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Schwabacher, Rotunda, Uncial

Rotunda is used as a display font (title page). The text is set in Schwabacher. Uncial initials. The measurements of the full-length staff are taken from the Vienna copy.

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

full-length staff (b2r): 94 x 12.5 mm

The quality of the musical examples is quite low, and the notation is quite crudely cut. In the first chapters of the edition smaller music examples (width c. 34 mm) are included in the text (a6-a8). The first full-length staff appears on b2r. Sometimes the printer uses a f-clef and a c-clef in one system, sometimes he only uses a c-clef.

example in theory book

Examples of intonations, recitation formulas, exercises for solmisation, etc.

Copies:

*A-Wn, B-Br, CH-Zz, *D-Mbs, D-Mu, F-Pn, GB-Lbl, H-Ba, *US-SM

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

Secondary literature:

Ammel, Winfried. Michael Keinspeck und sein Musiktraktat Lilium Musicae Planae, Basel 1496. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1970
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 102)
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)