Flores musicae omnis ca[n]tus Gregoriani.

Accession number: 
PML 77099
Author: 
Spechtshart, Hugo, of Reutlingen, 1285-1359 or 60.
Published: 
Impressum Argentine : per Johannem Pryss, Mcccclxxxviij [1488]
Description: 
[98] leaves, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, music ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Mr. William H. Scheide, 1981.
Notes: 

Authorship traditionally ascribed to Spechtshart.
Title from incipit caption, leaf A1r: Incipit prologus flores musice artis.
Imprint from colophon, leaf M6v: Imp[re]ssum Arge[n]tine p[er] Iohannem pryss Anno Mcccclxxxviij.
Printed in Prüss's types 3:90G, 4:300G, 7:156G, and 13:150G.
Signatures: [1²]; A-M⁸: 98 leaves (with 1 fold-out plate bound in quire D), leaf M8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts, illustrations and music.
A didactic poem, accompanied by commentary in prose and by musical examples.
Quires K-M are known in a variant setting, with variant colophon (Polain(B) 2036A, CIBN (Add) H-309).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: M8 (blank). Fold-out plate, paper repaired with losses to text and music, bound before leaf D3.

Binding: 
19th/early 20th-century full brown goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Lucien Graux (1878-1944); unidentified French sale catalogue description, no. 1636 (front endleaf 2 recto); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 148, booklabels (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 168, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mr. William H. Scheide, 1981.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books