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Rotunda, Textura

The first chapters include shorter music examples included in the running text. The first music example (A8v) measures 34 x 12 mm. The text is set in Rotunda, while Textura is used as a display font.

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

full-length staff (B8v, first staff): 97.5 x 12.5 mm

example in theory book

Musical examples for modes, intervals.

Copies:

B-Bc, D-BAs, D-FRu, *D-Mbs, D-MÜp, D-MÜu, F-Pc, GB-Ge, I-Bc, US-Cn, US-Wc

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

Secondary literature:

Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 66)
Giselbrecht, Elisabeth, and Elizabeth Savage. “Printing Music: Technical Challenges and Synthesis, 1450–1530,” in Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands, ed. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht and Grantley McDonald. London: Routledge, 2018: 84–99. (91)