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Lilium musicae planae.

Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1497, vdm: 1325

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Title page:

Lilium Musice plane Michael || Keinspeck musici Alexandrini.|| [woodcut] ||

Colophon:

[ornament] Explicit Lilium Musice plane Michaelis || Keinspeck de Nürnberga Musici Alexan-||drini benemeriti Vna cu𝔷 psalmodie vtriusq𝔷 || tam maioris q̃𝔷 minoris intonatōe.secundum || omnes tonos.et exercicio solmisandi Nouiter || adiunctis. Impressum Vlme per Johānem || Schäffler.Anno salutis.M.cccc.xcvii.||

Author:
Michael Keinspeck
Printer:
Johann Schäffler
Place of printing:

Ulm

Year:
1497
Further information on dating: taken from colophon.
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 442
USTC 746551
GW M16245
ISTC ik00009000
vdm
1325
Further details:

Fétis cites an edition printed at Straßburg by Knobloch in 1506. This is not attested elsewhere, and is thus clearly an error.


Paratexts:

A2r-A2v: Prologus || [m]usica ars modulatiua || [...] (preface)

Illustrations:

fol. A1r: Woodcut on the title page. Pythagoras and Lady Musica stand in front of a wheel that has bells at the end of its spokes and a bird perched on its top. Pythagoras holds a hammer in his right hand, and a banner with solmisation syllables in his left. Lady Musica has a pointer in her left hand, and holds the wheel with her right. To her right is a banner with the inscription: “Ach muß mir selbs frewd machen || wān schwartze varb wert' mir lache” (“Oh, I must make pleasure for myself when black colour [i.e. melancholia] laughs at me”) (c. 89 x 89 mm).
fol. A3v: Woodcut of a Hexachord system.


Language:

Latin

Format:
Printed area: 92 x 146 mm (A2r)
Number of leaves:
16
Collation: A-B8
Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738


Online facsimile:

D-Mbs, US-Wcm


D-Mbs 4° Mus.th. 738, A1r

  
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