De praestantia music©Œ veteris
Subtitle: libri tres totidem dialogis comprehensi in quibus vetus ac recens musica, cum singulis earum partibus, accurate inter se conferunter ; adiecto ad finem Onomastico selectorum vocabulorum, ad hanc facultatem cum elegantia & proprietate tractandam, pertinentium ; ad eminentiss Cardinalem Mazarinum
By: Io. Baptistae Doni patricii Florentini. 
Contributors: Foroliuien, Mass©Œ, printer
Publisher: Typis Amatoris Mass©Œ Foroliuien
Published: 1647
Place of publication: Florenti©Œ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Greek and Roman Music; Early works to 1800; History and criticism; Music
Other titles: De praestantia music©Œ veteris
Notes: Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title page.

Signatures: [dagger]́þ A-X́þ.

Pages 145-166 misnumbered 245-266.

Includes list of errata on p. 265.

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

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

In Latin.

Catalogued 20151112 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in marbled brown and burgundy leather over boards. Spine title, authorial name, date of publication, and decorative parallel bars in gilt. Printed on antique laid papers with horizontal chainlines and vertical wire lines. Front pastedown and recto/verso of front flyleaf includes extensive handwritten annotations/commentary in Italian in black ink script, dated 1785. Title page includes autograph in black ink script, and embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Rear pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying Joshua Bates as the donor, received on September 15, 1859.