The best pictures of early printed music

Posted in Best pictures, Historical articles, History, Literature, Music, Religion on Sunday, 23 August 2015

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The best pictures of early printed music are facsimiles taken from rare C15 and C16 books.
The first picture is a page from the Mainz Psalter.

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Part of a page selected from Fust and Schoeffer's second psalter, 1459

The second picture is a page from an early Venetian book of music.

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Early Venetian printing. Page from the Thoscanello della Musica of Petro Fiorentino. Printed by Bernardo and Matteo de Vitali at Venice in 1523

The third picture is also from the Mainz Psalter.

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A page from the Psalmorum Codex, printed in 1457 by Fust and Schoeffer, being the first printed Psalter and the first printed book with a printed date

Many more pictures of music can be found at the Look and Learn picture library.

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