[Collection of medieval musical treatises]. [ca. 1470]

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[Collection of medieval musical treatises]. [ca. 1470]

Ms. (54.1) in the Newberry Library, Chicago. Contents: De musica mensurabili (incomplete) -- Magistri Phillipoti Andreae, De contrapuncti quaedam regulae utiles -- Philippus de Caserta, Tractatus de diversis figuris -- Two drawings: Divisio sonorum, Tabula Pythagorae -- La harpe de melodie / [Jacob de Senleches] -- Marchetus de Padua, Musica -- Idem, Pomerium in arte musicae mensuratae -- Libellus cantus mensurabilis secundum Johannem de Muris -- Ars contrapuncti secundum -- Alphabets and ciphers -- Pseudo-Philippotus de Vitriaco, Ars perfecta in musica.

58 [i.e. 116] p. : music.

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