Il Melone; but this letter of Melone's is dated May 28, 1591, and Il Desiderio was re-published at Milan in 1601 with Melone's name as author on the title-page. The chief interest of the book lies in the information it contains as to the composition of an orchestra at the end of the sixteenth century.

James E. Matthew. H. 207 m. B. 150 m.

BECKER, 466. HAWKINS, I, 445. FÉTIS, VI, 75. BRUNET, III, 1593.
WECKERLIN, 48.

MUSICA.

18 ff. in 3 quires with signatures: A B Co. Teutonic and modern musical notation printed from metal types.

F.iv. A diagram headed Introductorium musice. F. 2. De definitione Musice | eiusque diuisione. | Musica est recte modulandi scientia. Et deducitur. F. 17, last line: Finis contrapuncti simplicis. F. 18, 1. 2. Tercie duralis Tritura septima.

L Rosenthal, Munich. H. 169 m. B. 128 m.

FÉTIS, III, 460. BRUNET, Suppl., 1, 1134.

OTHMAR NACHTGALL (Luscinius) of Strassburg.

1487-1536.

MVSICAE INSTITVTIONES | Othmari Nachtgall Argentini a nemine un- quam prius pari facilitate tentatæ, stu- | diosis, qui àμúσ esse nolint non | mediocriter conducibiles. | Ioannes Knoblouch notis æreis | excepit Argentoraci.

Quarto. 1off.; 34 long lines to the full page. Without running title, catchwords, or foliation. Signatures: a1 bo.

The title is printed within an architectural framework of the Renaissance style adorned with figures of boys and animals. The dedication to Symphorian Pollio and John Rudolphing, vicars of the cathedral of Strassburg, is dated 5 August, 1515.

L. Rosenthal, Munich. H. 169 m. B. 128 m.

B. Christ., 1, 411, 3898. PANZER, XI, 362.
378. BRUNET, III, 1238. BOHN, 17.

BECKER, 277. FÉTIS, V,
MENDEl, vi, 472.

JOHN PLAYFORD.

A BREIF INTRODUCTION | To the Skill of MUSICK :| FOR SONG and VIOL. In two Books. First Book contains the Grounds and Rules of | Musick for Song. Second Book, Directions for the Playing on the Viol de Gambo, and also on the Treble-Violin. | (Vignette: An open music book and three instruments in an oval with the motto: + MVSICA LÆTIFICAT COR.)| By J. Playford, Philo Musico. | London, Printed by W. Godbid, for John Playford, at his Shop in the Inner Temple, neer the | Church dore. M.DC.LVIII. Oct. 8 and 80 pp. with 2 illustrations.

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The second edition of this work, and the only known copy. copy of the first edition, dated 1655, is in the Library of the Royal College of Music. A third edition was published in 1662. The thirteenth appeared in 1697.

T. W. Taphouse. H. 150 m. B. 102 m.

BECKER, 287. HAWKINS, II, 694. FÉTIS, VII, 75. MEndel, viii, 123. GROVE, III, 2. WECKERLIN, 225.

BALTHASAR PRASPERG of Merseburg.

Clarissima plane atque choralis musice interpretatio | Domini Balthasser Praspergij Mer | spurgensis. cum certissimis regulis atque Exemplorum Annotationibus et figuris multum splendidis. Jn | Alma Basileorum

vniuersitate exercitata.

Colophon (f. 23 v.): Finis musices ex Orphei lyra et Sa | phus cythara manate atque per venerabilem | dominum Balthasser Praspergium Merspur- gensem Jn nobili ac preclaro Basileorum studio proceltico diligentia exactissima examinate. | Rogatu tandem auditorum per prouidum vi- | rum Michaelem Furter Ciuem Basiliensem im- | presse. Anno christiane salutis super millesimo quingentesimo: septimo.

Quarto. 24 ff. in 3 quires, printed from type of four founts, with 36 long lines to the full page, and a folding table of the Greek

and Latin scales compared with each other, between ff. 20 and 21. Without running title, foliation or catchwords. Teutonic musical notation on a staff of 4 lines. Signatures: A B12 C4.

The title-page is adorned with a cut (H. 102 m. B.94 m.) representing a man pointing to a large scroll on which are inscribed the notes of the scale: ut re mi fa sol la, and, opposite to him, a maiden crowned with a garland of leaves, playing on a harp. The printer's device is placed beneath the colophon.

Two previous editions of this treatise were printed by M. Furter in 1501 and 1504.

James E. Matthew. H. 198 m. B. 140 m.

GRAS, 186. FORKEL, 297. PANZER, VI, 178, 30. FÉTIS, VII, 115.
BRUNET, IV, 857. MENDEL, VIII, 161. WECKerlin, 234.

GREGORY REISCH.

Margarita Philosophica. Argentinae, per Ioannem Grüninger. 1504, 23 Februarii. Quarto.

287 ff. in 37 quires, with three full-page and a number of smaller cuts, diagrams, storied and ornamental capital letters. Signatures: B C D E3 F28 G3 H6 18 K L M3 No 06 P2 Q3 R6 S2 т3 у3 Xб y3 zo a3 b1 c2 d e f g h i k l m n o p3.

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Title: ΑΕΡΙΤΟΜΑ OMNIS PHYLOSOPHIAE. ALI- | AS MARGARITA PHYLOSOPHICA TRACTANS de omni genere scibili: Cum additionibus Quæ in alijs non habentur.

The Treatise on Music, placed between those on practical Arithmetic and speculative Geometry, occupies the 14ff. included in the quires o and P.

Colophon: Explicit phylosophica Margarita. Castigatione acri | In nobili Helueciorum ciuitate Argentina chalchogra- | phatum : Per Ioannem Grüninger Ciuem Argentinum: in vigilia | Mathie Anno incarnationis Saluatoris M.ccccc.iiij. | Valete et Plaudite.

The third edition of this work; the first was published at Heidelberg on 30 December, 1496, the second at Freiburg in Brisgau in 1503.

Gregory Reisch was prior of the Charterhouse outside Freiburg, and confessor of the Emperor Maximilian.

T. W. Taphouse. H. 217 m. B. 154 m.

FORKEL, 363. HIRSCH, III, 2. B. Thott., VII, 158. PANZER, VI, 30, 37.
FÉTIS, VII, 220. BRUNET, IV, 1200.

WECKERLIN, 249.

MENDEL, VIII, 291.

JAMES VAN DEN RIJNE.

Tractatus breuis Jacobi de re no decani grauiensis Et canonici ecclesie sanctorum apostolorum Colo niensis in laudem musice artis Et de eius vtilitatibus Prologus.

Colophon(f. 14 v.): Finit Tractatus artis musice Jmpres | sus Antwerpie per me Gerardum leonis Anno | incarnationis Millesimo quadringentesi- | mo nonagesimoprimo: quinta die mensis | Julij.

Octavo. 16 ff. in two quires, 24 long lines to the full page, with one ornamental capital letter, and with the printer's mark on f. 16 v. Sign: d3 e3.

This treatise was written at the request of Dr. Bertram Baw, rector of the University, and canon and cantor of the church of the Holy Apostles at Coeln. It was issued with the "Dyalogus de sene et iuuene de | amore disputantibus," by the same author, 22 ff. with sign. : a b3 c.

Lambeth Palace Library. H. 131 m. B. 88 m.

BRUNET, IV, 1234.

FRANCIS SALINAS of Burgos.

1512–1590.

FRANCISCI SA LINAE BVRGENSIS ABBATIS SANCTI

PANCRATII de Rocca Scalegna in regno Neapolitano, & in Academia Salmanticensi | Musica Professoris, de Musica libri Septem, in quibus eius doctrina | veritas tam quæ ad Harmoniam, quam quæ ad Rhythmum pertinet, iuxta sensus ac rationis iudicium ostenditur, & demonstratur. | CVм duplici Indice Capitum & Rerum. | Arms of Roderic de Castro, Bishop of Zamora, ensigned with an episcopal hat tasselled; at the sides, vertically, are these lines: ¶ Hæc ODORICE tuis cognomen CASTRA dederunt : | Vel defensa diu, vel citò capta manu. | SALMANTICÆ Excudebat Mathias Gastius. M.D.LXXVII.

Folio. 8 ff. and 456 pp.

Printer's device on p. 456.

The

edition of 1592 is identical with this with the exception of the title. James E. Matthew. H. 294 m. B. 202 m.

FORKEL, 379. HAWKINS, I, 404. BRUNET, v, 77.

FÉTIS, VII, 382.

MENDEL, VIII, 29.

WECKERLIN, 254.

JOHN SPANGENBERG of Hardeisen.

1484-1550.

QVESTIO- NES MVSICAE IN VSVM SCHO-læ Northusianæ, per IOHAN. SPANG. | Herdessianum collectæ, Diligen- | terque ab Autore re- cognitæ. (A shield with an eagle displayed, crowned.) | Vitebergæ. | ANNO. M.D.XLII. Colophon (f. 40) beneath a cut of a shield charged with an eagle displayed nimbed : Vitebergæ apud Georgium | Rhau. Anno |

M.D. XLII.

Octavo. 40 ff. in 5 quires, without foliation or running title, but with catchwords to every page. With Teutonic musical notation on a staff of 5 lines, and diagrams. Signatures: A-E3. The dedication of this Catechism of Music is dated 12 August, 1536. At the commencement and end are verses by the author and by John Steigel. The first edition was published by George Rhau at Wittenberg in 1536, the second at Leipzig in 1538. Six or seven other editions were issued at Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Coeln.

James E. Matthew. H. 143 m. B. 87 m.

FORKEL, 304. FÉTIS, VIII, 75.

WECKERLIN, 263.

MENDEL, IX, 347. BOHN, 26.

MICHAEL SCHULZ (Praetorius), of Kreutzberg.

1572-1621.

SYNTAGMA MUSICUM, | ex VETERUM | et RECENTIORUM, | Ecclesiasticorum autorum lectione, Polyhistorûm consignatione, | Variarum linguarum notatione, | Hodierni seculi usurpatione, | ipsius denique | Musicae artis observatione: | In

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