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Hortulus musices practicae.

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter the Elder, 1517, vdm: 420

DETAILS
Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Greek, Antiqua (Roman), Textura, Rotunda

Colour printing:

red type on title page, [other]

Remarks on printing:

In a table (A5r), some lines printed in red, taking advantage of the occurrence of red type on the title page. [C1v] printed in landscape format to maximise space. The five-line staves are made of six blocks of 16.7 mm and one block of 4.9 mm. The four-line staves are made of sections 8.4 mm and 17.3 mm long.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

Number of staff lines:
4, 5, 6
Number of voices:
1
Measurements:

full-length staff (b3r, 5 lines): 107 x 16.5 mm; height of virga: 11 mm


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for mutation, psalm intonations


Copies:

B-Br, *D-W

Copies in historical catalogues:

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:

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)


D-W A: 125.6 Quod. (3), s.p.

  
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