Title page:

MVsica getutscht vnd || auszgezogẽ durch SebastianÅ© virdung Priesters || von Amberg vnd alles gesang ausz 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 Straszburg 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. It is unclear which of the not yet inspected copies belongs to the (a)- or (b)-edition. No printer, place of publication or date of publication are mentioned in the edition. On the attributions and the complex printing process, see Ripin and the edition of 1993. F-Pc (after Brown) is a ghost (see Ripin, p. 192, Fn. 12). The entries in RISM are irregular and incomplete.

A2r-v: Dedication letter, dated “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 on the top.
Several woodcuts of instruments throughout the book.

High German

Autopsy copy:

D-Mbs 4º Mus.th. 1616

D-Mbs, D-B, CH-Bu