Compendiu musices confectu ad faciliore instructione cantum chorale discentiu : necno ad introductione huius libelli: qui Catorinus intitulatur: omnibus diuino cultui deditis p[er]putilis necessarius: vt in tabula hic immediate sequeti latius apparet

Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor. MB, Giunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457-1538, printer · 1513 · Venetijs : impressi p[er] dnm Lucantoniu de Giunta Florentinu[um] · 21 pictures

A 1513 Venetian printed liturgical music book, a compendium of chant notation printed by Luca-Antonio Giunta for church singers and clergy, later owned by Joshua Bates. The pictures are woodcut-printed pages of square-note Gregorian chant on red-ruled staves, with red and black initial capitals and decorated historiated initials, offering a designer examples of early printed music typography, rubricated headings and ornamental capitals.

Gregorian chants

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