Tractatus de musica
By: hrsg. und mit einer Einführung versehen von Simon M. Cserba.
Contributors: Cserba, Simon M., 1900-; Boethius, d. 524.; Johannes, Afflighemensis, fl. ca. 1100.; John, of Garland, ca. 1195-ca. 1272.; Franco de Colonia.; Petrus Picardus.; Bibliothèque nationale (France).
Series: Veröffentlichungen des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Freiburg i.d. Schweiz.; Heft 2
Publisher: F. Pustet
Published: 1935
Place of publication: Regensburg
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Music theory -- Early works to 1800.; Mensural notation -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [viii]-x.
Issued also in part (lxxxiv p.) as inaugural dissertation, Freiburg, under title: Der Musiktraktat des Hyeronymus von Moravia.
Based on ms. latin 16663 of the Bibliothèque nationale, hitherto available only in Edmond de Coussemaker's Scriptores de musica medii aevi, 1864, v. 1, p. 1-153. cf. Vorwort. A compilation, more than half of which was taken from Boethius ("De musica") It includes a revision of most of "De musica" by Joannes Cotton, and passages from Isidorus of Seville, Alfärabi, Richard of St. Victor and Thomas Aquinas. In the second part, the treatises on measured music by Joannes de Garlandia, Franco de Colonia and Petrus Picardus are given in full. cf. p. xxiv.