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15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music, in which the text reflects an older (10th-century) tradition and the numerous diagrams related to ratio and pitch demonstrate later developments in the tradition.
Support: paper; Extent: 52 leaves : 281 x 204 (206 x 142) mm. bound to 291 x 211 mm; Collation: Paper, 52; 1¹²(missing first 2 leaves) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6⁴; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 2 columns of 39-41 lines; ruled in lead, with little of the ruling now visible.
Written in semi-humanistic script.
Diagrams and tables throughout in various combinations of red, blue, and brown ink; 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red or blue; headings, roman numerals in text, and a few marginal notes in red; capitals touched with red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Title supplied by cataloger.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
France, ca. 1490
Written in France, ca. 1490.
Early 18th-century (?) parchment over pasteboard with parchment-cord clasps and pastedowns and endleaves with the watermark S. Bartolomeo Delle Fabbriche; Boeci De Music Ms. written on spine in ink.
Latin
Sold by J & J Lubrano to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
France, ca. 1490
Written in France, ca. 1490.
Latin
Sold by J & J Lubrano to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
15th-century copy of a Latin treatise on the Pythagorean-based theory of ancient Greek music, in which the text reflects an older (10th-century) tradition and the numerous diagrams related to ratio and pitch demonstrate later developments in the tradition.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in semi-humanistic script.
Diagrams and tables throughout in various combinations of red, blue, and brown ink; 2-line initials and paragraph marks in red or blue; headings, roman numerals in text, and a few marginal notes in red; capitals touched with red.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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