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.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
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