Shelfmark
Gb.2.12
Author
Title
F. Marini Mersenni ordinis minim Harmonicorum libri. In quibus agitur de sonorum natura, causis, et effectibus: de consonantiis, dissonantiis, rationibus, generibus, modis, cantibus, compositione, orbisque totius harmonicis instrumentis. Opus vtile grammaticis, oratoribus, philosophis, iurisconsultis, medicis, mathematicis, atque theologis.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Harmonicorum libri.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lutetiæ Parisiorum, : sumptibus Guillielmi Baudry, via Amydalina, propè Collegium Grassinorum., M. DC. XXXVI. [1636]
Physical description
[12], 184, 168 p. : ill. ; 36 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Includes the author's Harmonicorum instrumentorum libri iv and Liber novus praelusorius.
Note
Harmonicorum instrumentorum libri iv has separate pagination and register.
Note
Title-page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Note
Woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout, with some engraved illustrations.
Note
Signatures: ã4, è2, A4-Aa4; A4-Y4.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso.
Provenance
Possibly from the library of John Harrison, Head Master at Eton 1630-1642, according to the card catalogue record.
Binding
Contemporary English sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border; gold tooled single fillet on board edges; holes for chain plate on rear board; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled triple fillet and title; six raised bands; seventeenth century parchment stubs bearing legal manuscript text; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Cc[?].4.8; Cf.2.7, Ef.2.7, Gb.2.20.
Subject
Music Acoustics and physics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Music Theory 16th-17th centuries.
Subject
Musical instruments Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46917