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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77

BASICS
Title page:

Joannis Reuchlin Phorcen||sis Scænica progymnasmata,hoc est || ludicra præexercitamenta || SEBASTIANVS BRANT || Accipe Vangionum præsul uenerande 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 uiro || Multum docta cohors,multum cirrata iuuentus || Debet Capnioni,multa thalia meo ||

Colophon:

Tubingæ in ædibus Thomæ Anshelmi || Anno M.D.XI. mensæ [sic] octobri.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Thomas Anshelm
Place of printing:

Tübingen

Year:
1511
Further information on dating: Taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1741, MM 1741
USTC 669280
VD16 R 1259
vdm
77
Further contributors: Sebastian Brant; Valentin Helfant; Jacob Trach; Adam Werner
Paratexts:

a1r: Poem of recommendation from Sebastian Brant on the title page.

Language:

Latin

Format:
4º
Printed area: 112.5 x 152 mm
Number of leaves:
12
Collation: a-b6.
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs P.o.lat. 756,23; D-Mu 4 Inc.lat. 837 (measurements)

Online facsimile:

D-Mbs


D-Mbs P.o.lat. 756,23, a1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

Remarks on printing:

A Rotunda-like is text font is used as a display font. The text is set in Antiqua.

Notation:

Mensural notation

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

full-length staves: 94.5 x 15.5 mm (Mortalium, a4r); 93 x 15 mm (Digna, a6r); 109 x 15.5 mm (Musis, b1r); 108.5 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, B2v)

Comments on notation:

The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While 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 chorus' triple meter).

Genre:

dramatic chorus

Repertoire:

Chorus at the end of the first four acts: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia. Mention of the composer in the addition "Acta ludis Februis": "Modos fecit Daniel megel" (b5r).

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

CH-SO, D-EFu, D-FRu, D-GI, *D-Mbs, *D-Mu, PL-WRu, US-Cn

Related editions:

Scaenica progymnasmata.

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


Scaenica progymnasmata phorcensis.

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


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 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

Modern edition:

Holstein, Hugo: Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Lateinischen Schuldrama, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1888 (Nachdruck 1973).


D-Mbs P.o.lat. 756,23, a4r
COPIES
CH-SO (Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek)
Shelfmark: ZBSO B 1499 (4 an)
D-EFu (Erfurt, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: I. 8° A. 00234cui (04)
D-FRu (Freiburg im Breisgau, Universitätsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: D 9177,h
D-GI (Giessen, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Bibliothek)
D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Shelfmark: Res/4 P.o.lat. 756,23
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Grey paper.
Manuscript additions or corrections:

Red and blue coloured ink to highlight chapters, titles and lines; folio numbers in red from 181-198 in the right upper corner.

Provenance:

Schedel (deduced from the colouring and the pagination).

Link to online scan:

D-Mbs

D-Mu (München, Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Shelfmark: 0001/4 Inc.lat. 837
Condition:

Good.

Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Description of binding: Brown card binding with black spine. The composite volume with works by 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

Bound with copies from vdm:

Scaenica progymnasmata [Anshelm 1516] - D-Mu
Scaenica progymnasmata [Bergmann 1498] - D-Mu

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Some handwritten additions (i. e. on a2r)

Provenance:

Stamp of the Landshut University Library (predecessor of the Munich University Library that moved to Munich in 1826) on title page.

PL-WRu (Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka)
US-Cn (Chicago, IL, The Newberry Library)