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Uncial, Rotunda

Hufnagel notation; Mensural notation

Measurements:

first example (de vocum mutatione, A2v: C faut etc.): 97 x 9.5 mm

Hufnagel notation on two to five lines, mensural notation also on four lines. A diagram illustrating the consonances from unison to twentieth is on ten lines.

example in theory book

Three parts: musica plana, musica mensurabilis, „De contrapuncto & eius elementis“.

Copies:

*D-LEu, D-Mbs, F-Pn

The book is listed in the 1548 Bibliography by Gesner (see Bernstein).

Secondary literature:

Worstbrock‪, Franz Josef , ed. Deutscher Humanismus, 1480-1520: Verfasserlexikon, 2 volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009- (1:443)
Riemann, Hugo. “Anonymi introductorium musicae (c. 1500.) nach dem Unicum der Leipziger Universitätsbibliothek.” Montashefte für Musikgeschichte 29 (1897): 147-154, 157-64; 30 (1898), 1-8, 11-19
Bernstein, Lawrence F. “The Bibliography of Music in Conrad Gesner's Pandectae (1548).” Acta Musicologica 45 (1973): 119-163 (no. 97)