single impression

Schwabacher, Fraktur

Fraktur is only used as a display font.

Tablature (lute: German)

Measurements:

Height of flags for lute tabulature: 10.0 mm.

music for lute or other plucked instruments

Intabulations of fourteen German songs, motets, chansons as well as instrumental preambles and fantasias.

Named composers:

Alexander Agricola; Antoine Brumel; Loÿset Compère; Nicolaus Craen; Johannes Ghiselin; Paul Hofhaimer; Heinrich Isaac; Josquin des Prez; Jean Mouton; Jacob Obrecht; Heinrich Finck; Andreas De Silva

Copies:

NL-HAN , B-Br, CH-BEsu, D-B, D-HAu, *D-Ngm, *D-W, *F-Ssp

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein).

Secondary literature:

Grosch, Nils. “Deutsche Tabulaturdrucke: Der Versuch interaktionsfreier musikaliscker Kommunikatione im 16. Jahrhundert. In NiveauNischeNimbus. Die Anfänge des Musikdrucks nördlich der Alpen, edited by Birgit Lodes, 283-312. Tutzing: Schneider (Wiener Forum für ältere Musikgeschichte, 3), 2010: 135-146
Teramoto, Mariko, and Armin Brinzing. Katalog der Musikdrucke des Johannes Petreius in Nürnberg (Catalogus musicus 14). Kassel: 1993
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 293)

Neusidler, Hans. “Der ander theil des Lautenbuchs” (Band 2, 1536) , 1976. Facsimile Edition. In Institutio pro arte testudinis: Series A; 3. Neuss: Junghänel, Päffgen, Schäffer, 1876