vdm16

vdm16
Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music

De arte cantandi micrologus.

Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1535, vdm: 504

BASICS

Title page:

❧ ANDREAE OR-||NITOPARCHI MEYNINGENSIS DE || arte cantandi micrologus, libris quatuor || digestus, omnibus musicæ studio-||sis non tam utilis quàm neces-||sarius, diligenter reco-||gnitus.|| [printer’s decoration] || ¶ Coloniæ apud Ioannem Gymnicum.|| Anno. M. D. XXXV.||

Author:

Andreas Vogelsang

Printer:

Johannes Gymnich the Elder

Place of printing:

Cologne

Year:

1535

Further information on dating: Taken from title page.

Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:

RISM B/6 p. 627

USTC 611508

VD16 V 2128

vdm

504

Further details:

Separated in four books with different themes, but they continue on from each other (not starting a new collation, for example). Interestingly, each part has a new dedication letter. Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.

Dedicatee:

Georg Brack; Philipp Surus; Arnold Schlick

Further contributors: Heinrich Cother; Nikolaus Marschalk; Andreas Vogelsang

Paratexts:

A1v: In Libelli titulum inscriptionemque iocus.
A1v: Nicolaus Marescalcus thurius, … in musicen Andreæ Ornitoparchi.
A2r-A3v: Spectabilibus Praeclarisque viris Lunenburgensis ... Andreas Ornitoparchus Meyningensis liberalium disciplinarum Magister, Salutem.
A3v: Henrici Cotheri Brunopolitani. Argumentum libri primi.
E4r: Venerabili Multae Benevolentiae viro Domino Georgio Brachio ... Andreas Ornithoparchus … salutem (second dedication letter at start of the second chapter).
I1v: Perspicacis ingenii Viro Philippo Suro Myltemburgensi ... Andreas Ornitoparchus Meyningensis Sa. (new dedication letter at beginning of third part).
K2v: Spectabili … viro Magistro Arnoldo Schlick … Andreas Ornitoparchus ... Salutem (new dedication letter at beginning of fourth part).
M2v: Tetrastichon autoris ad Librum.
M3r: Libellus ad lectorem.
M3v: Henrici Cotheri Brunopolitani ... ad Andream Ornithoparchum ... epigramma.
M3v: Tetrastichon Autoris in inuidum.

Comments on paratexts:

This book has a large number of paratexts. Each book has a new preface.

Language:

Latin; Greek

Format:

6º

Printed area: 115 x 107 mm

Number of leaves:

Collation: A-M6 (last two folios blank).

Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492

Online facsimile:

D-Mbs

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, A1r

D-Mbs Mus.th. 2492, A1v