Plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke
Description:
BEIN Osborn fpa22: Illustrated title page hand-colored in green, red and tan. Autograph: Thos. Martin. Contemporary manuscript notes and markings. Armorial bookplate of John Whipple Frothingham (1878-1935), nephew and heir of William August White (1843-1927)., Title within illustrated border., Leaf [par.]4r has third and fourth bar of music in red and black; verso of 2nd leaf and recto of 3rd leaf of final gathering in red and black., Signatures: [A]² B-2A⁴ 2B⁶ [par.]⁴ *⁴ [three dots in a pyramid]⁴., Entered to P. Short and W. Hoskins 9 October 1596., and Errata on second leaf of final gathering.
Publisher:
By Peter Short dwelling on Breedstreet hill at the signe of the Starre
Manuscript on paper (unidentified watermarks are faint and obscured by ink) of Ptolemy, Harmonicorum libri III
Description:
In Greek., Script: Written in a neat Greek minuscule by Camillus Venetus., Book and chapter headings and 3-line initials in red. Many delicately drawn diagrams illustrating the text: tones, harmonics, scales, modes, the zodiac., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Original sewing with two strands of thread on five single supports adhered to the inside of the boards. Plain wound endbands are sewn on vegetable fiber cores which are laced into pasteboards. The square spine is lined all along with vellum. The edges are lavender. Covered in black goatskin, blind-tooled with a large diamond in concentric borders made up of flowers, foliage and heads in medallions. Two ribbon fastenings now wanting, as is some spine lining and leather.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Subject (Topic):
Charts, diagrams, etc, Greek literature, Hellenistic, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Music theory
Manuscript on paper of 1) Nicomachus Gerasenus, Harmonicum enchiridion, I-II. 2) Gaudentius, Introductio harmonica
Description:
In Greek., Watermarks: similar to Harlfinger Croix 42; a similar watermark occurs in Beinecke MSS 273 and 274., Script: Written and signed by the scribe Andreas Darmarius, who completed the work in Venice on 26 March 1585., Much rubrication of the text. Small initials, 3- to 1-line, some with floral motifs. Simple headpieces in black and red at beginning of each section., and Binding: Sixteenth century. Lavender edges. Tan leather, flesh side out, over wooden boards with a blind-tooled X and a single line border on each. Probably by the same binder who bound MS 301; almost certainly done in the same bindery.
