Perfacilis, breuis, et expedita ratio componendi symphonias, co[n]centusue musicos
By: conscripta a Christophoro Hizenauero, Publico Scholae Palatinae Lauinganae musico
Contributors: Reinmichel, Leonhard, active 1578-1600, printer; Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor
Publisher: [Per Leonhardum Reinmichaelium typographum Palatinum excusa]
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Lavingae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Composition (Music)
Other titles: Perfacilis, brevis, et expedita ratio componendi symphonias, co[n]centusue musicos.
Notes: Edition statement transposed from colophon; place and date on t.p. Full colophon reads: Lauingae Per Leonhardum Reinmichaelium typographum Palatinum excusa. Printer's device above colophon.

The folded plate is a table with title: Scala coniuncta et integra.

Signatures: A-D́ı Éþ.

Pages [2] and [72] blank.

Variant of VD 16, H 3969. "Conscripta a" on t.p. is one complete line. Colophon varies.

VD 16, H 3969

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

Text in Latin.

Catalogued 20151127 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy half-bound in brown marbled papers and red leather over boards. 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 September 15, 1859. Printed on antique laid papers featuring vertical chainlines and horizontal wire lines. Title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library, and markings in (faded to brown) ink script. Rear pastedown includes partial remnants of affixed label.