Utilissime musicales regule necessitate plaini cantus simplicis contrapuncti: rerum factarum tonozum vsualium: nec non artis accentuandi tam speculatiue practice: accriori lima mundate
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor; Regnault, Fran©ʹois, -approximately 1540, printer
Published: 1526
Language: lat
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Counterpoint; Gregorian chants
Other titles: Utilissime
Notes: Colophon: Utilissime musicales regule ne / cessarie plani cantus / simplicis co- / trapuncti: rerum factaru[ue]: tonoru / vsualium: necnon artis accetuan- / di epistolas et euagelia: que antea mendose erant: nunc vero correcte / Impresse Anno salutifere passio- / nis Millesimo quingentesimo ve- / gesuno serto.

Printed in black and red ink.

Title page vignette.

Signatures: A-Éı [chi℗ø]

Also available on microfilm in the Boston Public Library Music Department.

In Latin.

Catalogued 20151120 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in black, red, and white marbled papers and black leather over boards. Binder's spine title in gilt. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received on September 15, 1859. Front flyleaf includes annotation in pencil script. Title page includes printers' device, along with embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines and vertical wire lines. Rear pastedown includes partial (affixed) label, and marking (in pencil) dated 12/19/39.