[De institutione musica]

Name:

Boethius, -524

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; 500-1400

Date:

1490

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

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

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333031; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs47.html

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Diagrams; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

52 leaves : paper, color illustrations; 281 x 204 (206 x 142) mm bound to 291 x 211 mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 52; 1¹²(missing first 2 leaves) 2-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6⁴; [1-52]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 39-41 lines; ruled in lead, with little of the ruling now visible.; Script: Written in semi-humanistic script.; 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.; 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).; 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.; Origin: Written in France, ca. 1490.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 47

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)