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Tabulatur auff die Laudten.

Nuremberg: Hieronymus Formschneider, 1533, vdm: 68

BASICS
Title page:

Tabulatur auff die Laudten etli||cher Preambel, Teutscher / Wel||scher und Francösischer stück/ von Liedlein/ Muteten/|| und schönen Psalmen/ mit drey und vier stym||men/ Durch Hanns Gerle Luttinisten, Burger und Lauttenma=||cher zu Nürenberg/ ordenlich gesetzt/und in Truck || gegeben, Jm M.D.XXXIII.Jar.|| Mit Röm. Kaiserlicher und Kün. Mai. Freiheyt begnadet, in vier jaren nit || nach zu trücken, Bey straff und peen zehen Marck lötigs goldes.||

Colophon:

Gedruckt zu Nürenberg durch || Jeronymum Form=||schneider. M.D.XXXIII.

Author:
Hans Gerle
Editor: Hans Gerle
Printer:
Hieronymus Formschneider
Place of printing:

Nuremberg

Year:
1533
Further information on dating: from title page
Type of source:

Tablature book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 G 1623 / GG 1623 
USTC 695842
VD16 G 1578
vdm
68
Privilege:

Mit Röm. Kaiserlicher und Kün. Mai. Freiheyt begnadet, in vier jaren nit nach zu trücken, Bey straff und peen zehen Marck lötigs goldes. (title page)

Paratexts:

2r-v: Preface (“Vorrede einer underrichtung”).
1v: Index of pieces (“Register”).

Illustrations:

Title placed within an ornamental border containing the initials “H.G” and the date 1530. This same title border appears in Musica Teusch (1532, vdm 66).

Language:

High German

Format:
4º oblong
Printed area: 155 x 106 mm
Number of leaves:
96
Collation: A-Z4, a4.
Original foliation:

I-IIII, IIII, V-XXXI, XXXI, XXXII-XCIIII

Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl Hirsch IV 1604

Online facsimile:

D-B


D-B Mus.ant.pract. G 435, A1r

D-B Mus.ant.pract. G 435, a4v
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

single impression

Text font:

Fraktur

Remarks on printing:

lute tabulature printed from type
prints with one piece of type to show note value, underneath with text type for position
the type for the note values seems to be the same used in Gerle, Musica teusch, 1532.

Notation:

Tablature (lute: German)

Measurements:

neat type to show note value 4.3 mm high

Genre:

music for lute or other plucked instruments

Repertoire:

Preludes and intabulations of chorales, popular and courtly Lieder (twenty-one German Lied settings), chansons and motets. For an index of the pieces, see Brown, pp. 42-43.

Named composers:

Josquin des Prez; Heinrich Isaac; Jacob Obrecht; Claudin de Sermisy; Adriaen Willaert; Jean Mouton; Ludwig Senfl; Hayne van Ghizeghem; Arnold von Bruck; Lupus Hellinck; Wilhelm Breitengraser; Claudin de Sermisy

Copies:

D-B, GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was held in the city library of Utrecht; see Bibliothecae Traiectinae catalogus (1608), Qq1v.

Secondary literature:

Bibliothecae Traiectinae catalogus. Utrecht: Salomon Rhodius, 1608. (Qq1v)


D-B Mus.ant.pract. G 435, A3v

D-B Mus.ant.pract. G 435, A1v
COPIES
D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus.ant.pract. G 435
Link to online scan:

D-B

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: Hirsch IV 1604
Description of binding: contemporary brown leather binding with Rollenstempel
Content of composite volume:

Bound with: Gerle, Musica Teutsch, 1532

Bound with copies from vdm:

Musica teusch, auf die Instrument der grossen und kleinen Geygen, auch Lauten [Formschneider 1532] - GB-Lbl (2)

Provenance:

on inside of first folio various inscriptions from 1535, 1544;
TLVD; V TrapptS?

W.G.S.G. pavl v. spavn

W.G.S.G. 1545 Paul v. Spaun;

1538

Tu mihi sola [...]
Lauten Buch ? grossen unnd ? instrumenten?

Further inscription from 1573 on back fly leaf

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Partbooks present:

title page missing