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Scaenica progymnasmata.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1540, vdm: 83

BASICS
Title page:

IOANNIS || REVCHLIN PHOR-||CENSIS LL. DOCTORIS CO⸗||moediæ duæ, Scenica progymnasmata, hoc || est, ludicra præexercitamenta.|| Et Sergius uel Capi⸗||tis caput.|| ♣ || [printer’s mark] || COLONIAE apud Ioann. Gymnicum.|| Anno M. D. XXXX.||

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

Heraldic seahorse with banderole inscribed: “DISCITE IVSTITIAM MONITI” (on title page).

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:
1540
Further information on dating: from title page
Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:
RISM A/1 M 1748, MM 1748
USTC 667611
VD16 R 1281, R 1298
vdm
83
Further details:

Several later editions (see VD16 R 1282 etc.). In this edition: two comedies by Reuchlin, only the first with music. A comparison with vdm 100 (= edition of the same book also by Gymnicus in Cologne, from the year 1534) shows that the woodblocks for the musical examples were reused.

Language:

Latin

Format:
8º
Printed area: 69 x 115 mm
Number of leaves:
24
Collation: A-C8.
Autopsy copy:

D-W P 1710 Helmst 8°

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

woodcut

Text font:

Italic, Antiqua (Roman)

Remarks on printing:

Antiqua as display font.

Musical layout:
choirbook
Notation:

Mensural notation

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

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

Comments on notation:

The second chorus (Digna sunt) has coloured notes in all voices.

Genre:

dramatic chorus

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:

CDN-Tcrrs, D-Mu, *D-W, D-Z, H-Bu

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, 1537, vdm: 82

Secondary literature:

Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 234, No 655)

COPIES
CDN-Tcrrs (Toronto, Library of the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies)
D-Mu (München, Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
D-W (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek)
Shelfmark: H: P 1710.8° Helmst. (3)
Classification of binding:
contemporary binding
Description of binding: Light brown leather with roll- and blindstamping.
Content of composite volume:

1: Lazarus mendicus Georgii Macropedii, Utrecht : Borculous, 1541
2: Susanna comoedia, Cologne, 1538.
4: Dialogus vere elegans, 1538

Bound with copies from vdm:

Susanna comoedia tragica [Gymnich 1538] - D-W (1)

Manuscript additions or corrections:

Price on title page of Reuchlin: iij â‚°

Provenance:

University of Helmstedt.

D-Z (Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek)
H-Bu (Budapest, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Egyetemi Könyvtár (Loránd Eötvös University Library))