3. I. Compositori. | DEL R.P.D. GIO. MARIA ARTUSI | DA Folio. 8 and 72 ff., in 21 quires: A A2 B2 A-s. Dedicatory SECONDA PARTE | DELL ARTVSI | ouero | DELLE IMPER- Folio. 6 ff., and 56 pp. in 8 quires: a A8-G. Dedicatory epistle James E. Matthew. H. 276 m. B. 188 m. WALTHER, 52. HAYM, II, 563, 2. B. Bolongaro-Crevenna, II, 135, 2103. FORKEL, 95. HAWKINS, 1, 403. I, 96. BRUNET, 1, 521. MENDEL, 1, 308. BONAVENTURE of Brescia. BECKER, 62. GRove, WECKERLIN, 34. 1. Regula musice plane venerabilis fratris Bonauenture | de Brixia ordinis | Minorum. Colophon (f. 31): Explicit Breuiloquium musicale. editum a | Fratre Bonauentura de Brixia : ordinis mino- | rum: in conuentu nostro Sancti Francisci de | Brixia. Deo gratias. | Impressa in Venetia per Io. Francisco & | Io. Antonio de Rusconi Fratelli. Nelli anni del signore. M.D.XXIII. | adi. x. Octobrio. Imperan | te inclyto Principe An- | drea Griti Ve | netiarum | Duce. | +. Octavo. 32 ff., 22 long lines to the full page, with spaces of 3 lines with small type indicators for the initial letters of the chapters. Latin musical notation on a staff of 4 lines, printed from metal blocks. With a catch-word to each sheet, but without running title or foliation. The volume is adorned with three cuts, 4 ornamental versal letters, and the printer's device. I. I. This treatise, of which earlier editions were printed at Brescia in 1500, at Milan in 1507, at Venice in 1516 and 1523, and an Italian translation at Venice in 1513, is dedicated to Father Mark de Duchis, of the province of Milan. L. Rosenthal, Munich. H. 153 m. B. 102 m. WALTHER, 105. FORKEL, 297. BECKER, 303. BRUNET, I, 1094. NICHOLAS BURCI of Parma. Nicolai Burtij parmensis: musices professoris ac | iuris pontificij studiosissimi: musices opusculum incipit cum defensione Guidonis aretini : aduersus quendam hyspanum veritatis preuaricatorem. Colophon (f. 68, 1. 27): Impensis Benedicti librarij bononiensis. ac suma industria | Ugonis de rugerijs: qui propatissimus huius artis exactor impressus Bononie. Anno domini m.cccc.lxxxvij. | die vltima aprilis. Quarto. 68 ff. 29 long lines to the full page, with spaces of 5, 4, 3, or 2 lines for the initial letters of chapters. Musical notation on a staff of 5 lines, printed from metal blocks. With diagrams. There are nine quires: a3-h3 i4. The volume is addressed to poor clerks and religious, and followed by a poem of 30 lines. The writer qualified as "quidam Hyspanus veritatis prevaricator" is Bartholomew Ramos da Pareja of Salamanca, a professor of music, who had settled at Bologna and had attacked the teaching of Guy of Arezzo, in a work published in that town in 1482. Earl Spencer, Althorp. H. 203 m. B. 142 m. Wants f. I. WALTHER, 120. DENIS, 226. Crevenna, II, 134, 2099. DE BURE, II, 540, 2040. B. Bolongaro- JOHN DOBNEK of Wendelstein, surnamed COCHLAEUS. 1480-1552. Tetrachordum Musi | ces Joannis Coclei | Norici. Artium Ma- gistri: Nurnberge nuper contextum : pro iuuentu- tis Laurentiane eruditione imprimis: dein ad ce- terorum in musicis Tyrunculorum salubriorem | planioremque eruditionem nunc prima | sui Aeditione Typis calcographo | rum exaratum. deo Au- | spice. in lucem. | prodit. Huius Tetrachordi Quattuor Tractatus: Primus de Musices elementis. Secundus de Musica Gregoriana. Tertius De Octo tonis Meli. Quartus De Musica mensurali Quorum quilibet decem capita complectitur. Colophon (f. 30 v.): Finis Tetrachordi Musices Nurnbergæ Im- | pressi In officina excusoria Io- | annis Stuchssen Anno | 1512. Quarto. 30 ff. The second edition of the Tetrachord in this form. It appeared originally at Cologne in 1507 with the title: Musica, but was entirely re-written and printed at Nürnberg in 1511, and again in 1512, 1514, and 1520. The Dedicatory epistle to Anthony Kress, provost of the church of S. Laurence at Nürnberg, is dated 24 Iune, 1511. Verses in praise of the author by Bilibald Pirckheimer and Chelidonius on the title-page. Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna. H. 198 m. B. 147 m. WILL, I, 205. BECKER, 276. HAWKINS, I, 306. FÉTIS, 11, 328. I. I. LOUIS FOGLIANI of Modena. MVSICA THEO | RICA | Ludouici Foliani Mutinensis : Colophon (f.45): ¶ Venetiis per Io. Antonium et Fratres de Folio. 2 and XLIIII ff., adorned with 6 cuts, numerous diagrams, and thirty-two ornamental versal letters. James E. Matthew. H. 302 m. B. 208 m. FORKEL, 242. (PANZER, BECKER, 231. FÉTIS, III, WALTHER, 252. B. Christ., 1, 410, 3886. JOHN FROSCH. RERVM | MVSICARVM | OPVSCVLVM RARVM AC IN- | signe, totius eius negotii rationem mira in- | dustria & breuitate complectens, iam | recens publicatum. IOAN. | FROSCHIO, | Autore, | ·.· Colophon (f. 39 v) : ARGENTORATI APVD PETRVM Schoeffer & Mathiam Apiarium. Anno Salutis | M.D.XXXV. Folio. 40 ff. in 7 quires: 1°A°-DEF without foliation. A large folding diagram between ff. 18 and 19. Dedicatory Epistle to George, Count of Wurtemberg and Montbéliard. Prefatory verses by Melchior Cumanus, and Frosch. Below the title is a pretty cut (H. 134 m. B. 135 m.), in the middle of which is a shield charged with a chevron coupé, between three roses, 2 and 1. On the left are a knight and a lady, and on the right two shepherds, one of whom is playing the bagpipes. Above the shield on a scroll, the motto: Ingenium vires superat; beneath it, the cypher of Hans Baldung Grien. This is probably the device of Peter Schoeffer. James E. Matthew. WALTHER, 265. H. 304 m. B. 194 m. Wants the last leaf. FORKEL, 366. HAWKINS, 1, 308. BECKER, 426. FÉTIS, III, 348. BRUNET, II, 14II. MENDEL, IV, 73. WECKERLIN, 122. FRANCIS GAFORI of Lodi. I. Franchini Gafori Laudensis theoricum opus armonice discipline. Impressum Neapolis per magistrum Franciscum di Dino, Florentinum. 1480, 8 Octobris. This volume consists of 116 ff., 26 long lines to the full page, with spaces of 7, 5 or 3 lines with small type indicators for the initial letters of the chapters. Without running title, signatures, or foliation. The quires have 8 ff. each, excepting the first, which has 12. Ff. 1 and 2 blank. F. 2 v., l. 1, LIBER PRIMVS HVIVS OPERIS. F. 3 v. CLARISSIMI AC PRESTANTISSIMI MVSICI FRANCHINI GAFORI | LAVDENSIS Theoricum opus musice | discipline Ad Reuerendissimum in christo patrem | dominum dominum Iohannem Arcimbol | dum miseratione diuina sacrosancte Roma | ne ecclesie prespiterum Cardinalem Nouariensem | PROHEMIVM. F.6. DE EFFECTIBVS ET COMENDA | TIONE MVSICE. Ends: alia uolumina diffusius locis congruis apperient | Et sic est Finis. Followed by a poem of 8 lines. S The colophon (f. 114 v.) runs thus: FRANCHINI Gafori Laudensis Musices professoris theoricum opus armonice discipline Explicit. Impressum Neapolis per Magi | strum Franciscum di dino. florentinum. Anno | domini. M.CCCC.LXXX. Die octauo octo | bris. Inuictissimo Rege Ferdinando regnante. Anno regni eius vigessimo tertio. The Register follows, occupying the recto of f. 115. Ff. 115 v. and 116 are blank. The volume is adorned with 7 diagrams (ff. 33 v., 55, 56, 62 v. and 112 v.) and two full-page cuts (ff. 18 and 102), the one (H. 149 m. B. 122 m.) representing six youths striking an anvil with hammers of different sizes; the other (H. 204 m. B. 104 m.) a cleric, seated, playing an organ with one row of pipes. F. 98 v. is left blank for the insertion of the Hymn for the Nativity of S. John Baptist : Ut queant laxis. 1. Earl Spencer, Althorp. H. 208 m. B. 135 m. H. 205 m. B. 130 m. MAITTAIRE, I, 406. BURETTE, 60. MERCIER, 97. BURNEY, III, 152. -Second Edition. Mediolani. 2. Folio. 1492, 15 Decembris. Title: THEORICA MVSICE FRANCHINI GAFVRI | LAVDENSIS. F. 3 V. AD MAGNANIMVM ET PIENTISSIMVM DOMINVM LODO | VICVM MARIAM SPHORTIAM PRINCIPIS EXCELLENTISSIMI : ET REI MEDIOLANEN- SIS GVBER NATOREM : FRANCHINI GAFVRI LAVDENSIS | IN DELVBRI MAIORIS F. 4 v. Ad Lectorem. Quisquis ades: cuius digitis dictata teruntur. 18 lines. F.5. DE MVSICIS ET EFFECTIBVS ATQVE COMENDATIONE | MVSICE DISCIPLINE. Great part of the work re-written, many alterations. Ends f. 65: sed latius horum progressiones & formulas in pri- | mo pratica disposuimus. | FINIS. followed by CARMEN LANCINI CVRTII, which occupies 6 pp., and ends with a eulogium of Gafori. F. 68 v. Blank. |