O fœlix Colonia || ❧ IOAN·|| REVCHLIN PHORCEN||sis.LL.doctoris comœdiæ duæ,|| SCAENICA PROGYM||nasmata, hoc est, ludicra præex-||ercitamenta, Et || SERGIVS VEL CAPI||tis caput.||

¶ Coloniae in ædibus Eucharij Ceruicorni,|| Anno uirginei partus. M. D.|| XIX. mense Maio.||

Cologne

Humanist book

This edition contains two humanistic plays by Reuchlin, only the first of which has musical notation.

D5v-D6r: IACOBI DRACONTII IN IOAN-||nis Reuchlin Forcensis comœdias comendatio.|| (poem)

Integral title page woodcut that shows the coat of arms of Cologne (three crowns and flames), architectural and floral elements, as well as two horse heads and the head of a putto in the top section (121 x 181 mm).

Latin

None

D-KNu GB IV4550

woodcut

Antiqua (Roman), Textura

Textura is used as a display font (titles of the acts) and the remaining text is printed in Antiqua. Cervicornus appears to have used the same woodblocks as vdm 611 to print the music. The quality of the musical notation is quite low. The first woodcut is especially poor; its notation is nearly illegible.

Mensural notation

full-length staves: 95 x 15.5 mm (Mortalium, A4r); 95.5 x 15.5 mm (Digna, A6r); 112 x 16 mm (Musis, A7r); 110 x 16 mm (Cedant, A8v)

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. 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 choruses triple meter). The second comoedia starting on B4r does not give any musical notation.

dramatic chorus

Chorus at the end of each of the first four acts: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula (A4r), Digna sunt Apolline (A5v), Musis poetis et sacro (A6v), Cedant fori contentio et iurgia (B2r).

Daniel Megel

D-DÜl, D-Gs, *D-KNu

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