woodcut

Textura, Schwabacher, Text printed from woodcut, Rotunda, Uncial

red type on title page

Contains numerous woodcuts of musical instruments and of a lutenist [fol. Iijv]; diagrams of lute neck with frets. Apart from the transposition of the dedicatory epistle, Schönsperger has tried to make a page-for-page facsimile of the Basel editions. The woodcuts have all been recut, though quite skillfully. There are some errors, such as “Psalter Spil” instead of “Platerspil” on B4r. On G3r, the woodcut giving the list of notes in organ tablature is printed upside-down (in A-Wn, not in D-W). On C4v the Tympanum Jheronimi is printed upside-down (D-W). Textura and rotunda used as display types.
In the woodcut the staff, notes and text are printed together.

Mensural notation; Tablature (lute: German); Tablature (organ: German)

See Brown (1511/3) for full details.
G2v-H3r: Woodcut notes set into text: individual notes, ligatures, explanation of tablature notation.
H4v-I1r: German lied setting for four voices (O haylige / onbeflecte / zart iunckfrawschafft marie) in white mensural notation (woodcut with woodcut initials). Tenor and text on H4v, [Discantus], Altus and Bassus on I1r. Text incipit given in [Discantus] only.
I1v-I2r: Organ intabulation of previous piece (O hailige) with lower three voices in tablature and [Discantus] in mensural notation (note values halved).
M2v-M3r: Lute intabulation.

motet, polyphonic song, music for instrumental ensemble, music for solo instrument (exc. keyb., lute, plucked instruments), music for lute or other plucked instruments

H4v-I1r: one German Lied setting for four voices (O haylige / onbeflecte / zart iunckfrawschafft marie) in white mensural notation (woodcut), also intabulated for organ and lute.

Copies:

A-Iu, *A-Wgm, *A-Wn, *D-KA, *D-W, NL-DHgm

A copy of this edition, or vdm 12, is listed in the collection of János Dernschwam (1494–c. 1568, see Berlász 1984).

Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht. A Treatise on musical instruments (1511). Edited by Beth Bullard. Cambridge: CUP, 1993

Secondary literature:

Ripin, Edwin M. “A Reevaluation of Virdung’s ‘Musica getutscht’.” JAMS 29 (1976): 189-223 (p. 149, Nr 30/7137)
Berlász, Jenő, Katalin Keveházi, István Monok, A Dernschwam-könyvtár : Egy magyarországi humanista könyvjegyzéke. Szeged: JATE, 1984. (p. 149, Nr 30/7137)