Luscinius - Musurgia 1536 Lot n° 84

Music - Luscinius (Engl. Nightingale), O. Musurgia seu praxis musicae. Illius primo quae Instrumentis agitur certa ratio, ab Ottomaro Luscinio Argentino duobus Libris absoluta. Strasbourg, Schott, 1536. 3 vols. 102 p., 2 vols. With 1 full-page. Black ground woodcut and numerous woodcuts and figural initials. Landscape 8°. VD16, V 1330; Asams L1730; Murray 249; Benzing, Strasbourg 1076; RISM V VI, 520; Wolffheim I, 788 - First and only edition of the Latin translation of Sebastian Virdung's 'Musica getutscht' of 1511, the first systematic treatise on musical instruments in Europe, with a motet (pp. 40-43) in mensural notation also in tablature for the clavichord and the lute. The woodcuts taken from the original edition illustrate early forms of stringed and plucked instruments, small organs, wind instruments such as flutes, crumhorns, bagpipes, timpani, etc.- Hardly legible inscription in old hand in brown ink on title page- title page with small restored tear, partly with slight dampstain in head margin, 2 leaves with backed marginal tear (no loss of text or image), last page with scribbles in brown ink.