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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 611

BASICS
Title page:

IOAN. REVCH-||LIN PHORCENSIS SCAENICA || PROGYMNASMATA, HOC || EST LVDICRA PRAE-||EXERCITAMEN-||TA.|| SEBASTIANVS BRANT.|| Accipe Vangionum præsul uenerande Ioannis || Capnionis nostri comica dulciloqui.|| Quo duce Germanos comœdia prisca reuisit,|| Et meruit soccis Rhenus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo flammas meus ille decoras,|| Capnion elicuit, gratia multa uiro || Multum docta cohors, multu cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni, multa thalia meo.||

Colophon:

¶ Coloniæ in ædibus Eucharij Ceruicorni,|| Anno uirginei partus. M. D. XIX || mense Ianuario.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Eucharius Cervicornus
Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1519
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
USTC 667312
VD16 R 1271
vdm
611
Dedicatee:
Johann Bergmann von Olpe
Further contributors: Sebastian Brant
Paratexts:

A1v: Dedicatory poem by Sebastian Brant.
A1v: dedication letter, dated “Ex Basilæa Calen. Maij Anno Christi. M.CCCC.xcviij.”
C3v-C4r: description of the performance

Comments on paratexts:

C3v-C4r: Acta ludis Februis [sic] in edibus Illustris Principis & Reuerendi domini Ioannis Camerarij Dalburgij, Vangonium episcopi, [name of the actors, Modos fecit Daniel Megel], “cal. Februarias Anno domini millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoseptimo.”

Illustrations:

C4r: oblong woodcut St George slaying the dragon in a landscape with a castle in the background, with architectural frame (printed very faintly).
C4v: woodcut Lucretia stabbing herself, in her bare breast, in architectural frame between two columns, with inscription “.LVCRECIA.”

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 96 x 160 mm
Number of leaves:
12
Collation: A-C4.
Autopsy copy:

F-Pn RES M-YC-1018

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Textura

Remarks on printing:

Textura for titles of acts.

Notation:

Mensural notation

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

staves:
Mortalium: 95 x 15.5 mm
Digna: 96 x 15.5 mm
Musis: 112 x 15.5 mm
Cedant: 110 x 15.5 mm

Genre:

dramatic chorus, monophonic song

Repertoire:

Four choruses at the ends of acts 1 to 4: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; Digna sunt Apolline; Musis poetis et sacro; Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.

Copies:

*F-Pn

Related editions:

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Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80


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Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 613


Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

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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

COPIES
F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Shelfmark: RES M-YC-1018
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Nineteenth-century dark brown marbled cardboard.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some Latin glosses in the margins and between the lines, in a German hand of the early sixteenth century.