Musicae
Subtitle: das ist der freyen lieblichen Singkunst erster und anderer Theil. Sampt beygefugtem nutzlichen Exempel Buchlein ...
By: durch Maternum Beringer, cantorem zu Weissenburg
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor; Fuhrmann, Georg Leopold, active 1606-1615, printer; Boston Public Library
Publisher: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann
Published: 1610
Place of publication: Nurnberg
Language: ger
Subjects: Sacred Part songs; Early works to 1800; Singing; Instruction and study
Notes: Part 2 has the title: Exempel Buchlein fur die Tyrones, oder Anfanger in der Musica.

Title page printed in red and black ink, and surrounded by decorative border.

Signatures: A-Ĺþ 2A-2H́þ 2I℗đ.

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

Text in German and Latin.

Catalogued 20151124 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in red/black marbled papers and red leather over boards. Spine includes binder's title and decorative device of the Boston Public Library in gilt. Front cover detached from spine binding. 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. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines and vertical wire lines. Title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library, as well as autographs and annotations in black ink script. Recto of title page includes provenance information in pencil script. Rear pastedown includes ink stamp of the Boston Public Library Bindery, dated "SEP 18 1886".