Sales catalogue 512: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/69
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 512: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Translated by Georgius Valla.] © VITRUVIUS de architec- tura 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. Vemice, Simon Bevilaqua, 3rd August, 1497. £31 10s Hain *5451. British Museum Catalogue, Vol. V, p. 522. Pellechet 3848. Proctor 5404. Verzeichniss der musiktheoretischen Inkunabeln, p. 83. ‘‘ The first of the books on Greek music to find its way into print was a Latin translation by G. Valla of a treatise purporting to be by Cleonides. It turns out that the supposed work of Cleonides is identical with a treatise attributed in several MSS. to Euclid, the famous geometrician, and the rival claims have not been settled, although it has been pointed out by the great English mathematician Wallis, that the work is inconsistent with another treatise of Euclid known as The Section of the Canon—i.e., the division of the monochord.’’—(J. E, Mathew, The Literature of Music, 1896).
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