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Musicae activae micrologus.

Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1517, vdm: 506

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Title page:

Musice Actiue || Micrologꝰ Andree Orni⸗||toparchi Ostrofranci Meyningensis, Artiũ || Mgr̃i, Libris Quattuor digestꝰ. Oĩbꝰ Mu⸗||sicæ studiosis nõ tã vtilis q̃𝔷 necessarius.|| Laurentius Thurschenreutinus Ad studio⸗||sum Musices Lectorem.|| Musica: quam rursus mēdis purgauerit author: || Iam redit ante oculos: lector amice: tuos.|| Iā
redit ante oculos, Lypsick excussa Schumāni || Arte Valentini: qui bene pressit eam.|| Arte Valentini facta est nitidissima tota: || Et tibi Arionios afferet illa sonos.||

Colophon:

Excussum est hoc opus, ab ipso authore denuo castigatum, || recognitumq𝔷: Lipsie in edibus Valentini Schumanni, calco=||graphi solertissimi: Mense Nouẽbri: Anni virginei partus de=||cimi septimi supra sesquimillesimũ. Leone decimo Pont. Max.|| ac Maximiliano inuicitissimo imꝑatore orbi terraꝝ p̃sidētibus.||

Author:
Andreas Vogelsang
Printer:
Valentin Schumann
Printer's mark:

M4r: Mark with two branches and oak leaves with initials VS and LD.

Place of printing:

Leipzig

Year:
1517
Further information on dating: from colophon
Type of source:

Theory book

Catalogue references:
RISM B/6 p. 627
VD16 ZV 15270
vdm
506
Further details:

Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.


Dedicatee:
Georg Brack; Philipp Surus
Further contributors: Lorenz Hochwarth; Philipp Surus; Nikolaus Marschalk; Heinrich Cother; Andreas Vogelsang
Paratexts:

a1r: poem, Laurentius Thurschenreutinus [i.e. Hochwart] Ad studiosum Musices Lectorem.
a1v: poem, Nicolaus Marcescalcus Thurius ... In Musicen Andree Ornithoparchi.
a1v: Philippus Surus Miltenburgensis Artium Magister ad Lectorem Musice studiosum.
E3r: letter of dedication to second part, Venerabili ac multe beneuolentie viro, domino Georgio Bracchio Musico peritissimo ... Andreas Ornitoparchus ... Salutem.
I1r: Finit liber Secundus. Sequitur Tertius. Perspicacis Ingenii Viro Philippo Suro … Musico argutissimo Sacelli Palatini principis, ac Bauarie ducis moderatori praecipuo: Andreas Ornitoparchus … Salutem.
M3v: Tetrastichon authoris ad Librum. … Libellus ad Lectorem.
M4r: Tetrastichon Auctoris in inuidum.

Illustrations:

Frame of title made of five woodblocks. The largest, at the bottom, shows Orpheus and Euridice holding a sign with music for two voices (Discantus and Tenor) in mensural notation. Various illustrative woodcuts including one showing the hexachords (with organ pipes) (A6v) and one showing the mutations (B4v).
C4r: Diagram of a monochord.


Language:

Latin

Format:
Printed area: 117 x 172 mm
Number of leaves:
54
Collation: A6, B4, C6, D-E4, F6, G-M4.
Autopsy copy:

GB-Lbl K.1.h.16


Online facsimile:

D-HAu, D-B (1), D-B (2)


D-B Mus. ant. theor. O 15a (1), A1r

  
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