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Renatus Des-Cartes excellent compendium of musick : with necessary and judicious animadversions thereupon / by a person of honour.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Standardized Title:
- Musicae compendium. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Acoustics and physics--Early works to 1800.
- Music.
- Music--Acoustics and physics.
- Music theory--History--17th century.
- Music theory.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, diagrams, music, tables ; 19 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Animadversions vpon the musick-compendium of Renat. Des-Cartes
- Animadversions upon the musick-compendium of Renat. Des-Cartes
- Fingerprint:
- g-ur ntof 3255 befo (3) 1653 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by Thomas Harper, for Humphrey Moseley, and are to bee sold at his shop at the signe of the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church-Yard, and by Thomas Heath in Coven Garden, 1653.
- Notes:
- Signatures: a-b⁴ A-M⁴.
- A person of honour is Lord Brouncker.
- A translation by Lord Brouncker of: Descartes, René. Musicae compendium.
- "Animadversions vpon the musick-compendium of Renat. Des-Cartes" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
- Title vignette; head-piece; initial; printed marginal notes.
- With a final errata leaf.
- Error in signatures: leaf b2 signed as a2.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has a portrait frontispiece of René Descartes bound in.
- Culture Class Collection copy has a University of Pennsylvania bookplate on front pastedown that reads "Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Drinker".
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full maroon morocco; boards gold-tooled with double line fillet borders; five raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; six spine panels with gold-tooled double line fillet borders; brief title, author, and imprint stamped in gilt in second, third, and fourth spine panels; cover edges rolled with gilt double fillets; gold-tooled turn-ins; with "bound by Riviere & Son" stamped in gilt on bottom turn-in of left board.
- Culture Class Collection copy left board is detached.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, R13570
- Thomason, E.693[11]
- Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D1132
- OCLC:
- 228722744
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