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Opus aureum musicae (b).

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1501, vdm: 736

BASICS
Title page:

Opus Aureum.|| Musice castigatissimũ || de Gregoriana et Figuratiua atq𝔷 con/||trapũcto simplici percõmode tra/||ctans om̃ibꝰ cantu oblectan||tibus vtile et necessa/||rium e diuersis || exerptum || Fata regut finem. spero dij cepta secundent.|| Qui ducis vultus et non legis ista libenter || Omnibus inuideas. liuide nemo tibi:||

Colophon:

fol. H5r: Explicit opusculū musices omnibus volentibꝰ cantū || vtrūq𝔷 scire necessariū fausto fine Impressum Colonie ꝑ || honestū virū Henricū Quentell ciuem famatū eiusdem || Anno missionis in carnē diuini verbi. millesimo quingē||tesimo vno addito.||

Author:
Nicolaus Wollick; [Melchior Schanppecher]
Printer:
Heinrich Quentell
Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1501
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 899
VD16 W 4339
vdm
736
Further details:

The two different issues of the 1501 edition (vdm 736 and vdm 362) are very similar. Only a close comparison reveals minor differences in the title page and colophon, such as the spelling of Quentel/ Quentell in the colophon, and some differences in the line breaks.
Melchior Schanppecher is the author of the last two parts of the book, the Musica figurativa.

Paratexts:

A1v: Epigramma Ad lectorem (Musica dulce sonans...).
H5v: Letter by Nikolaus Wollick.

Illustrations:

A5v: Guidonian hand.

Language:

Latin

Format:
8º
Printed area: 89 x 156 mm
Number of leaves:
40
Collation: A6, B4, C6, D-E4, F6, G4, H6.
Autopsy copy:

D-B Mus. ant. theor. H 90 (title page is missing; title page taken from D-W).

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

empty staff lines; woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Textura, Rotunda, Uncial

Remarks on printing:

Various examples:
A5v: Guidonian hand woodcut with text from type; musical notation in woodcut.
B4v ff: musical examples set from woodcut, text from type in between.
B2v ff: just lines from woodcut, no notes.

Number of staff lines:
4, 5
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

B4v: height of first staff line: 14.5 mm.
Distance from top line of upper staff to bottom line of lowest: 144 mm.

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for theory; various topics (intervals, rests etc).

Copies:

*D-B, *D-W

Related editions:

Opus aureum musicae (a).

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1501, vdm: 362


Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1504, vdm: 364


Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1505, vdm: 387


Opus aureum musicae.

Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1508, vdm: 388


Opus aureum musicae.

Strasbourg: Johann Prüss the Elder, 1510, vdm: 389

COPIES
D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. H 90
Comments:

Has Quentell (with two l) in colophon and „millesimo quingetesimo uno addito“.

Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Light brown leather binding.
Content of composite volume:

1. Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani, Augsburg, 1488.
3. Insitutio in Musicen Mensuralem, Erfurt 1513.
4. Bogentanz Collectanea utriusque, 1515.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Institutio in musicen [Knappe 1513] - D-B (1)
Collectanea utriusque cantus [Cologne 1515] - D-B (1)

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some of the empty staff lines are filled with musical examples by hand in brown ink.
Small number of annotations in the text.

Provenance:

Georg Poelchau Augsburg 1818

D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: A: 78 Quod. (1)
Description of binding: In light brown wood and white leather leather with various round and square stamps. One metal clasp. Contents are noted on the outside wooden part of the binding.
Content of composite volume:

After the handwritten notes this is the first printed book in this compound volume. Thereafter:
2: Clarissima plane.
3: Lilium musice plane (Hupfuff, 1506) plus a manuscript part.
4: Textus sequentiarum cum luculentis (Cologne, Quentell, 1504).
5: Expositio hymnorum (Heinrich Quentell Erben 1504) plus a manuscript part.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Clarissima planae atque choralis musicae interpretatio [Furter 1501] (a) - D-W
Lilium musicae planae [Hupfuff 1506] - D-W

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Before this book are a few pages of handwritten music and notes; one piece for four voices, then what looks like a transcription of a theory book with musical example. At the very end of the entire volume (with multiple books bound into it) more handwritten notes; only one manuscript addition within the book: a bracket in brown ink on the very final page.