Dialogus de musica.
[Collection of early medieval theoretical music treatises. 12th cent.]
[94] . illus., music. 24 x 17 cm.Latin MS., written in Germany or Austria, in red and black (iron) ink on parchment, in German Carolingian minuscule hand; includes frequent marginal glosses in a later cursive hand.
Includes diagrams (e.g. . 18v., 19r., 27r.-28v., 54v.-55v., 64v.); music in neumatic notation (in campo aperto, e.g. . 72r.; diastematic, e.g. . 91r.-v., 92r.-v.); and Guidonian hand ( . 93v.); . 93r., 94r.-v. blank.
15th (?) century binding of wooden boards and white vellum with Admont Abbey item no. "494" on spine, and MS. title "Dialogus de musica" on front cover: leaf from 13th cent. legal MS. used as front fly-leaf.
Formerly owned by the Benedictine Admont Abbey, near Salzburg, Austria; purchased by the Sibley Music Library from E. P. Goldschmidt in 1936.
Includes works by Odo, Abbott of Cluny; Aribo Scholasticus; Guido Aretinus; Berno, Abbot of Reichenau; Hermannus Contractus; and various anonymous works.
For inventory of contents, cf.: Aribo Scholasticus. De musica. Edidit Jos. Smits van Waesberghe. Rome. American Institute of Musicology, 1951, p. i-ii. (Corpus scriptorum de musica, 2); cf. also: Ricci, Seymour de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940, p. 1875.
Sibley Music Library accession nos.: 336529
Aribo Scholasticus. De musica. Edidit Jos. Smits van Waesberghe. Rome. American Institute of Musicology, 1951, p. i-ii. (Corpus scriptorum de musica, 2); cf. also: Ricci, Seymour de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940, p. 1875.
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