woodcut

Rotunda, Antiqua (Roman)

red type on title page

Includes inverse woodcuts (black block, white lines) showing musica ficta (C5v) and note values (E4r, F3r).
Types 1, 2, 4, 5, (7) (Proctor).

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Measurements:

full-length staff (A5r): 117 x 13 mm

example in theory book

Numerous musical examples; in first part on intervals, musica ficta, psalm intonations, modes; in the second part, to show ligatures, mensuration, prolation, coloration, alteration etc.; in the third part, “de laude accentus.” Rules of counterpoint.

Copies:

*A-Wgm, CH-SGs, CH-SI, CZ-Pu, *D-B, *D-B, D-B, D-BNu, *D-Dl, D-DS, D-HAu, D-Ju, *D-W, DK-Kk, F-Pn, F-Sn, *GB-Lbl, I-Vnm, *US-NYp, US-Wc

A copy of this edition was listed in the catalogue of the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau (before 1614, see Möller and Vollhardt).

Secondary literature:

Proctor, Robert. An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum. Part II. MDI-MDXX. Section I. Germany. London: Kegan Paul, 1903 (136, 11518)
Möller, Eberhard. Die beiden ältesten Notenkataloge der Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau. In Festschrift Haberkamp. Tutzing: Hans Schneider Verlag, 2002, 13-26. (I, 20; II, 38)
Vollhardt, Reinhard: Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1896. (p. 129-130, No 231)

Ornitoparchus, Musicae activae micrologus, 1517. Faksimile, Hildesheim/New York: Olms, 1977