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tib01331000

Text-inc Id:
tib01331000
Bod-inc Id:
B-619
Headings:
Burtius, Nicolaus Opusculum musices.
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r Burtius, Nicolaus: [Prefatory letter, in defence of Guido d'Arezzo, addressed to poor clerics and members of religious orders.] Nicolaus Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Giuseppe Massera (Florence, 1975), 53-6.
  2. a3v Burtius, Nicolaus: ‘Descriptio libelli'. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 56-7.
  3. a4v Burtius, Nicolaus: Opusculum musices. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 59-127, 135-80. See Nicolaus Burtius, Musices opusculum, trans. Clement A. Miller, Musicological Studies and Documents, 37 (Neuhausen and Stuttgart, 1983).
  4. i3v Burtius, Nicolaus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Dulcia qui temptas vocum modulamina scire | Hunc eme qui facili sub breuitate docet'; 15 elegiac distichs. Burtius, Florum libellus, ed. Massera, 180-1.
Imprint:
Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, for Benedictus Hectoris, 30 Apr. 1487. 4°.
Collation:
a–h8 i4. Ten woodcuts, four schematic and six of musical notation.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01331000 GW 5796; HC *4145; Goff B‑1331; BMC VI 807, XII 58; Pr 6565; CIBN B‑938; Oates 2483; Sander 1472; Sheppard 5313. LCN: 13985039
Copies:
  1. B-619(1) Copy Formerly bound in 4° F 13 Art. with:
    J. Faber Stapulensis, Musica. Paris, 1552;
    Compendium, sive Tractatus, musices. Venice: Johannes Baptista Sessa, 21 Nov. 1499 (C‑404);
    MS. Bodl. 77;
    Bonaventura de Brixia, Regula musice plane. [Milan]: n. pr., 1501;
    Hugo de Sancto Caro, Expositio missae, seu Speculum ecclesiae. [Rome: Johannes Reinhardi, c.1476] (H‑234); removed and rebound separately in May 1822; see manuscript note in 4o F 13 Art.; but see the unsigned note by David Rogers on verso of front endleaf stating that the items were bound separately between 1620 and 1655. Binding: Nineteenth-century grey calf with gold fillets; bound for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Size: 191 × 144 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 184 × 132 mm. Proverbs in an early hand on a1r: ‘Virtus laudata crescit' (Walther, Proverbia, 33679a), ‘Virtus unita est fortior omnium', ‘Moderata durant' (Walther, Proverbia, 14994), ‘Nichil crudelius quam familiaris inimicus', ‘Nichil crudelius infesta muliere'; also Greek translation of the last Latin proverb. Provenance: Acquired by 1605: see James, Catalogus (1605), 296. Former Bodleian shelfmark: 4° F 13 Art. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.6.