Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata, sive, Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio
Subtitle: in tres partes distributa = The division-viol, or, The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground, divided into three parts ...
By: authore Christophoro Simpson
Edition: Editio secunda.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 824:4; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1101:3
Publisher: Printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome ...
Published: 1667
Place of publication: London
Language: lat; eng
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Viols; Instruction and study; Early works to 1800; Continuo
Other titles: Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio; Division-viol; Division viol; Introduction to the playing upon a ground; Art of playing ex tempore upon a ground; Minurationes ad basin; Art of playing extempore upon a ground
Work titles: Division violist, or, An introduction to the playing upon a ground
Notes: Latin and English in parallel columns.

First ed. published in 1659 under title: The division-violinist.

Title within double line border.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Christopher Simpson.

Duplicate copies appear on reels 824 and 1101.

Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.

Wing S3809A

Heron-Allen, E. De fidiculis bibliographia, 708

Wing 53809A.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. Of the viol itself, with instructions to play upon it; title: II. Use of the concords, or a compendium of descant; title: III. The method of ordering division to a ground.