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Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528, vdm: 617

BASICS
Title page:

❧ IOHAN||NIS REVCHLIN PHORCEN||sis LL. doctoris comœdiæ duæ, Sce||nica progymnasmata, hoc est, ludi⸗||cra præexercitamenta. Et: Sergius || uel Capitis caput.|| APVD SANCTAM VBIORVM || AGRIPPINAM || ANNO M. D. XXVIII ||

Colophon:

Comœdiarum Iohannis Reuchlin finis.|| Impensis integerrimi bibliopolæ || M.Godefridi Hittorpij ciuis || Coloniensis.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Eucharius Cervicornus
Publisher: Gottfried Hittorp
Printer's mark:

D6r: Three witches outdoors; above, the dove of the Holy Spirit holds a shield with the initials E[ucharius] C[ervicornus]. The scene is based on a design by Hans Baldung Grien.

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1528
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
USTC 667158
VD16 R 1278, R 1295
vdm
617
Further details:

This edition of Reuchlin’s play is the first containing polyphonic arrangements of the choruses, first encountered in the 1523 Vienna edition (vdm 81).

Illustrations:

Integral full-page title woodcut frame, showing Dionysius, Hercules (?) and Cleopatra.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 101 x 165 mm
Number of leaves:
20
Collation: A4, B6, C4, D6.
Autopsy copy:

GB-Ob Douce R 147 (1)

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman)

Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
3
Measurements:

Full-length staff: 102 x 9 mm.
Minim: c. 10 mm.

Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Four polyphonic choruses for three voices at the end of the first four acts:
1. Mortalium iucunditas (A4r)
2. Digna sunt Apolline (B2r)
3. Musis, poetis, & sacro (B3r)
4. Cedant fori contentio (B4v)

Copies:

F-Pm, *GB-Ob

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 (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.

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-Pm (Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine)
Shelfmark: 4° 10629-5 [Res]
GB-Ob (Oxford, Bodleian Library)
Shelfmark: Douce R 147 (1)
Condition:

Good

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Nineteenth-century binding, half-bound in brown leather with decorative paper boards.
Content of composite volume:

1. IOHANNIS || REVCHLIN PHORCEN||SIS SCAENICA PRO||GYMNASMA||TA, HOC EST || ludicra praeexercitamenta, cum || explanatione Iacobi Spiegel || Selestani. Caes. Secret.|| (Hagenau: Anshelm, 1519 [VD16 R 1270].
2. Scaenica progymnasmata […] et Sergius (Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528)