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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1516, vdm: 80

BASICS
Title page:

Ioannis 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 Badensis || mense Ianuario. M.D.XVI.||

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

Tübingen

Year:
1516
Further information on dating: Taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1745
USTC 669281
VD16 R 1268
vdm
80
Further details:

This is a reprint of an earlier version of Reuchlin's popular Scaenica progymnasmata.

Further contributors: Sebastian Brant; Valentin Helfant
Paratexts:

A1r: poem of recommendation from Sebastian Brant on title page.

Language:

Latin; Greek

Format:
4º
Printed area: 100 x 152 mm
Number of leaves:
10
Collation: A4, B6.
Autopsy copy:

D-Mu 4 Inc.lat. 837

Online facsimile:

A-Wn, CH-Zz


A-Wn 20.Dd.375, A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda

Remarks on printing:

A Rotunda-like type 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: 95.5 x 15 mm (Mortalium, A4r); 94.5 x 15 mm (Digna, B1v); 109 x 15.5 mm (Musis, B2v); 108.5 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, B4r).

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:

Four choruses: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

*A-Wn, B-Br, CH-CObodmer, CH-Zz, D-LEm, D-Mbs, *D-Mu, GB-Ge

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.

Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77


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.

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


A-Wn 20.Dd.375, A4r
COPIES
A-Wn (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 20.Dd.375
Classification of binding:
later / modern binding
Link to online scan:

A-Wn

B-Br (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)
Shelfmark: INC A 339 (RP) (Réserve précieuse)
Provenance:

Olim Fétis 2510; N.ms.; Cachet "Dupl. Biblioth. Lande[?]"; Cachet de relieur "J.J. Ruytinx, Relieur, 11, rue Vanmoer"

CH-CObodmer (Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer)
CH-Zz (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Musikabteilung)
Shelfmark: RRc 70,3
Link to online scan:

CH-Zz

D-LEm (Leipzig, Stadtbibliothek - Musikbibliothek)
D-Mbs (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
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

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Text has been underlined throughout the whole print.

Provenance:

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

GB-Ge (Glasgow, University Library, Euing Music Collection)
Shelfmark: P.d.2