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De consonantiis seu pro diatessaron libri duo, 1581

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Record ID cp010701
Voet reference number1946
Museum Plantin-Moretus
Author Andreas PAPIUS (DE PAPE)
Title page transcriptionAND. PAPII ‖ GANDENSIS ‖ DE ‖ CONSONANTIIS, ‖ SEV ‖ PRO DIATESSARON ‖ LIBRI DVO. ‖ ⊕ 21 ‖ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ Ex officina Christophori Plantini, ‖ Architypographi Regij. ‖ M.D.LXXXI.
Collation8⁰[141]: A-O⁸, P⁴; pages 1-208, [209-232]
Fingerprint158108 - # b1 A2 ,$tar : # b2 P2 nc
Number of sheets14.50
Pages[1]: Title [2]: Blank 3-6: Ad…Ernestum, comitem Palatinum Rheni, utriusque Bavariae ducem, electum Leodiensem, etc. Andreae Papii praefatio (part in italic type) 7-198: Text (italic type, parts in roman type and music, words in greek type) 199-203: Table (parts in italic type) 204-208: Andreas Papius benevolis musicis signed by (parts in music) 208: approbation (s. Waltherus vander Steeghen, Antwerp) [209-230]:Music (text in gothic type and roman type) [231]: Errata [232]: Blank
Edition information
IllustrationsWoodcuts, with mathematical figures, on pages 37, 73, 86
CopiesMuseum Plantin-Moretus- A 583Municipal Library BolognaKBR Royal Library of BelgiumGhent University LibraryLeiden University LibrariesBritish Library LondonBayerische StaatsbibliothekBibliothèque nationale de FranceCentral Library of Charles University - Prague (Czechoslovakia)Library of Congress - Washington D.C. (USA)UNamur- R6A.0517
Bibliographical referencesRuelens-de Backer, page 227 (1581, no. 21) A. Goovaerts, Histoire et bibliographie de la typographie musicale dans les Pays-Bas, 1880, page 257 A. Davidsson, Bibliographie der musiktheoretischen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, Baden-Baden, 1962, page 62Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica 3928
Online bibliographical referencesSTCV c:stcv:12916346USTC 401869
Note 1Interesting study on the technique of music, in which the author tries to prove that the crotchet is a consonance (pages 7-198); followed by some music-examples ([209-320]), introduced by an explanatory foreword to the reader (204-208).
Note 2According to Biographie Nationale [de Belgique], a reprint, with some changes, of an edition issued in 1568, in Antwerp, under the title De consonantiis, sive harmoniis musicis contra vulgarem opinionem. In the dedicatory and other explanatory parts the author says nothing about an eventual previous publication, but the possibility cannot be ruled out that the dedicatory belongs in fact to an older edition.
Note 3In a letter to Papius, 15 February 1581 (Corr., VI, no. 916), Plantin declared himself willing to publish the work that the canon would send him ('Interea vero si tuum opus miseris illico auspicabor Deo favente'), meaning very likely the De consonantiis….
Note 4It is not sure if the printing was finished before the death of the author, but anyway copies were mailed before 18 November 1581 (letter to G. Tegnagel: Corr., VII, no. 962).
Note 5Listed in M 296, folio 14v (Papius And. De consonantiis, in 8⁰, 1581, f[euilles] 14½, [price:] stuivers 6), and Ms. 321.
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