Title page:

MVsica getutscht vnd || außgezogẽ durch SebastianÅ© virdung Priestern || von Amberg vnd alles gesang auß den notẽ in die || tabulaturẽ diser benantẽ dryer Instrumẽtẽ der Or||geln: der Lautẽ: vnd Ä‘ Flöten transferieren zu lernẽ || Kurtzlich gemacht zu eren dẽ hochwirdigẽ hoch || gebornen fürsten vnnd herren: herr wilhalmen || Bischoue zü Straßburg seynem gnedigẽ herren.||

[Basel]

Theory book

There are two editions of this book published in the same year by the same printer. There are minor variations between these editions in the title page. No printer, place of publication or date of publication mentioned in edition; for the attributions and the complex printing process cf. Ripin and the edition 1993. In this second edition from 1511 most pages of the gatherings J through O are newly set. The entries in RISM are irregular and incomplete.

A2r-v: Dedication letter, dated “zů Basel vff zinstag [= Thursday] Margarethe [20 July]. Tusent fünffhundert vnd .xi. Jar.”

Woodcut title border, with acanthus and vine patterns
A1v: Woodcut arms, apparently of dedicatee (Wilhelm I (III) von Hohnstein), bishop of Strasbourg.
A4r: Woodcut of interlocutors in dialogue, Andreas Silvanus and Sebastianus [Virdung]. Woodcut contains images of rebec and harp.
I2v: Woodcut of lutenist with artist’s monogram VG (Urs Graf), horizontal border below the figure.
Several woodcuts of instruments throughout the book.

High German

Autopsy copy:

D-W 43 Musica Helmst.

D-W