The volume's contents, measured against our own text rather than taken from its title page — which is worth doing here, because the record this issue replaced was titled for two works it does not contain a single time. Counting the pages on which each author is named: Elias Salomonis occupies roughly pages 10–70; Marchettus of Padua's Lucidarium runs to about 136 and his Pomerium from 137 to 204; Johannes de Muris from 205 to about 330; Adam of Fulda from 345 to 398. Elias's Scientia artis musicae (dated 1274) is the earliest of them by some forty years and the least theoretical: it describes how singers actually improvised polyphony over a chant, which is the kind of evidence the speculative tradition almost never records. The measurement is [P-V]; the identifications and the dating are [S-V], from the standard attributions rather than from anything this volume states about itself.
Medieval treatises on music — Marchettus of Padua (Lucidarium, Pomerium), Johannes de Muris (Musica speculativa), Adam of Fulda, Elias Salomonis — Gerbert, Scriptores vol. 3 (St Blasien, 1784), re-read from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek scan
The original is shown on its own: no English is held for this issue yet.
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