Title page:

Musica instru⸗||mÄ“talis deudsch || ynn welcher begrif⸗||fen ist/wie man || nach dem gesange auff mancherley || Pfeiffen lernen sol/ Auch wie auff || die Orgel/ Harffen/ Lauten/ Gei⸗||gen/ vnd allerley Instrument vnd || Seytenspiel/nach der recht⸗||gegründten Tabelthur || sey abzusetzen.|| Mart. Agricola.||

Colophon:

Gedrückt zu Wittemberg || durch Georgen Rhaw.|| M. D. XXiX.||

Wittenberg

Theory book

This edition contains many woodcuts of instruments very similar to those in Musica getutscht, but which are newly cut. The (b) edition (vdm 1312) is a variant edition of vdm 211, which has a different colophon and different text layout on all pages of the last gathering. It is unclear which of those copies which have not yet been inspected belong to edition (a) or edition (b).

A1v–A2v: Den lesern gnad und fried von Gott.|| (preface by Martin Agricola).
A3r–A4r: Georgio Rhaw buchdru⸗||cker zu Wittemberg || wundsch ich Mart.|| Agricola/|| Gnad vnd frid von Gott.|| (preface by Agricola directed at the printer Rhau), dated “Magdeburg am tage Bartholomei. 1528.”

Numerous woodcuts of instruments, closely related to those in Musica getutscht (1511).
H2r: woodcut of Pythagoras in a smithy, carrying a pair of scales (75 x 105 mm).

High German; Latin

I–LVI

Autopsy copy:

D-W Musica Helmst. (3); more copies need to be inspected.

D-Mbs, D-B, A-Wn