single impression

Fraktur, Schwabacher, Antiqua (Roman)

Fraktur is used as display font. The Text is set in Schwabacher.

Tablature (lute: German)

Measurements:

full-length line of tablature (c3r, six lines on one page): 161 x 18 mm; full-length line of tablature (d1v, four lines on one page): c. 164 x 30 mm height of flags: 10.5 mm

music for lute or other plucked instruments

At the beginning of the volume there is an extensive introduction into playing the Lute and German tabulature (a2r–c2v). This section is followed by intabulations of nineteen German songs, ten Italian songs, fifteen French chansons, two Latin compositions, nine Italian dances/instrumental pieces, and ten German dances/instrumental pieces by various composers (unnamed), such as Caspar Bohemus, Josquin Desprez, Antoine Févin, Nicolas Gombert, Paul Hofhaimer, Henricus Isaac, Clément Janequin, Johannes Lupi, Mittantier, Pierre Moulu, Pierre Sandrin, Jörg Schönfelder, Ludwig Senfl, Claudin de Sermisy, Thomas Stoltzer, Philippe Verdelot, and Adrian Willaert, identified through concordances (see Brown 115–117).

Copies:

*D-Ngm

Secondary literature:

Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental Music Printed before 1600. A Bibliography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1965 (no. 1549/6)