vdm16

vdm16
Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music

Susanna comoedia tragica.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1541, vdm: 1191

BASICS

Title page:

SVSANNA || COMOEDIA TRA⸗||GICA.|| Per Xystum Betulium || Augustanum.|| [printer’s mark] || COLONIAE Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat.|| Anno M. D. XXXXI.||

Colophon:

see title page.

Author:

Sixt Birck

Printer:

Johannes Gymnich the Elder

Printer's mark:

Heraldic seahorse holding a sceptre with a stork on the top (title page).

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:

1541

Further information on dating: from title page.

Type of source:

Humanist book

Catalogue references:

RISM A/1 ANAN 2729a

USTC 695229

VD16 B 5560

vdm

1191

Further details:

Earlier editions: vdm 820 and vdm 826. The woodblocks used for both of these editions were reused for the 1541 edition as well.

Further contributors: Helius Eobanus Hessus; Georg Pictorius; Johannes Vlieg

Paratexts:

A1v: PVERI IN LAVDEM || AGRIPPINAE VRBIS IN QVA || repetita est actio.|| (The text of the following polyphonic song is printed in full (“Agrippina tibi laudibus inclytæ, || Germani imperii quæ decus omnium || …”).
F7v: IOANNIS VLIEGH KEMPENSIS || dimetrum de turpi amore.|| [...] || EIVSDEM DIMETRVM DE SVSANNA.||

Language:

Latin

Format:

8º

Printed area: text pages: 72.5 x 123 mm; page with musical notation (A2r): 82 x 123.5 mm

Number of leaves:

Collation: A-F8 (last folio blank).

Autopsy copy:

A-Wn Alt Prunk 35.N.33

Online facsimile:

D-Rs, A-Wn

A-Wn Alt Prunk 35.N.33, A1r