[Music]. Aristoxenus, Nicomachus and Alypius. Elementa Harmonica./ Enchridion Harmonices./ Isagoge...
[Music]. Aristoxenus, Nicomachus and Alypius. Elementa Harmonica./ Enchridion Harmonices./ Isagoge Musica. Ed. J. Meursius. Leyden, Ex Officina L. Elzeviri, typis G. Basson, 1616, (8),160[=196]p., woodcut title-vignette, Greek text, contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 4to.
- Title-p. doubled; heraldic bookplate and auction catalogue clipping on upper pastedown; occas. trifle yellowed. A fine copy.
= Scheurleer I, p.102; Willems 106; Rahir 83; Schweiger p.67; Hoffman I, p.375. Very rare ediiton of these ancient treatises on musical theory. Aristoxenus' Elementa Harmonica, which has been only partly preserved, is considered the oldest surviving work on the subject.
BOUND WITH: Philostratus. Epistolae. Ed. J. Meursius. Ibid., idem, 1616, 24p., woodcut title-vignette.
= Willems 115; Rahir 91; Hoffman III, p.80; not in Schweiger.
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[Music]. Aristoxenus, Nicomachus and Alypius. Elementa Harmonica./ Enchridion Harmonices./ Isagoge Musica. Ed. J. Meursius. Leyden, Ex Officina L. Elzeviri, typis G. Basson, 1616, (8),160[=196]p., woodcut title-vignette, Greek text, contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 4to.
- Title-p. doubled; heraldic bookplate and auction catalogue clipping on upper pastedown; occas. trifle yellowed. A fine copy.
= Scheurleer I, p.102; Willems 106; Rahir 83; Schweiger p.67; Hoffman I, p.375. Very rare ediiton of these ancient treatises on musical theory. Aristoxenus' Elementa Harmonica, which has been only partly preserved, is considered the oldest surviving work on the subject.
BOUND WITH: Philostratus. Epistolae. Ed. J. Meursius. Ibid., idem, 1616, 24p., woodcut title-vignette.
= Willems 115; Rahir 91; Hoffman III, p.80; not in Schweiger.