽsis, ad Iacobum Spiegel ex so=||rore nepotem expurgatio contra detractores. cum || Epistola Ia.Spiegel. ad Do.petrum de motta || Theologum || Epithaphium Rudolphi Episcopi Herbipolensis.|| (Straßburg: Johannes Prüß the Younger, 1514) [VD16 I 522 / A 327 / M 1028 / V 15 / W 3328]
3. HEVS LECTOR NOVARVM || RERVM STVDIOSE,|| HIC HABENTVR.|| De fortuna Francisci Marchionis Mantuae,|| F.Baptistae Mantuani Cramẽ elegãtissimÅ©.|| ... Epistola Elegiaca Fausti Andrelini, qua Anna || Franciae regina, Ludouicum Franciae regẽ maritÅ© || suum, post subactos Venetos, ad se reuocat.|| ANtonij Syluioli Parisiensis CHILIAS, de tri||umphali ... Francorum regis || Ludouici Duodecimi in Venetos victoria.|| Petri de ponte Brugensis Caeci, de || abitu & reditu pacis Carmen.|| ... Domini Zachariae abbatis ad Venetos Elegia'|| de dominio eorum breui diruendo,|| […].|| (Strasbourg: Schürer, 1510) [VD16 S 7282 / A 2774 / B 8457 /F 1855]
4. Richardus de nuptijs || cum Guilhelmi Ra=||mesei Sagieñ. com=||mentario familiari ([n. p.]: [n. p.], [n. d.]).
5. Joannis Reuchlin Phorcen||sis ScÄ™nica Progymnasmata […] (Pforzheim: Anshelm, 1508)


CH-Zz (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: 18.293,7
Condition:

Sammelband composed in the nineteenth century; the books are different sizes and the writing on the fore-edges of some show that they were earlier removed from other Sammelbände.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Nineteenth century card, with stamp of the Zentralbibliothek on front cover.
Content of composite volume:

1. Iacobi de paradi=||so Theologi doctissimi:ordinis Car||thusieñ.de animabus a corpo||ribus exutis Tractatus cõ||pendiose ac studiose || collectus. (Basel : Wolff, Thomas, 1521; VD16 J 110)
2. DJui Romani || herois et Christi marty||ris fortissimi inclytÅ© aduersus || gentiles certamen ab Aurelio Prudentio Clemẽte viro consulari || et poeta preclaro nobili carmine compositÅ©. in quo omnia deorÅ© sa||cra et paganorum mores acerrime infamantur ac redarguuntur.|| Cum Joannis murmellij Ruremundensis commentario varijs || rebus vocibusque referto. (Köln : Quentel, Heinrich (Erben), 1507; VD16 P 5138)
3. SErmones con||uiuales Cõradi peu||tingeri: de mirandis || Germanie antiqui=||tatibus. (Straßburg : Prüß, Johann d.Ä., 1506; VD16 P 2081)
4. Francisci Philelphi poete laure||ati & oratoris clarissimi de educatione libero||rum,claris#[que] eorum moribus opus saluberri||mum,in quo omnis bene beateque uiuendi || disciplina ... ac || diuinae philosophorum theologo||rumque sententiae com||periuntur. (Tübingen : Anshelm, Thomas, 1513; VD16 V 477)
5. Bracciolini, Poggio, Facetiae (Basel, 1488)
6. ANGELI || Politiani Sylua, cui titulus || est Rusticus, cÅ© docta ele-||gãtissimáque Nicolai Beral/|| di interpretatione. (Basel : Froben, Johann, 1518; VD16 P 4002)
7. Joannis Reuchlin Phorcen||sis ScÄ™nica Progymnasmata. (Tübingen: Anshelm, 1508; VD16 R 1256)
8. CAESA=||RES || GERMANICI || DESCRIPTI A || GEORGIO SABINO. (Wittenberg : Rhau, Georg, 1532; VD16 S 80)
9. RICARDI SBRVLII FOROIVLIANI || POETAE CAESAREI || in principes epigrammata (n.p.: n.p., n.d. [c. 1519]; not in VD16)
10. CICADAE || ENCOMIVM.|| Sebastiano Sigmario || Authore. (Nürnberg : Petreius, Johann, 1540; VD16 S 6428)
11. STRABI/ GALLI POETAE ET THEO/||LOGI DOCTISSIMI: AD GRIMAL/||DVM COENOBII. S. GALLI || ABBATEM HORTV/||LVS. (Wien : Vietor, Hieronymus, 1510; VD16 W 769)
12. ARBOGASTI STRVB GLARONESII ORA/||tiones duae/ quas dum in humanis fuit habuit (Wien : Vietor, Hieronymus : Singriener, Johann d.Ä., 1511; VD16 ZV 14766)
13. Veggio, Maffeo. Philathethes. ([Basel] : [Michael Furter] [not after 1492])
14. Somniorum Jnter||pretatio Luculentissima. (Straßburg : Hupfuff, Matthias, 1506; VD16 S 7007)
15. MARGARITA FACETIARVM || Alfonsi Aragonum Regis Vafredicta [v.Antonio degli Beccadelli]|| Prouerbia Sigismundi & Friderici tertij Ro.Imp̃atorÅ©.|| Scomata Ioannis Keisersberg cõcionatoris Argẽtinẽsis || Marsilij Ficini Florentini de Sole opusculum.|| Hermolai Barbari Orationes.|| Facetie Adelphine. (Straßburg : Grüninger, Johann, 1508; VD16 A 232)
16. HEVS LECTOR NOVARVM || RERVM STVDIOSE,|| HIC HABENTVR.|| De fortuna Francisci Marchionis Mantuae […]. (Straßburg : Schürer, Matthias, 1510; VD16 S 7282)

Manuscript additions or corrections:

On title page: patere & abstine.


D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: 3 in Inc. 2070
Manuscript additions or corrections:

music example on a4r: Notes of the first half (before the repetition sign) coloured in orange.

Link to online scan:

D-B


D-HEu (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek)

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4 L.impr.c.n.mss. 1023#Beibd.16
Manuscript additions or corrections:

music example on a4r: Semibreve on a added between the first and the second note after the repetition sign.

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs (1)


D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Res. 4 P.o.lat. 756, 22
Manuscript additions or corrections:

music example on a4r: Semibreve on g added between 5th and 6th note after the repetition sign, partially erased.

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs (2)


D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 24.1 Pol. (2)

D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 67.5 Poet. (b)

D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 67.5 Poet. (b)

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: 1342.l.21.(1.)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Parts of earlier binding visible; leather over wood and linen. The title and date are printed on the spine, but are only partly legible.
Content of composite volume:

Bound with Joannis Reuchlin Phor||censis Sergius uel Capitis caput || cum cõmentario Georgij || Simler Vuimpinẽsis.||(Pfrozheim: Anshelm, 1508).

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some rubrication.

Provenance:

On inside of binding: James Boswell 1821. Stamp from Bibliotheca Heberiana.


RUS-Mrg (Moskva, Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja biblioteka)
Shelfmark: 50-6395275

US-Cn (Chicago, IL, The Newberry Library)

US-LEX (Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky, Margaret I. King Library)
Shelfmark: PA8570.R5 S340 1508

US-SM (San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery)
Shelfmark: Rare Books 143818
Condition:

good

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: darkblue cardboard