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Hortulus musices practicae.

Leipzig: Melchior Lotter the Elder, 1518, vdm: 421

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Technique for printing music:

multiple impression

Text font:

Greek, Textura, Rotunda, Antiqua (Roman)

Colour printing:

[other], red type on title page

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.


Notation:

Hufnagel notation

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

height of staff with five lines: 16.5 mm; height of virga: 11 mm; different lengths of staff blocks, often 17 mm


Genre:

example in theory book

Repertoire:

Musical examples for mutation, psalm intonations.


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-B Mus. ant. theor. B. 151 (1), A4r

  
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