Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76
Joannis Reuchlin Phorcen||sis Scęnica Progymnasmata,Hoc est || Ludicra præexercitamenta || SEBASTIANVS BRANT.|| Accipe Vangionum pręsul venerande,Ioannis || Capnionis nostri comica dulciloqui || Quo duce Germanos comœdia prisca reuisit || Et meruit soccis Rhenus inire nouis.|| Barbarico ex fumo,flammas meus ille decoras || Capnion elicuit,gratia multa viro.|| Multum docta cohors,multum cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni,multa thalia meo ||
Phorce in ędibus Thomę || Anshelmi.Anno.M.D.IX.||
Pforzheim
Humanist book
Poem of recommendation from Sebastian Brant on the title page.
b5r-b5v: Acta ludis Februis [sic] in edibus || illustris principis & Reuerendi dñi Ioannis Camerarij || dalburgij, Vāgonū Episcopi Heidelbergę, Egere Ia-||cobus Dornberger,Iaco. Eltz,Iacobus Lutz, Iacobus || merkel, Iaco. vuinphelingus iunior, Erasmus Munch,|| Hieronymus Quaich. Ioannes Gnypo,Ioannes Buhel,|| Modos fecit Daniel megel,Ioannes Richartzhufer re-||censuit, Pridie Kal.Februarias,Anno,M.cccc.xcvii.||
b5v: Iacobi Dracontij premonstratensis, Ad iuuentutem germanicam In Ioannem Reuchlin Phorcensem,prę-||ceptorem suum, quod primus & solus inter germanos || Comœdię sit auctor Panegyris || (poem by Jacob Trach)
b6v: Ad insignem virum magistrum Ioannem || Richartzhusen,recensorem Comœdię nouę Ioan||nis Reuchlin, Carmē Adę Vuernheri Temarensis.|| (poem)
Latin
D-Mbs Res.4 P.o.lat. 760,28; diplomatic transcription of title page and colophon, and index of paratexts from D-KNu AD+S 151
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woodcut
Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda
Rotunda is used as a display font and Antiqua is used for the text.
Mensural notation
full-length staves: 94 x 15 mm (Mortalium, a4r); 93.5 x 15 mm (Digna, a6r); 110 x 16 mm (Musis, b1r); 109 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, b2v)
The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. The first, third, and fourth examples 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
Chorus at the end of each of the first four acts: Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula (A4r), Digna sunt Apolline (A5v), Musis poetis et sacro (A6v), Cedant fori contentio et iurgia (B2r).
Daniel Megel
CH-Bu, D-HEu, *D-KNu, *D-Mbs, D-W
[Strasbourg]: Johann Grüninger, 1498, vdm: 596 [Basel]: Johann Bergmann von Olpe, 1498, vdm: 73 [Leipzig]: [Melchior Lotter the Elder], [1503 c.], vdm: 101 [Leipzig]: [Martin Landsberg], [1504], vdm: 605 Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, vdm: 588 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
Holstein, Hugo: Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Lateinischen Schuldrama, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1888 (Nachdruck 1973).
Good. Former damage has been repaired.
[1] Johannes Reuchlin. Sergius. Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1508, VD16 R 1287
[2] Johannes Reuchlin. Scaenica progymnasmata. Pforzheim: Thomas Anshelm, 1509, vdm: 76
Parts of the print have been rubricated. Handwritten annotations throughout.
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