Harmonicorum libri XII : in quibus agitur de sonorum natura, causis, et effectibus: de consonantiis, dissonantiis, rationibus, generibus, modis, cantibus, compositione, orbísque totius harmonicis instrumentis / authore M. Mersenno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mersenne, Marin, 1588-1648.

Contributor:

Baudry, Guillaume, publisher.

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Music theory--Early works to 1800.

Music theory.

Music--Acoustics and physics--Early works to 1800.

Music.

Music--Acoustics and physics.

Musical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Musical instruments.

Physical Description:

14 unnumbered pages, 184, 168 pages : illustrations, music ; 36 cm (folio)

Edition:

Editio aucta.

Fingerprint:

s.ad i-os æ.i- Orvn (3) 1648 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lutetiae Parisiorum : Sumptibus Guillelmi Baudry ..., MDCXLVIII [1648]

Notes:

A reissue, with new title page and preliminaries of "Harmonicorum libri", published by Baudry in 1636.

Title printed in red and black.

Title vignette; woodcut initials; head-pieces.

"F. Marini Mersenni harmonicorum instrumentorum"--p. 1-168 (2nd count).

Pagination: p. 126-131, 154-159 omitted in paging of pt. 1; other slight errors in paging.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and title in ms. on spine; title in ms. on spine; all edges speckled green.

Culture Class Collection copy has effaced unidentified stamp on title page.

Cited in:

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, III, 1662

Contains:

F. Marini Mersenni harmonicorum instrumentorum.

OCLC:

848164840