Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De institutione musica

Authors

• Boethius, -524
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Call number

Oversize LJS 47
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948510003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779360003
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pw86 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333031 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs47.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4851000

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France, ca. 1490

Summary

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.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet, Soleil, 13977 (Fleurus and Namur, 1487-1491) and 13979 (variants made in France and used in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Rhineland, 1512-1540).

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

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.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 39-41 lines; ruled in lead, with little of the ruling now visible.

Decoration

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.

Script

Written in semi-humanistic script.

Provenance

• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
   
• Sold by J & J Lubrano to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Music theory--History--500-1400
• Music, Greek and Roman--Early works to 1800

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Diagrams
• History
• Paper
• France
• French

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Table, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Table, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Table, f. 13r
• fol. 13v — Table, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Table, f. 14r
• fol. 15r — Table, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Table, f. 15v
• fol. 16r — Table, f. 16r
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 19v — Table, f. 19v
• fol. 20r — Table, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Table, f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Diagram, f. 21v
• fol. 22r — Diagram, f. 22r
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Diagram, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 24v — Diagram, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Diagram, f. 25r
• fol. 25v — Diagram, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Diagram, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 27v — Diagram, f. 27v
• fol. 28r — Diagram, f. 28r
• fol. 28v — Diagram, f. 28v
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 29v — Diagram, f. 29v
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 31r — Diagram, f. 31r
• fol. 31v — Diagram, f. 31v
• fol. 32r — Diagram, f. 32r
• fol. 32v — Diagram, f. 32v
• fol. 33v — Diagram, f. 33v
• fol. 34v — Diagram, f. 34v
• fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
• fol. 35v — Diagram, f. 35v
• fol. 36v — Diagram, f. 36v
• fol. 37r — Diagram, f. 37r
• fol. 37v — Diagram, f. 37v
• fol. 38v — Diagram, f. 38v
• fol. 39r — Diagram, f. 39r
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 41r — Diagram, f. 41r
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 44r — Diagram, f. 44r
• fol. 44v — Table, f. 44v
• fol. 45r — Table, f. 45r