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Rare and Early Printed Books. Autographs and Manuscripts.
acquire; and, unless another of Petrucci’s books is hidden away in some
private American collection, it is the first of this printer’s work ■— and
therefore the oldest book of actual music — to cross the Atlantic. •—”
tleneri^ per Octaufenu? flSetrutiuj f azofempnfen
fern 04 W ilkay. £115 pziuilegio fauictiffimC £>oin(nij
tlenerfarum cp nullnapoflit cantumfiguratum impzünere
fub pena in tpfo pziuilegio conrenra.
‘ftegiftruj S2Ö£DÄf.Omnee qterni.
Nr. 129. Petrucci. Harmonice Musices. 1504.
It will certainly be of interest to American readers of this cata-
logue to know that I have succeeded in getting another Petrucci
imprint, the Masses by Josquin de Pres 1513, which for its content is
of course the most important work Petrucci ever printed. This book
is now in the University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Sibley
Musical Library. Just as the development of literature and Science
in the later part of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th Century
was chiefly made possible by the invention of Gutenberg, so music and
its knowledge was not only largely propagated, but also much de-
veloped by Petrucci’s achievements. And in a similar way as Gutenberg’s
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.
Rare and Early Printed Books. Autographs and Manuscripts.
acquire; and, unless another of Petrucci’s books is hidden away in some
private American collection, it is the first of this printer’s work ■— and
therefore the oldest book of actual music — to cross the Atlantic. •—”
tleneri^ per Octaufenu? flSetrutiuj f azofempnfen
fern 04 W ilkay. £115 pziuilegio fauictiffimC £>oin(nij
tlenerfarum cp nullnapoflit cantumfiguratum impzünere
fub pena in tpfo pziuilegio conrenra.
‘ftegiftruj S2Ö£DÄf.Omnee qterni.
Nr. 129. Petrucci. Harmonice Musices. 1504.
It will certainly be of interest to American readers of this cata-
logue to know that I have succeeded in getting another Petrucci
imprint, the Masses by Josquin de Pres 1513, which for its content is
of course the most important work Petrucci ever printed. This book
is now in the University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Sibley
Musical Library. Just as the development of literature and Science
in the later part of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th Century
was chiefly made possible by the invention of Gutenberg, so music and
its knowledge was not only largely propagated, but also much de-
veloped by Petrucci’s achievements. And in a similar way as Gutenberg’s
PAUL GOTTSCHALK, Berlin W. 8, Unter den Linden 3 a.