Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1517, vdm: 506
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.||
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.||
M4r: Mark with two branches and oak leaves with initials VS and LD.
Leipzig
Theory book
Further editions after 1550: Leipzig 1555, London 1609.
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.
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.
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