Tübingen: Thomas Anshelm, 1511, vdm: 77
woodcut
Antiqua (Roman), Rotunda
A Rotunda-like is text font is used as a display font. The text is set in Antiqua.
Mensural notation
full-length staves: 94.5 x 15.5 mm (Mortalium, a4r); 93 x 15 mm (Digna, a6r); 109 x 15.5 mm (Musis, b1r); 108.5 x 15.5 mm (Cedant, B2v)
The four musical examples are notated in two different ways. While the first, third and fourth examples are given in white mensural notation, the second example is given in black semibreves and breves (probably to indicate the chorus' triple meter).
dramatic chorus
Chorus at the end of the first four acts: 1. Mortalium iocunditas volucris et pendula; 2. Digna sunt Apolline; 3. Musis poetis et sacro; 4. Cedant fori contentio et iurgia. Mention of the composer in the addition "Acta ludis Februis": "Modos fecit Daniel megel" (b5r).
Holstein, Hugo: Johann Reuchlins Komödien. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Lateinischen Schuldrama, Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1888 (Nachdruck 1973).