vdm16

vdm16
Verzeichnis deutscher Musikdrucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Catalogue of sixteenth-century German printed music

Cantiones selectissimae LXVIII, vocum trium.

[Frankfurt am Main]: [Christian Egenolff], [1536 c.], vdm: 30

BASICS

Title page:

CANTIONES SELE⸗||CTISSIMÆ LXVIII. VOCVM || TRIVM▸|| TENOR▸||

[other partbook:]
[DISCANTVS] (title page of the single copy is missing)
[third partbook lost]

Printer:

[Christian Egenolff]

Place of printing:

[Frankfurt am Main]

Year:

[1536 c.]

Further information on dating: N. Brigdman dates this edition to between 1532 and 1535, on the basis of the watermark. Bertz assigns it, following Müller, to “after 1536.” The most recent catalogue by Gustavson gives the date c. December 1536. Former title: 68 Tricinia.

Type of source:

Polyphonic music book

Catalogue references:

vdm

Further details:

Only two partbooks (Discantus and Tenor) of three are extant. A manuscript copy of the lost Bassus is at D-HB X/2, nos. 1-31 (Gustavson, Egenolff Catalogue). Assigned to Egenolff by N. Bridgeman. This edition is not in RISM. Nr. 14-25 are taken from vdm 15 (Gustavson, Egenolff Catalogue). A copy of this edition was held in the city library of Utrecht; see Bibliothecae Traiectinae catalogus (Utrecht: Rhodius, 1608), Qq2v.

Paratexts:

K7r-K8r (end of the Tenor partbook): Register, in alphabetic order by text incipit.

Comments on paratexts:

Index of pieces with incipits in Bridgman.

Illustrations:

Title page of the Tenor partbook: woodcuts of a crow or raven, and of a bird on a branch. The woodcuts on the title page appear to be from the same set as those in the February 1535 edition of the Gassenhawerlin (vdm 21).

Language:

Italian; Latin; High German; French

Format:

16º oblong

Printed area: 78 x 50 mm

Number of leaves:

80 (T), 80 (D)

Collation: Tenor: aa-kk8, Discantus: ll-vv8

Original foliation:

None, but the pieces are numbered I-LXVIII.

Autopsy copy:

F-Pn RES VM7-504/3

Online facsimile:

F-Pn

F-Pn RES VM7-504/3, ll2r

F-Pn RES VM7-504/3, ll2v