De arte canendi
Subtitle: ac vero signorum in cantibus usu, libri duo
By: autore Sebaldo Heyden. 
Contributors: Petrejus, Johannes, 1497-1550, printer; Boston Public Library
Publisher: Apud Ioh. Petreium
Published: 1540
Place of publication: Norimbergae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Music theory; Instruction and study; Early works to 1800; Singing
Notes: 1st edition published Nuremberg, 1537, under title: Musicae, id est, artis canendi libri duo.

Title page vignette.

Binder's spine title: De arte canendi.

Signatures: Áœ B-Úþ X́œ.

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

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

In Latin.

Catalogued 20151106 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in red cloth and brown leather over boards. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines and vertical wirelines. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received September 15, 1859. Title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library, along with an ink stamp of indecipherable provenance to the left of title page vignette. Rear pastedown includes red ink stamp dated "Jun 28 1918".