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![4to (193 x 136 mm.). [i blank], [112], [1 blank] leaves. PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK, MUSIC THROUGHOUT, Gothic type for choral text, six 4-line staves per page, floriated white-line woodcut initials (some guide letters), an Ungut and Polonus device (Vindel, Escudos fig. 20). 16th century blind stamped brown calf over wooden boards (repaired), panels alike with medallion and vine roll borders, acorns and daisies in the center around an oval half-figure saint (front) and cross of Calatrava (rear), crowned lion repeated on the spine, two brass catches, one clasp, yellow edges.First Edition of the First Spanish Book with Printed Music of which a complete copy survives. THIS IS A TREASURE TROVE OF MEDIEVAL POPULAR MUSIC. The binding’s overall decor and the Cross of Calatrava on the rear panel (used by the Spanish knightly order since 1158) suggest German craftsmen working on the Iberian peninsula. A few initials and a little music in 18th century ms. In good condition (five lower inner margins soiled and anciently guarded, loss of a few letters). Colophon has “CCCC” in lieu of “cccc”.HC 13380; BMC X: 39; Haebler, Bib. ibérica 557 “raro”; Haebler, Gesch. des span. Frühdruckes 383-4 & reprod.; Kurz, Handbuch der iberischen Bilddrucke des XV. Jahrh. 305; Lyell, Early Book Illustration in Spain 66 & figg. 49-50; Meyer-Baer, Liturgical Music Incunabula 233; Krummel & Sadie, Music Printing and Publishing 26; MGG 7: 441.](/mckittrick/images/items/80x160/6329.jpg "4to (193 x 136 mm.). [i blank], [112], [1 blank] leaves. PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK, MUSIC THROUGHOUT, Gothic type for choral text, six 4-line staves per page, floriated white-line woodcut initials (some guide letters), an Ungut and Polonus device (Vindel, Escudos fig. 20). 16th century blind stamped brown calf over wooden boards (repaired), panels alike with medallion and vine roll borders, acorns and daisies in the center around an oval half-figure saint (front) and cross of Calatrava (rear), crowned lion repeated on the spine, two brass catches, one clasp, yellow edges.First Edition of the First Spanish Book with Printed Music of which a complete copy survives. THIS IS A TREASURE TROVE OF MEDIEVAL POPULAR MUSIC. The binding’s overall decor and the Cross of Calatrava on the rear panel (used by the Spanish knightly order since 1158) suggest German craftsmen working on the Iberian peninsula. A few initials and a little music in 18th century ms. In good condition (five lower inner margins soiled and anciently guarded, loss of a few letters). Colophon has “CCCC” in lieu of “cccc”.HC 13380; BMC X: 39; Haebler, Bib. ibérica 557 “raro”; Haebler, Gesch. des span. Frühdruckes 383-4 & reprod.; Kurz, Handbuch der iberischen Bilddrucke des XV. Jahrh. 305; Lyell, Early Book Illustration in Spain 66 & figg. 49-50; Meyer-Baer, Liturgical Music Incunabula 233; Krummel & Sadie, Music Printing and Publishing 26; MGG 7: 441.")
Processional, Dominican Order.
Seville, Meinhard Ungut & Stanislaus Polonus 3 April 1494.
Price: $40,000.00
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Processional, Dominican Order.
Seville, Meinhard Ungut & Stanislaus Polonus 3 April 1494.
Price: $40,000.00
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