Title page:

Compendiaria Musice || artis aeditio/ cuncta q̃ ad practicam attinẽt || mira quadam breuitate complectens.|| ¶ Cum quibusdam nouis additionibus.|| [woodcut of Pythagoras weighing hammers] || Inuentum Samij modosq𝔷 vatis || Si paucis cupias habere verbis || Me paruum/ facito/ legas libellum || Et paruo redimas/ vale viator || ¶ Lipsi impressit Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. 1516.||

Colophon:

Lipsi Vuolffgangus Monaceñ. impressit. Anno. 1516.|| Et in vigilia Lucie et Otilie foeliciter finiuit.||

Leipzig

Theory book

In the D-B copy on fol. B4 verso two lines of music (4 and 5) have been pasted over with a piece of paper, which has a different version of the musical example printed on it. There are two editions of this book printed in the same year by the same printer, which show major variants on the title page and colophon.

A1v-2r: Reuerendo in Christo patri ac dno dno Balthasari coenobij Dobrilucensis Abbati… Michael Koswick artium ac philosophiae magister S.P.D. (preface, dated Lipsi Calendis Aprilibus. Anno partus deipare virginis. Millesimo quingentesimosextodecimo).
A2r: Tetrastichon in liuidum.

Title woodcut: Pythagoras holding a pair of scales with a hammer on one and two bells on the other side. He stands outdoors, in front of a blacksmith where three men are hitting hammers on an anvil. In the background is a village with a mill and a castle on a hill. On the top is the inscription: „PITAGORAS“.

Latin

Autopsy copy:

D-B Mus. ant. theor. B 151 (2)

D-B