Accession number
PML 392
Creator
Gaffurius, Franchinus, 1451-1522.
Object title
Practica musice Franchini Gafori laudensis.
Published
Impressum Mediolani : Opera & impensa Ioannis Petri de Lomatio per Guillermum Signerre Rothomagensem, Anno salutis milessimo quadrigentessimo nonagessimo sexto die vltimo Septembris. [30 September 1496]
Description
[112] leaves : illustrations, music (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, with woodcut illustration ([Gamma]1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf ll5v): "Impressa Mediolani opera & impensa Ioannis Petri de Lomatio per Guillermum Signerre Rothomagensem anno salutis milessimo quadringentessimo nonagessimo sexto dei vltimo Septembris. Alexandro sexto Po[n]tifice maximo: & Maximiliano Romanorum rege semper augusto ac Lodouico maria Sfortia Anglo inuictissimo Mediolanensium Duce: foelici auspicio regnantibus. "
Signatures: [Gamma]⁴; a-b⁸ c⁶ aa-kk⁸ ll⁶: 112 leaves, leaf ll6 blank.
Printed in Le Signerre's types 1:111R and 2:82G.
Paper format: Chancery folio
In 4 books, the first page of each within a decorated border.
"Registrum huius operis.": title-page verso ([Gamma]1v).
On the woodcuts, see James Haar, "The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)," Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1974) pp. 7-22.
Space left for minor initials in main body of text, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.3 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf ll5v): "Impressa Mediolani opera & impensa Ioannis Petri de Lomatio per Guillermum Signerre Rothomagensem anno salutis milessimo quadringentessimo nonagessimo sexto dei vltimo Septembris. Alexandro sexto Po[n]tifice maximo: & Maximiliano Romanorum rege semper augusto ac Lodouico maria Sfortia Anglo inuictissimo Mediolanensium Duce: foelici auspicio regnantibus. "
Signatures: [Gamma]⁴; a-b⁸ c⁶ aa-kk⁸ ll⁶: 112 leaves, leaf ll6 blank.
Printed in Le Signerre's types 1:111R and 2:82G.
Paper format: Chancery folio
In 4 books, the first page of each within a decorated border.
"Registrum huius operis.": title-page verso ([Gamma]1v).
On the woodcuts, see James Haar, "The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)," Renaissance Quarterly 27 (1974) pp. 7-22.
Space left for minor initials in main body of text, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.3 cm.
Binding
17th/18th-century(?) Italian stiff parchment over paper boards (28 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified French library or sale catalogue (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 2a, 19/3/98 and price code: sl/-/- (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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