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| Id |
27661 |
| Category |
antiquarian music |
| Author / Composer |
REISCH, Gregor (1467-1525) |
| Title |
[Margarita philosophica, rationalis, moralis philosophiae principia, duodecim libris dialogice coplectens]. |
| Place |
Basileae |
| Publisher |
Excudebat Henricus Petrus, ac Conradi Reschij impensis |
| Publication Date |
1535 |
| ISBN / Plate No. |
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| Series |
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| Size |
8vo. pp.767-1498 (lacking pp.801-804), [viii]. |
| Description |
Panelled vellum covered boards, raised bands, clasps missing. A few leaves with water-staining at lower margins. Illustrations; wide-margined copy. Including the music section on pp.1245-1280. Reisch was a "German scholar and music theorist. He studied at Freiburg University, becoming magister in 1489, and at Ingolstadt University, and then entered the Carthusian order. He was prior of the monasteries of Klein-Basel (1500–02) and Freiburg (1503–25). He was in close contact with the best humanists of his time, was one of Johannes Eck's teachers, and was considered one of Germany's most learned men; Erasmus referred to him as an ‘oracle’ among the Germans. Reisch's Margarita philosophica (Freiburg, 1503) was an enormously popular Latin dialogue textbook and was frequently reissued; its last edition appeared in 1600. The fifth book is divided into two parts, concerning the ‘principles’ and ‘practice’ of music, and cites such authorities as Pythagoras, Plato, Augustine, Boethius and al-F?r?b?" (Grove Music Online). |
| Reference |
RISM B/VI/2 p.695. |
| Price |
£500.00 |
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