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Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis.

[Leipzig]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 649

BASICS
Title page:

Compendium in praxim atq𝔷 exercitiū cantus figura⸗||bilis accōmodatissimū Eiusdē Mgr̃i iohan. wendelstein || pro maiore auditorum vtilate ceteris adiectum.||
[…]

Author:
Johannes Cochlaeus
Printer:
[Johann Landen]
Place of printing:

[Leipzig]

Year:
[1507 c.]
Further information on dating: deduced from Cochlaeus' Musica print of 1507 (vdm 540) where the only extant copy E-Sco 12-1-23 is inserted.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 226
vdm
649
Further details:

Place of printing and printer supplied from Worstbrock (2009-) 1:443.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 107 x 151 mm
Number of leaves:
4
Collation: [A4]
Autopsy copy:

E-Sco 12-1-23(5) (from scan)

Online facsimile:

US-Wc


US-Wc ML171 .C62, [A1]r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Rotunda, Uncial

Remarks on printing:

Uncial fonts are used for initials. The music examples are printed in rough woodcuts.

Notation:

Mensural notation

Number of staff lines:
4
Number of voices:
1
Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

14 chapters on ligatures, rests, additional signs, notes, tactus and a short instruction how to sing; with music examples.

Copies:

*E-Sco, *US-Wc

Modern edition:

Sachs, Klaus-Jürgen. Musiklehre im Studium der Artes: Die "Musica" (Köln 1507) des Johannes Cochläus. Vol. 1. Olms: Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 2015. (222-243)

Secondary literature:

Worstbrock‪, Franz Josef , ed. Deutscher Humanismus, 1480-1520: Verfasserlexikon, 2 volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009- (1:443)


US-Wc ML171 .C62, [A3]r
COPIES
E-Sco (Seville, Institución Colombina, Archivo de la Catedral, Sección de Música)
Shelfmark: 12-1-23(5)
Condition:

inserted in the 1507 edition of Cochlaues' "Musica" between gatherings D and A, alongside with the 1507 edition of Cochlaues' "In cantus choralis exercitium".

Comments:

described from scan.

Classification of binding:
undefined / undefinable
Description of binding: no information
Content of composite volume:

[1.] Virdung, Sebastian. Liure plaisant et tres utile pour apprendre a faire […]. Antwerp: Guillaume Vorsterman, 1529
[2.] Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio. Basel: Michael Furter, 1507, vdm: 361
[3.] Luscinius, Ottomarus. Musicae institutiones Othmari Nachtgall. [Strasbourg]: Johann Knoblouch, [1515].
[4.] Musicae choralis rudimenta. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1522, vdm: 527
[5.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540 (part 2 = gatherings C, D)
[6.] Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis. [Leipzig]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 649
[7.] In cantus choralis exercitium. [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 1572
[8.] Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio. Basel: Michael Furter, 1507, vdm: 361 (title page only)
[9.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 540 (part 1 = gatherings A, B)
[10.] Iglesia Católica. Officium hebdomadae sanctae et paschatis. Passiones nouissime correcte et eme[n]date [música impresa]. [Paris]: [Jean Petit], [1522].
[11.] Collectanea utriusque cantus. Cologne: Anonymous, [1515], vdm: 432

Bound with copies from vdm:

Musica [Landen 1507] - E-Sco
In cantus choralis exercitium [Landen, 1507 c.] - E-Sco
Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae [Furter 1507] - E-Sco
Musicae choralis rudimenta [Quentell 1522] - E-Sco
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - E-Sco

Manuscript additions or corrections:

annotations on the margins on [A1r] and [A2v], also with music notation.

Provenance:

from the library of Ferdinand Columbus.

Secondary literature:

Chapman, Catherine Weeks. “Printed Collections of Polyphonic Music Owned by Ferdinand Columbus.” JAMS 21 (1968): 34-84

US-Wc (Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Music Division)
Shelfmark: ML171 .C62
Condition:

inserted in the 1507 edition of Cochlaues' "Musica" between gatherings D and F.

Comments:

described from scan.

Classification of binding:
undefined / undefinable
Description of binding: no information
Content of composite volume:

[1.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings A, B)
[2.] In cantus choralis exercitium. [Cologne]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 1572
[3.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings C, D)
[4.] Compendium in praxim atque exercitium cantus figurabilis. [Leipzig]: [Johann Landen], [1507 c.], vdm: 649
[5.] Musica. Cologne: Johann Landen, 1507, vdm: 504 (gatherings E, F)

Bound with copies from vdm:

Musica [Landen 1507] - US-Wc
In cantus choralis exercitium [Landen, 1507 c.] - US-Wc

Manuscript additions or corrections:

fol. A2v is annotated by a contemporary scholar.

Provenance:

the copy belongs to the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection; the front paste-down contains a stamp "The gift of the Lessing J. Rosenwald to the library of congress" and the shelfmark R604. The title page of the first part ("Musica") is also provided with a stamp of the library of "Mr. de la Place de Mont-Evray".

Secondary literature:

Sachs, Klaus-Jürgen. Musiklehre im Studium der Artes: Die "Musica" (Köln 1507) des Johannes Cochläus. Vol. 1. Olms: Hildesheim, Zürich, New York 2015. (55-56)

Link to online scan:

US-Wc