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Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music
Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music
Susanna comoedia tragica.
Cologne: Johannes Gymnich the Elder, 1539, vdm: 826
BASICS
Title page:
❧ SVSAN⸗||NA COMOEDIA || TRAGICA.|| PER XYSTVM BETVLIVM || AVGVSTANVM.|| [printer’s mark] || Coloniæ, excudebat Ioannes Gymnicus.|| Anno. M. D.XXXIX.||
Author:
Sixt Birck
Printer:
Johannes Gymnich the Elder
Printer's mark:
Heraldic seahorse with banderole inscribed: “DISCITE IVSTITIAM MONITI” (on title page).
Place of printing:
Cologne
Year:
1539
Further information on dating: from title page
Type of source:
Humanist book
Catalogue references:
USTC 695225
VD16 B 5558
vdm
826
Further details:
Woodblocks for music are reused from the earlier edition of 1538 (vdm 820).
Paratexts:
A1v-3r: Pueri in laudem Agrippinae urbis in qua repetita est actio. The text is printed in full (“Agrippina tibi laudibus inclytæ, || Germani imperii quæ decus omnium || …”), and then set to music.
Format:
8º
Printed area: 82 x 125 mm
82 x 125 mm Number of leaves:
48
Collation: A-F8 (last folio blank).
Autopsy copy:
D-W P 1692 Helmst 8°
D-Sl HBK 49, A1r