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Credit: Sales catalogue 476: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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No text description is available for this image![Georgius Valla.] Vitruvii de architectura libri decem. [With other’ tracts. Roman Letter, 43 long lines and head-line to a full page. Numerous woodcut initials white on black ground with floral or branch ornament in frame line, a large initial at beginning of each book; capital space, with guide-letter, on first page of last tract. Folio. Calf. Venice, Simon Bevilaqua, 3rd August, 1497. eis FOS), Hain *5451. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. V., p. 522. Pellechet 3848. Proctor 5404. Only five copies in U.S.A. (according to Census). COFERATI (Matteo). In Canrore AppoTTrinato, OvvERo REGOLE DEL CANTO CoRALE, QUE CON BREVE, E FACIL METODO S'INSEGNA LA PRATICA DE’ PRECETTI PIU NECESSARJ DEL CANTO Fermo; I] modo di mantenere il Coro sempre alla medesima altezza di voce; di ripigliare doue resta l’Organo; d’intonare molte cose, che fra Anno si cantano; ed in particolare tutti gl’Inni. Con varie aggiunte dell’ Autore in questa seconda Impressione. i With musical notation throughout the text and two curious woodcut illustrations, each showing the left hand, palm upwards, partially covered with music notes. One shows the method of finding the keys of the Canto Fermo, and the other that of finding the keys of the Canto Corale. 8vo. Vellum. Florence, per il Vangelisti, N.D. (1691). 12.2 Hitner, Vol. II., p.4. Library of Congress Catalogue of Music, p. 61. Matteo Coferati was born in Florence, and became an ecclesiastic and master of plain-chant in that town.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31639392_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)