vdm16 
Scaenica progymnasmata phorcensis.

[Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73

BASICS
Title page:

Ioannis Reuchlin Phor⸗||censis Scenica Progym⸗||nasmata:Hoc est: Ludicra || preexercitamenta.|| Sebastianus. Brant.|| Accipe Vangionum pręsul venerande/ Ioannis || Capnionis nostri comica dulciloqui.|| Quo duce Germanos comędia prisca reuisit:|| Et meruit soccis Rhęnus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo/ flāmas meus ille decoras || Capnion elicuit. gratia multa viro.|| Multum docta cohors/ multū cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni. multa thalia meo.|| 1 4 9 8.|| Nihil sine causa || Olpe ||

Colophon:

.1498.|| Nihil sine causa.|| OLPE||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Johann Bergmann von Olpe
Place of printing:

[Basel]

Year:
1498
Further information on dating: Taken from title page and colophon.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1738 / MM 1738
USTC 748527
GW M37879
ISTC ir00153600
vdm
73

Dedicatee:
Johann von Dalberg; Adam Werner
Further contributors: Valentin Helfant; Sebastian Brant; Jacob Trach; Johann Bergmann von Olpe
Paratexts:

A1r: Epigram by Sebastian Brant.
A1v: Letter of dedication to Johann von Dalberg, bishop of Worms, by Johann Bergmann von Olpe (Basel, 1 May 1498).
B3r: Acta ludis Februis: in ędibus principis & Reuerendi dñi Ioannis Camerarii: Dalburgii: Vangionum Episcopi: Heydelbergę. […] Modos fecit Daniel Megel: Iohannes Rychartzhuser recensuit. Pridie Kl’ Februarias: Anno .dñi. M:CCCC:XCVII.
B3r-v: speech given at first performance by Valentin Helfant.
B3v-4r: poem by Jacob Trach to Reuchlin.
B4v: poem to Johann Richartshausen by Adam Werner von Themar.


Language:

Latin

Format:
Printed area: 99 x 166 mm
Number of leaves:
12
Collation: A8, B4.
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs 4 Inc.c.a. 1542 n


Online facsimile:

D-W , D-Mbs


D-Mbs 4 Inc.c.a. 1542 n, a1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Textura, Antiqua (Roman), Uncial

Remarks on printing:

Textura used as display type. Uncial used as initial on title page. The text is set in Antiqua.


Notation:

Mensural notation

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

full-length staves: 100 x c. 13 mm (Mortalium, a4v); 100 x 12.5 mm (Digna, a6r); 120 x 13 mm (Musis, a7r); 119 x 13 mm (Cedant, a8v)

Comments on notation:

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While the first, third and fourth example are given in white mensural notation, the second example is given in black semibreves and breves (probably to indicate the choruses triple meter).


Genre:

dramatic chorus, example in theory book

Repertoire:

Four choruses: 1) Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2) Digne [sic] sunt Apolline; 3) Musis poetis et sacro; 4) Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel


Copies:

D-PFOsta, A-BRz, CH-Bu, CH-Bu, D-As, D-B, D-BNu, D-BREm, D-DEl, D-DS, D-FFs, D-HEu, D-KA, D-LEu, *D-Mbs, *D-Mu, D-Tu, D-W, D-WÜu, F-LANshal, F-Pn, F-Sn, F-Ssp, GB-Cfm, GB-Lbl, GB-Lbl, H-Ba, I-TSci, PL-WRu, RUS-Mrg, S-Sk, US-NYpm

Related editions:

Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


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 […] et Sergius.

Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528, vdm: 617


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



D-Mbs 4 Inc.c.a. 1542 n, a4v
COPIES
D-PFOsta (Pforzheim, Stadtarchiv)

A-BRz (Bregenz, Bibliothek der Zisterzienserabtei Wettingen-Mehrerau)

CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: FN VI 4g
Comments:

ohne Impressum


CH-Bu (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel)
Shelfmark: UBH DB V 16:2

D-As (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek)

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)

D-BNu (Bonn, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 10.3931/e-rara-12582

D-BREm (Bretten, Melanchthonhaus, Bibliothek)

D-DEl (Dessau, Anhaltische Landesbücherei, Abteilung Sondersammlungen )

D-DS (Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Inc.II-203

D-FFs (Frankfurt (Oder), Stadtarchiv)

D-HEu (Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: D 8431 Octav INC

D-KA (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 2 in PC 1399

D-LEu (Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, “Bibliotheca Albertina”)

D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4 Inc.c.a. 1542 n
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Cardboard
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Foliation (149-160) in red ink.

Provenance:

Distinctive foliation suggests that this copy was from a collected volume owned by Hartmann Schedel.

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs


D-Mu (München, Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Shelfmark: Inc. lat 837
Condition:

Good. Some worming. Remains of a leather tab.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown card binding with black spine. The composite volume with works of Johannes Reuchlin (different formats) seems to be a modern creation.
Content of composite volume:

All prints compiled in this composite volume are by Johannes Reuchlin.
[1] De arte predicandi. Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm 1508, VD16 R 1251
[2] Constantinus magnus. Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1513, VD16 C 4938
[3] Defensio Joannis Reuchlin. Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1514, VD16 R 1245
[4] Doctor Johannsen Reuchlins [...] warhafftige entschuldigung. Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, VD16 R 1306
[5] Joannis Reuchlin viri clarissimi. Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm, 1518, VD16 H 6415
[6] Scaenica progymnasmata. [Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73
[7] Scaenica progymnasmata.Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80
[8] Scaenica progymnasmata.Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77

Manuscript additions or corrections:

One line is crossed out by hand (a2v). Some further lines drawn between the names in the marginal an the text to indicate the incipits (a2v, a3r).

Provenance:

A handwritten owner's mark in the top left corner of the title page is illegible because of a sticker glued over it. Stamp of the Landshut University Library (predecessor of the Munich University Library that moved to Munich in 1826) on title page.


D-Tu (Tübingen, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 18 A 12044

D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 53 Quod. (2)
Link to online scan:

D-W


D-WÜu (Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek)

F-LANshal (Langres, Sociéte historique et archéologique de Langres (SHAL))

F-Pn (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)

F-Sn (Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire)

F-Ssp (Strasbourg, Bibliothèque du Séminaire Protestant)

GB-Cfm (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum)

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: 166.e.2/2 = IA.37955

GB-Lbl (London, British Library)
Shelfmark: Hirsch III.922 = IA.37955a

H-Ba (Budapest, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára)

I-TSci (Trieste, Biblioteca civica Attilio Hortis)

PL-WRu (Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka)

RUS-Mrg (Moskva, Rossijskaja Gosudarstvennaja biblioteka)
Comments:

Olim D-Dl


S-Sk (Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket (Royal Library))

US-NYpm (New York, NY, The Morgan Library & Museum)
Shelfmark: ChL1402D