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Subject(s)

• Music—Europe [Browse]
• Music theory—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Dedicatee

• Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1452-1508 [Browse]

Related name

• Conago, Lucino, active 1496 [Browse]

Printer

• Britanicus, Angelus [Browse]

Former owner

• Offenbacher, Emil [Browse]
• Hauck, Cornelius J. (Cornelius John), 1893-1967 [Browse]

Notes

• Title from title page on leaf [pi1] recto.
• Imprints from colophon on leaf ll5 verso, which reads in full: Impressa Brixiæ opera & impensa Angeli Britannici: anno salutis Millesimo quatrin-/gentesimononagesimoseptimo : nono Kalen[das] : Octobris [23 September, 1497].
• Reprinted, with the same quiring and mostly with the same page-contents, from the edition of Le Signerre, Milan, 1496 (ISTC ig00003000), with diagrams and examples possibly printed from Le Signerre's original blocks, but not the title-cut and borders: see BM 15th cent., VII, 979.
• Full-page woodcut diagrams on leaves a2 verso and d6 recto, the first entitled "Diatonicum Guidonis Introductorium Pythagorea dimensione dispositum"; musical notation on 5-line staves throughout.
• Space left blank for initial, with printed guide letter, on leaf a1 recto.
• Signatures: [pi]⁴ a-b⁸ c⁶ aa-kk⁸ ll⁶. Last leaf ll6 blank.
• Eight/nine-line capital spaces on a1r, 2a1r and 2c6r with guide letters. Smaller woodcut capitals.
• ExI copy: Contains contemporary marginalia and lengthy musical example in white mensural notation, without text, penned in ink in lower margin of last two leaves.

Binding note

ExI copy: Late 19th-century brown calf, tooled in gilt, inner dentelles, gilt edges.

Contents

[Title page], [pi1]r; [printer's register], [pi1]v; [Table of contents], [pi2]v-[pi3]r; Franchinus Gafurius. [Dedication letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sfortia, Duke of Milan, [pi3]v-[pi4]v; Lucinus Conagus. Carmen, incipit "Et iuuat : & uellem meritas tibi reddere laudes:", panegyric poem in 11 elegiac distichs, [pi4]v; Franchinus Gafurius. Practica musicae, Books 1-4, a1r-ll5v; colophon, ll5v.

Provenance

ExI copy: Provenance: Emil Offenbacher (purchased March 1946); Cornelius J. Hauck (bookplate on front pastedown).

References

• BM 15th cent., VII, 979, and XII, 70
• Goff, G4
• GW, 10435 (with digital facsimile)
• Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 7408
• ISTC, ig00004000
• Klebs, 431.2
• Oates, 2626
• Wild, M.F. Incunabula in the libraries of the University of London, 123; Proctor 6995.

Place name(s)

Italy Brescia.

Other title(s)

Musicae utriusque cantus practica excellentis Franchini Gafori Laudensis libris quattuor modu latissima

OCLC

878027169

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