tig00005000

Text-inc Id:

tig00005000

Bod-inc Id:

G-003

Headings:

Gafurius, Franchinus Theorica musicae.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1v] [Table of contents.]
2. [a2v] Gafurius, Franchinus: [Dedicatory preface, addressed to] Johannes Arcimboldus, Cardinal-Archbishop of Milan. ‘Prohemium.’ Incipit: ‘[V]tra mihi sententia plus placeat, reuerendissime pater . . .’ Explicit: commendo atque trado See Thorndike–Kibre 1627.
3. [b2r] Gafurius, Franchinus: Theorica musicae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuturni studii lectione deprehendi musicen . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 440, and Ouseley, 82.
4. [p6v] [Verse.] Incipit: ‘O cui cardineum licuit contingere honorem | Et me quem virtus inpulit ut venerer'; 4 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Naples: Francesco di Dino, 8 Oct. 1480. 4°.

Collation:

[a⁴ b–p⁸]. Eight woodcuts: see Sander.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00005000 GW 10436; Goff G‑5; BMC VI 867; Pr 6721; Duggan 206, no. 14; Fava–Bresciano 170; Oates 2521; Sander 2981; not in Sheppard. LCN: 10443787

Copies:

1. G-003(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaf [p8]. Leaf [n6v] blank. Binding: Nineteenth-century(?) parchment with coloured fillets in red and blue, and marbled pastedowns. Bound by G. Woolley. Size: 197 × 147 × 28 mm. Size of leaf: 188 × 134 mm. Occasional early annotations, particularly on the woodcuts; some notes apparently washed out; contemporary annotations added to several illustrations, washed but still legible. Some three-line initials are supplied in red; other initials apparently washed out. Book numbers are supplied in the upper margin at the beginning of each book. Provenance: Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825-1889), 2nd Bt. Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, St Michael's College; note by C. W. James (†1942), dated 25 Oct. 1931, concerning this and other editions of Gafurius's works which were owned by Ouseley and St Michael's College; former Tenbury shelfmarks: K.1.32; D.1.60. Purchased in 1990, through the Friends of the National Libraries. SHELFMARK: Tenbury e.1.