Title: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis e Soc. lesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniuersalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X libros digesta : qua vniuersa sonorum doctrina, & philosophia, musicaeque tam theoricae, quam practicae scientia, summa varietate traditur
Description: <div>Uniform title: Mursurgia universalis</div><div><br /></div><div>Edited by Jacobus Viva, with his letter to the reader (prelim p. [19]).</div><div><br /></div><div>Additional double-page engraved t.p. with dedicatory portrait of Leopold Guilielmus, archduke of Austria, Belgium and Burgundy; engraved by Io. Paulo Schor, Barfonius F., Romae.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Vol. 2 t.p.: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Soc. Iesu presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniversalis, siue Ars magna consoni et dissoni. Romae, Ludouici Grignani, 1650; with additional engraved plate of Apollo playing the cythara, engraved by Petrus Miotte.</div><div><br /></div>Local note: Pencilled note on front endpaper: "an unusually fine wide-margined copy, though frontispiece is from another copy. S.H."; note in ink on back endpaper: "The mounted frontispiece is from another copy, otherwise this is complete and a very fine copy. S.H. [Sidney Hamer] 2/25/62, Fredericksburg, VA".<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
Subjects: Music -- Early works to 1800; Music theory -- Early works to 1800; Musical instruments -- Early works to 1800