Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples
Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, collation: A-L4, 2 woodcut diagrams in text, tables, woodcut criblé initials, contemporary ink annotations (extensive to front endpapers and title), woodcut printer's device and part of title and imprint cut out, also affecting text to verso of title, final gathering loose, water-stained, occasional spotting, lighty browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, worn, small 4to (184 x 140mm.), Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1551.
⁂ Rare first illustrated edition of one of the earliest works on music theory; here with evidence of early scholarship. The author was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism.
Literature: Adams F-27; Hirsch 165; RISM, Ecrits, 493; Renouard, Cavellat. 32.
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Music.- Annotated.- [Lefèvre d'Étaples (Jacques)] Musica libris quatuor demonstrata, collation: A-L4, 2 woodcut diagrams in text, tables, woodcut criblé initials, contemporary ink annotations (extensive to front endpapers and title), woodcut printer's device and part of title and imprint cut out, also affecting text to verso of title, final gathering loose, water-stained, occasional spotting, lighty browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, worn, small 4to (184 x 140mm.), Paris, Guillaume Cavellat, 1551.
⁂ Rare first illustrated edition of one of the earliest works on music theory; here with evidence of early scholarship. The author was a French theologian and a leading figure in French humanism.
Literature: Adams F-27; Hirsch 165; RISM, Ecrits, 493; Renouard, Cavellat. 32.
