Musice actiue micrologus
By: Andree Ornitoparchi ostrofranci Meyningensis, artiu magistri, libris quattuor digestus. Omnibus musice studiosis non tam vtilis quae necessatius ...
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor
Publisher: V. Schumann
Published: 1519
Place of publication: Lipsie
Language: lat
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Music theory; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Musice active micrologus.
Notes: Title page vignette and decorative border.

Title page printed in red and black ink.

Edition statement transposed.

Signatures: A-B́þ Ćœ D-Éþ F́œ G-Ḿþ.

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

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

Text in Latin.

Catalogued 20151124 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy bound in gray-green cloth over boards. Spine includes binder's title in gilt over strip of black leather. Front cover and flyleaf detached from spine binding. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines, vertical wire lines, and watermark visible at spine-edge near head of page. Edges of pages marbled. Title page includes two autographs in black ink script. Recto of title page includes annotation in pencil script noting provenance and date of receipt (September 15, 1859). Copy includes marginalia in Latin throughout. Leaf M4 includes Latin-language poem and illustration entered in (faded to brown) ink script. Pages are hand-numbered in pencil at head-/fore-edge. Rear pastedown includes ink stamp of the Boston Public Library Bindery dated "SEP 6 1895".