tig00006000

Text-inc Id:

tig00006000

Bod-inc Id:

G-004

Headings:

Gafurius, Franchinus Theorica musicae.

Analysis of content:

1. [*1r] [Title-page.]
2. [*1v] [Corrigenda.]
3. [*2r] ‘Capitula.’
4. [*3v] Gafurius, Franchinus: [Letter addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza. Incipit: ‘[Q]uorum magis sententiae accedere debeam maxime aeui tui, rector Lodouice Sphortia . . .’ Explicit: acceperit dignus habeatur. Vale Saxius 503-4.
5. [*4v] [Verse, addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Quisquis ades cuius digitis dictata teruntur | Nostra bonus quisquam si tamen ista terit'; 9 elegiac distichs.
6. a1r Gafurius, Franchinus: Theorica musicae. Incipit: ‘[D]iuturni studii lectione depraehendi musices . . .’ See Thorndike–Kibre 440.
7. k5r Curtius, Lancinus: ‘Carmen.’ Incipit: ‘[D]icamus numeris Therpsicore genus | Diuum quae modulos pyeri corrigis'; poem in lesser Asclepiads.

Imprint:

Milan: Philippus de Mantegatiis, Cassanus, for Johannes Petrus de Lomatio, 15 Dec. 1492. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁴] a⁸ b–i⁶ k⁸. Woodcuts.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ig00006000 GW 10437; HCR 7406 = H 7405; Goff G‑6; BMC VI 785, XII 55; Pr 6055; Duggan 206, no. 15; Oates 2319-20; Sander 2982; Sheppard 5026. LCN: 14831424

Copies:

1. G-004(1) Copy Binding: Twentieth-century half maroon morocco, bound for the Bodleian Library. Size: 290 × 206 × 17 mm. Size of leaf: 282 × 191 mm. Some early marginal annotations. Provenance: Domenico Quilici (fifteenth/sixteenth century?); inscription on [*1r]: ‘Domenico Quilici'. Lucca, Tuscany, Carthusians, Spiritus Sanctus; inscriptions on [*1r]: ‘Cartusie Luce' and ‘Domus Luce', on b3r: ‘Lucane Cartusie.’ Purchased on 29 June 1888 from Albert Cohn, Catalogue 190, no. 427, for 225 Marks; see Library Bills (1888). SHELFMARK: Auct. Q sup. 1.31.