Syntagma musicum
Subtitle: ex veterum et recentiorum ecclesiasticorum autorum lectione, polyhistorûm consignatione, variarum linguarum notatione, hodierni seculi usupatione, ipsius denique musica artis observatione in cantorum, organistarum, organo-poeorum, caeterorumq[ue]; musicam scientiam amantium & tractantium gratiam collectum ... : in quatuor tomos distributum
By: à Michaële Praetorio ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1614
Place of publication: Wolfenbüttel
Language: lat
Subjects: Church music; Musical instruments
Other titles: Syntagmatis musici; Theatrum instrumentorum
Notes: Collation: v.1. [24], 459, [32] p.; v.2. [28], 236 p., [1] folded leaves, [2] p., 44 p of plates (some folded), [4] p.; v.3. [16], 260 p., [1] foled leaf of plates.

Vol. 1 is in 2 parts; pt. 1 was printed in Wolfenbüttel, pt. 2, with special t.p. (p. 152) was printed in Wittenberg (see "Lector amice" at end of v.1); vol. 1 was then reissued with t.p. with title, Syntagmatis musici tomus primus complectens duas partes, and Witteberg imprint of J. Richter, dated 1615.

Vol. 2 and 3 have imprint Wolfenbüttel : E. Holwein, 1619; plates at end of v.2. have special t.p. with title Theatrum instrumentorum, and imprint Wolfenbüttel, 1620; v. 4 was never published.

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New Grove, v.XV, p.192

Hirsch, I.468

Vol. 1 in Latin, v. 2-3 in German.