Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis e Soc. lesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniuersalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta : qua vniuersa sonorum doctrina, & philosophia, musicaeque tam theoricae, quam practicae scientia, summa varietate traditur
Subtitle: admirandae consoni, & dissoni in mundo, adeoque vniuersa natura vires effectusque, vti noua, ita peregrina variorum speciminum exhibitione ad singulares vsus, tum in omnipoene facultate, tum potissimum in philologia, mathematica, physica, mechanica, medicina, politica, metaphysica, theologia, aperiuntur & demonstrantur
Publisher: ex typographia haeredum Francisci Corbelletti
Published: 1650
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1274
Subjects: Music -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- Early works to 1800; Musical instruments -- Early works to 1800
Description: <div>Uniform title: Mursurgia universalis</div><div><br /></div><div>Edited by Jacobus Viva, with his letter to the reader (prelim p. [19]).</div><div><br /></div><div>Additional double-page engraved t.p. with dedicatory portrait of Leopold Guilielmus, archduke of Austria, Belgium and Burgundy; engraved by Io. Paulo Schor, Barfonius F., Romae.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Vol. 2 t.p.: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Soc. Iesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniversalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni. Romae, Ludouici Grignani, 1650; with additional engraved plate of Apollo playing the cythara, engraved by Petrus Miotte.</div><div><br /></div>Local note: Pencilled note on front endpaper: "an unusually fine wide-margined copy, though frontispiece is from another copy. S.H."; note in ink on back endpaper: "The mounted frontispiece is from another copy, otherwise this is complete and a very fine copy. S.H. [Sidney Hamer] 2/25/62, Fredericksburg, VA".<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>