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SUPPLEMENT.

Panzer properly intimates) for attributing this edition to the press of
Eggesteyn: it being decidedly the production of Fyner of Esslingen.
Laire has described it, but rather in a strange nianner : observing that
the pages are divided into columns—whereas the text is printed in
long lines—and that it is the first book, with a date, exhibiting musical
notes. Index Libror. vol. i. p. 301-2. What he calls musical notes, are
5 square spots, on the recto of the 4th leaf, obliquely descending, thus :

which are intended to denote the five following passions or affeetions of
the mind: Joy, Hope, Compassion, Fear, and Grief. Braun has added
horizontal lines — giving the whole a completely musical appearance.
But Laire is perhaps wrong in his inference; for the squares, being
taken from the musical books of the choir, can only be considered as
mere detached embellishments : if the lines had been added, we should
then have witnessed the earliest attempt. at what may be more correctly
called printed music. On the recto of the 40th leaf we observe another
whimsical adoption of the above words, thus :

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According to Braun, the first form is intended to represent a cross,
and the second, a wheel: as the author immediately adds

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The entire work is executed in the manner of a dialogue between a
master and his pupil. The first page has no prefix, but the text begins
with the words as before given in the title. A full page has 38 lines.