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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    MARTIANUS CAPELLA ON MUSIC. 1498 A.D. [16] CAPELLA (Martianus). De nuprus Pumotocie, ET MeERcuURII, DE GRAMMATICA, GEOMETRIA, ARITHMETICA, ASTRONOMIA, MUSICA, etc. First Eprrton. Roman and Greek Letter, 37 long lines to a full page. With woodcut diagram, and printer’s device on last cane = Folio. Cailj, Vicenza, Rigo di Ca Zeno, of Santorso, 16th December, 1498. £50 Hain 4370. Proctor 7174. Pellechet 3224. Verzeichniss der musiktheore- tischen Inkunabeln, p. 86. Editio Princeps. The book contains a comprehensive series of works dealing with the seven liberal arts of speaking and writing, geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy. a | ‘* Martianus Capella lived about A.D. 475.’’-—(J. E. Mathew, The Literature of Music, 1896).
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