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.
Publisher: King's Music
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambs
Language: lat
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Viol -- Instruction and study.; Music theory -- Early works to 1800.; Improvisation (Music)
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: The division-viol; The division violist; The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground
Work titles: Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata.
Notes: "Christopher Simpson . . . published The division violist [in English] in London in 1659. A revised edition, with bilingual Latin/English text, appeared in 1665"--P. 67 verso.

Originally published: London : H. Brome, 1665.
Table of contents: value: [v. 1] Pt. I, Of the viol itself, with instructions to play upon it. Pt. II, Use of the concords, or a compendium of descant; value: [v. 2] Pt. III, The method of ordering divisions to a ground.