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Institutio in musicen mensuralem.

Erfurt: Hans Knappe the Elder, 1513, vdm: 737

BASICS
Title page:

Institutio in Musicen || mensuralem/ adiectis aliquot regulis ad || canendi artem summe necãrijs/ tum triũ || vocũ exemplis/ quo magis studiosi musi||ces: iucũditate cantus: in huius artis stu||dium atq𝔷 amorem induci possent.|| H.C.|| Ad Lectorem || Cernis Cecropii resonantia scripta libelli || Scripta scatent miris officiosa fauis || Quicquid nostra facit ꝑ longa volumnia tellus || Hoc dicet modico: pagina pressa stilo:|| Maximus Amphion: generosi dogmatis: auctor || Colligit egressus: docte libelle: tuos || Tanta canit dulci plectro Citharedus Arion || Et Linus argutum: pollice pulsat opus:|| Que natura dedit tibi per mortalia: nomen|| Perpetuuum: nostre Candica laudis erit || Ergo qui tersum vidisti munus ocellis || Hoc eme non modice excōmodatis erit || Atq𝔷 pias grates homini persolue diserto:|| Qui dedit ingenio permia tanta tuo.||

Colophon:

Finis musicę mensuralis iam nouiter Erphurdie || excussum per Ioannem Knappum || Anno salutis M.D.xiij. 25.|| Kaleñ. Septembris ||

Author:
Anonymous
Printer:
Hans Knappe the Elder
Printer's mark:

The initials HK (with the K attached to the right hand of the H) in white lines on black background.

Place of printing:

Erfurt

Year:
1513
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 943
USTC 669133
VD16 I 235
vdm
737
Paratexts:

A1r: H. C. Ad Lectorem.
A1v: Mais: J. F. Eulogium musices.
A2r: Prefatio in Musicen.
D5v: Ad Lectorem.
D6r: Ad Lectorem.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 99 x 170 mm
Number of leaves:
22
Collation: A-B6, C4, D6.
Autopsy copy:

D-B Mus. ant. theor. H. 90 (3)

Online facsimile:

D-B (2)


D-B Mus. ant. theor. K 45, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Textura

Colour printing:

red type on title page

Remarks on printing:

The first musical example (A5r) is a full-page woodcut, where all the lines including the text were cut into wood in one block. On other occasions there are single lines of musical examples with the text set underneath from type.(A5v, for example).
The music notes are rather large and crudely cut.
The music for three voices is cut with one voice underneath the other, almost giving an impression of scoring. The woodcut with ligatures (B4r) is particularly messy.
In the woodcut the staff, notes and text are printed together.

Notation:

Mensural notation; Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
5
Number of voices:
1, 3
Measurements:

A5r is full page 120 x 175 mm.

Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Examples for musica ficta, hexachords, clefs, ligatures, punctuation, prolation, alteration.

Copies:

D-As, *D-B, D-B, D-EFs, D-FRu, D-KA, D-MZs


D-B Mus. ant. theor. K 45, A5r
COPIES
D-As (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 4 Phil 372
D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. H 90 (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Light brown leather.
Content of composite volume:

1. Flores musice omnis cantus Gregoriani, Augsburg, 1488.
2. Opus aureum, Wollick, 1501.
4. Bogentanz Collectanea utriusque, 1515.

Bound with copies from vdm:

Opus aureum musicae [Quentell 1501] (b) - D-B

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Numerous annotations in black ink including a system of music with four lines containing chant.

D-B (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: Mus. ant. theor. K 45
Link to online scan:

D-B (2)

D-EFs (Erfurt, Stadt- und Bezirksbibliothek, Musikbibliothek)
D-FRu (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: F 9273
D-KA (Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 54A 329 R
D-MZs (Mainz, Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek)