Signerre'swoodcuts see FriedrichLippmann,The Art of Wood-EngravingįifteenthCentury(London,1888 repr. PrintedBooksin the BritishMuseum,i (London, 1898), 403. 72-73 Robert Proctor, An Index to the Early 144 MariangelaDon'a,La stampamusicalea Milanoįino all'anno 1700 (Florence, 1961), pp. Baltzer,'Thirteenth-CenturyIlluminatedMiniaturesand the Date of theįlorence Manuscript,' Journal of the AmericanMusicologicalSociety, 25 (1972), 1-18.ģ For GuilielmusSigner or Le Signerre,see Claudio Sartori,Dizionariodeglieditori Gregg InternationalPublishers,Ltd., 1967).Ģ On the illuminations of the MS.Florence, Bibl. Latter.The PracticaMusicae,firstprintedin Milan in 1496,has been reprintedin facsimile That of Irwin Young (Madison,Wisc., 1969) it is briefly describedon p. Miller (AmericanInstituteof Musicology, 1968) and The woodcut is reproduced in two English translations of 140-142 Edgar Wind, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (New Haven,ġ958), pp. La Survivancedesdieuxantiques(London,1940), Engl. Script,'Meaningin the VisualArts (GardenCity, N.Y., 1957), pp. Publishedin 1518 though certainlywritten some years earlier.4In theġ Aby Warburg,'I Costumiteatraliper gli intermezzidel 1589,' GesammelteĮrwin Panofsky, 'Titian's Allegory of Prudence: A Post. Humanisticlore in the De HarmoniaMusicorumInstrumentorum (1492), and returnedto the subject armed with much newly acquired That of his printer,Le Signerre.3Gafori as a devout Boethian was enamoredof myths about cosmic harmony he expoundedBoethius'doctrine of musicamundanain the first edition of the TheoricaMusicaeinġ480, expandedupon this treatmentin the second edition of that work Polyphony.2 But the illustrationwas surely Gafori'sidea rather than Thirteenth-centuryPluteus manuscripthas to do with Notre Dame Some length.1 The frontispiecehas nothing really to do with the contentsof the Practica-no more, say, thanthe Boethianfrontispieceof the The first edition of the PracticaMusicaehas been a great favoriteĪmong arthistoriansof iconographicbent Warburg,Panofsky,Seznec,Īnd Wind have all reproducedand commented on this woodcut at This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Fri, 05:28:22 AMĪll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditionsĭepiction of celestialharmony (fig. Preserve and extend access to Renaissance Quarterly. For more information about JSTOR, please contact University of Chicago Press and Renaissance Society of America are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofĬontent in a trusted digital archive. Practica musica gafori archive#Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at. Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)
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