[Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73
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 ||
.1498.|| Nihil sine causa.|| OLPE||
[Basel]
Humanist book
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.
Latin
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woodcut
Textura, Antiqua (Roman), Uncial
Textura used as display type. Uncial used as initial on title page. The text is set in Antiqua.
Mensural notation
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)
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).
dramatic chorus, example in theory book
Four choruses: 1) Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2) Digne [sic] sunt Apolline; 3) Musis poetis et sacro; 4) Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.
Daniel Megel
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
[Strasbourg]: Johann Grüninger, 1498, vdm: 596 [Leipzig]: [Melchior Lotter the Elder], [1503 c.], vdm: 101 [Leipzig]: [Martin Landsberg], [1504], vdm: 605 Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588 Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76 Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77 Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1512, vdm: 102 Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1514, vdm: 75 Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder & Hieronymus Vietor, 1514, vdm: 78 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1514, vdm: 586 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, [1514], vdm: 590 Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1515, vdm: 79 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 592 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1515, vdm: 593 Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1518, vdm: 607 Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 611 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1519, vdm: 613 Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1519, vdm: 612 Leipzig: Nickel Schmidt, 1521, vdm: 614 Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1521, vdm: 615 Leipzig: Jacob Thanner, 1521, vdm: 616 Vienna: Johann Singriener the Elder, 1523, vdm: 81 Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, 1528, vdm: 617 Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1534, vdm: 100 Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1537, vdm: 82 Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1540, vdm: 83
ohne Impressum
Foliation (149-160) in red ink.
Distinctive foliation suggests that this copy was from a collected volume owned by Hartmann Schedel.
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Good. Some worming. Remains of a leather tab.
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
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).
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.
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