Shelfmark
Fb.6.01(01)
Author
Aristoxenus. Harmonics.
Title
Aristoxenus. Nicomachus. Alypius. : Auctores musices antiquissimi, hactenus non editi. / Ioannes Meursius nunc primus vulgavit, & notas addidit.
Varying form of title
Aristoxenvs. Nicomachvs. Alypivs
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batavorum, : Ex officinâ Ludovici ElzevirI. Typis Godefridi Basson, Anno M. D. C. XVI [1616].
Physical description
[8], 160 [i.e. 196] p. ; 4to.
Note
Title vignette (printer's mark: open music book) ; woodcut initials, tailpieces.
Note
The last page misnumbered 160 for 196.
Note
Texts in Greek only, preliminaries and notes in Greek and Latin.
Note
First printing of all three treatises in the original Greek. Cf. Hoffmann, Bibl. Lexikon ... der Griechen, v. 1, p. 124 (Alypius), p. 375 (Aristoxenes) and v. 2, p. 638 (Nicomachus Gerasenus).
Note
Commissa aut omissa: p. 160 [i.e. 196].
Formatted contents note
Contents: Epistola dedicatoria. -- Lectori. -- Series operis. -- Aristoxenou Harmonikon stoicheion biblia g. -- Nicomachou Gerasenou ... Harmonikes engcheiridion. Biblia duo. -- Alypiou Eisagoge mousike. -- Joannis Meursii ad Aristoxenum, Nicomachum, Alypium, notae. -- errata (titles transliterated from Greek).
Citation/references note
Willems, A.C.J. Elzevier, 106
Citation/references note
Hoffmann. S.F.W. Bib. lex. der Griechen, v. 3, p. 365 (Scriptores musicae artis).
Provenance
Book label: Eton College Library.
Binding
Early 17th century dark brown leather binding, decorated with blind tooled three line fillet; blind tooled spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooling.
Copy-specific note
Bound with two other items.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Db.5.08.
Added entry--name
Meurs, Johannes van, 1579 - 1639 editor.
Added entry--name
Basson, Govert, ca. 1581 - 1643 printer.
Added entry--name
Elzevir, Louis, 1604 - 1670 printer.
Added entry--name
Nicomachus of Gerasa. Encheiridion harmonikes
Added entry--name
Alypius. Eisogoge mousiki
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Language code
grclat
Identifier
B27240