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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1537, vdm: 82

BASICS
Title page:

IOAN||NIS REVCHLIN || Phorcensis. LL. doctoris co||mœdiæ duæ, Scenica progy⸗||mnasmata, hoc est, ludicra || præexercitamẽta Et Ser||gius uel Capitis caput.|| Coloniæ excudebat Ioan||nes Gymnicus Anno || D.M.XXXVII.||

Colophon:

Comœdiarum Ioannis Reuchlin Phor⸗||censis finis.||

Author:
Johannes Reuchlin
Printer:
Johannes Gymnich the Elder
Printer's mark:

Shield with unicorn as part of the title woodcut frame.

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1537
Further information on dating: from title page
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1747, MM 1747
USTC 667157
VD16 R 1280, R 1297
vdm
82
Further details:

The copy in D-W is a ghost.

Illustrations:

Integral title woodcut frame with Italianate grotesques (siren, putti, grotesque faces) and heraldic shield with unicorn.

Language:

Latin

Format:
8º
Printed area: 67 x 114 mm
Number of leaves:
24
Collation: A-C8.
Autopsy copy:

D-Z 6.8.49 (3)


D-Z 6.8.49 (3), A1r
DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

Antiqua is used as display font.

Notation:

Mensural notation

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

fol. A5r, second system (Mortalium, Bassus): 67 x 9.5 mm; A7r, first system (Digna sunt, Discantus): 68 x 9.0 mm

Comments on notation:

The chorus Digna sunt Apolline is notated in blackened breves and semibreves, and with the time signature C3.

Genre:

dramatic chorus, polyphonic song

Repertoire:

Choruses at the end of the first four acts: Chorus Mortalium iocunditas, Digna sunt Apolline (for four voices), Musis, poetis, & sacro; Caedant fori contentio & iurgia.

Named composers:

Daniel Megel

Copies:

B-Br, D-Ju, D-WRtl, D-WRz, *D-Z

Copies in historical catalogues:

A copy of this edition was once held in the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (see Vollhardt).

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.

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, 1540, vdm: 83

Secondary literature:

Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 234, No 654)


D-Z 6.8.49 (3), A4v
COPIES
B-Br (Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)
D-Ju (Jena, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek)
D-WRtl (Weimar, Thüringische Landesbibliothek, Musiksammlung)
D-WRz (Weimar, Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek - Studienzentrum)
D-Z (Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek)
Shelfmark: 6.8.49 (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Brown full leather binding with roll- and blindstamping; the cover is stamped: “MDXLI L X”
Content of composite volume:

1. Ioannis Gigantis Northusiani Sylvarum libri IIII. Wittenberg: Rhau, 1540.
2. Petri Papei Samarites. Cologne: Gymnicus, 1540.
3. Ioannis Reuchlin Phorcensis […] Comœdiæ duæ. Cologne: Gymnicus, 1540.
4. Petriscus Georgii Macropedii. Cologne: Gymnicus, 1540.
5. Georgii Macropedii Bassarus. Utrecht: Harmannus de Borculo, 1540.
6. Ovis perdita comœdia sacra. Autore Iacobo Zovitio. Cologne: Gymnicus, 1539.

Provenance:

Inscription on the title page of the first item: Conradus Viglerus Iuris V. Licentiatus, hunc libellum nodo offert Iheronimo Stolein consanguineo et patrucli suo chariss: &c.; old shelfmark: a. 4081