.1.5.2.3.|| Ain schone || kunstliche vnder=||weisung in disem || büechlein / leychtlich zu be⸗||greyffen den rechten grūd || zu lernen auff der Lautten || vnd Geygen / mit vleiß ge⸗||macht dürch Hans Juden||künig / pirtig von Schwebischen Gmünd Lutenist /|| yetz zu Wieñ in Osterreich.||
[II:] Item das ander puechlein zuuer-||nemen. darinnen du vnderrichtt || wierdest / den gesang zůuersteen was ayn yedliche || noten oder pawß bedeüt / […]

Vollendet vnd getrückht zu Wieñ yn Osterreich || dürch Hanns Singryener. im .1.5.2.3. Jar. (fol. l4r)

Vienna

Tablature book

introductions for playing the lute interspersed throughout the volume; second part introduced with separate title page

All the illustrations are executed in woodcut (also found in Utilis et compendiaria introductio, vdm 70). Framed titlepage with a columns on each side, an arch on the top and a heraldic arms on the bottom (letters H and I).
[ai]r: lutenist and gambist with inscription: HANS IVDEN.KI||NIG.BIRTIG.VON.S. || G. LVTENIST. I. Z. W.
aijv: [Aiijr]: the fingers of the hand and the letter-names of the frets on the lute.

High German

A-Wn MS47356-4

D-Mbs, A-Wn, US-Wc

single impression; woodcut

Schwabacher, Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

The tablature is printed from type, including the flags, using a combination of Roman and Schwabacher type. However, the time signatures and an overview of mensuras (table of rhythmical signs) are printed from woodcut.

Tablature (lute: German)

music for lute or other plucked instruments, German Lied setting (Tenorlied), motet, ode setting

Thirty-three intabulations by Judenkünig (fifteen German songs, dances, „Tota pulchra“, one ode setting), all for solo lute. Composer names only through concordances: Georg Vogelhuber, Wolfgang Grefinger, Petrus Tritonius, Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer, Benedictus Ducis, Sixt Dietrich, Pierre de la Rue, Jacob Obrecht and Hans Judenkünig.

A-Wgm, *A-Wn, B-Br, CZ-Bm, CZ-Bu, D-Mbs, US-Wc

Koczirz, Adolf. “Der Lautenist Hans Judenkünig.” Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 6 (1905), 237–249.
Weser, Rudolf. “Hans Judenkönig von Gmünd Lautenmeister,” Gmünder Heimatblätter 8 (1935), 2–5, 17–20.