JOannis Röchlin Phorcēẜ.|| Scenica Progymnasmata:h̊ || est: Ludicra preexercitamēta || Sebastianus Brant.|| Accipe Vangionem pręsul venerande/Ioannis || Capnionis nostri comica dulciloqui.|| Quod duce Germanos comędia prisca reuisit:|| Et meruit soccis Rhęnus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo/stammas meus ille decoras || Capnion elicuit. gratia multa viro.|| Multum docta cohors/multum cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni.multa thalia meo.||

1498 (B4r), Ar||gentine opera & impensis Ioannis Grüninger. Kl'.|| Augusti Anni.&c.xcviij.|| (P4r).

rectangle woodcut with stylized lily, a circle with a star and letters inscribed; letters E. - F. and D.- V. on each side of a cross; all on black ground (P6r).

[Strasbourg]

Humanist book

Part of Sebastian Brant’s Varia carmina. The Scaenica have a separate title page and start with a new collation; therefore, vdm considers them as a separate entity. The various parts of this collection were printed together, as is demonstrated by the fact that the title page of the next part, De corrupto ordine, is on the verso of the last folio of this part (B4v) and has a continuous collation. The copy with in D-W the shelfmark M- Li 826 does not contain the Reuchlin, just Sebastian Brant’s Varia Carmina. The edition GW 5068 of Brant's Carmina does not contain Reuchlin's play.

A1v: Reuerendissimo clarissimo q𝔷 || In christo patri & domino : Dño Ioanni Cameratio || Dalburgio: Vangionū aut Varmacieñ Antistiti Prin||cipiq𝔷 pientissimo : domino suo Clęmentissimo Ioan.|| Bergmann De Olpe Archidiaconus Grandisuallis. cū || humili commendatione obedientiam.|| (dedicatory letter for the Scaenica progymnasmata to Johann von Dalberg)
B2v-B3r: List of actors who participated in a performance of the play in February 1497.
B3r: Postea vero q̃𝔷 Episcopus [...] (letter of thanks by Valentin Helfant)
B3v: Jacobi dracontij premōstra||tensis. Ad Iuuentutem Germanicam [...] (poem by Jakob Trach)
B4r: Ad insignem virū magistrū Ioannem Richartzhusen [...] (poem by Adam Werner von Themar)

On P4r-P6r (end of 'De corrupto ordine') there is an index sorted by gathering that lists the contents of the 'Varia carmina', the 'Scaenica' and the 'De corrupto ordine'

Latin

D-Mbs 4 Inc.c.a. 1479

D-Mbs

woodcut

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

The text is set in Antiqua. Rotunda is used as a display font. The melodies of four choruses are given in single four line staff systems. The text for those choruses is given below the musical notation. The quality of the woodcuts used for the notation is quite poor. Space has been left for a number of initials (about two lines of text high) and small placeholder initials have been printed in these areas. In D-Mbs 4 Inc.c.a. 1479, a user has added larger initials by hand in red ink.

Mensural notation

full-length staves: 83 x 13 mm (Mortalium, A4r); 83 x 12,5 mm (Digna, A5r); 100 x 12.5 mm (Musis, A6r); 99.5 x 12.5 mm (Cedant, B1r)

The melodies of four choruses of the play 'Scenia progymnasmata' are given in basic mensural notation consisting of semibreves and breves at the end of a phrase (A4r, A5r, A6r, B1r). The chorus that is intended to be sung in a triple meter is given in coloured mensural notation (A5r).

dramatic chorus

Four choruses at the end of the first four acts:
1. Mortalium iocunditas (A4r)
2. Digna sunt apolline (A5r)
3. Musis, poetis, & sacruo (A6r)
4. Cedant fori contentio (B1r)

Daniel Megel

A-Gu, A-KR, A-LIKpu, A-Llb, A-SB, A-Su, *A-Wn, B-Amp, *CH-Zz, CZ-LKzk, CZ-Pu, D-As, D-As, D-B, D-BAs, D-BAs, D-BAs, D-DI, D-ERu, *D-F, *D-HVl, D-Ju, D-LEu, *D-Mbs, *D-Mu, D-NOk, D-Sl, D-TRsb, D-WRz, D-WÜu, D-WÜu, D-WÜu, D-Z, DK-Kk, F-DOU, F-Sn, GB-BSw, GB-Ctc, *GB-Lbl, GB-Lwl, GB-Mr, GB-Oas, H-Kf, *PL-Kj, PL-Pu, RUS-Mrg, RUS-Mrg, RUS-SPsc, RUS-SPsc, S-Sk, S-Uu, US-CA, US-NH, US-PHf, V-CVbav

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