multiple impression

Textura, Rotunda, Greek, Antiqua (Roman)

red type on title page, [other], red text

The musical notation is printed with double impression. The differing intensity of the inking also seems to indicate that the music and text were printed in one impression, and the staff lines in another impression. In general the staff lines are printed from blocks of type (five blocks of 16.5 mm, one block of 19.5mm), though as space was made for text in the margins (for example on C2r), Lotter created his staff lines from nested sections. One example is printed in oblong layout. Red printing on title and on a5r in diagram (horizontal lines and text).

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

First staff line of first example (A4r): 107 x 14 mm. Height of long virga: 11 mm. Height of torculus filling two stave spaces: 9 mm. Height of f-clef: 8 mm. Height of c-clef: 5.4 mm.

example in theory book

Examples for hexachords, psalm intonations.

Copies:

*D-B, D-Dl, D-Gs, D-HIp, *D-Mbs, D-WRtl, E-Sco, GB-Lbl, S-Uu

A copy of one of the variant editions, not specified by year of publication, was held in the library of Ferdinand Columbus (ca. 1510-1539, no. 1865) (see Plamenac).

Secondary literature:

Giselbrecht, Elisabeth. “Melchior Lotter: a German ‘Music Printer’,” in Early Music Printing in German-Speaking Lands, ed. Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Elisabeth Giselbrecht and Grantley McDonald. London: Routledge, 2018: 123–134. (127, 129)
Plamenac, Dragan. “Excerpta Colombiniana: Items of musical interest in Fernando Colóns 'Regestrum.” In: Micelánea en Homenaje a Monsenor Hinigo Angles, Barcelona 1958-1961, vol. 2, pp. 663-687. (p. 674)