Paedagogus Hoc est, Libellus ostendens, qua ratione prima artium initia pueris quam facillime tradi possint

FREIGIUS, Johann Thomas 1543-1583

Published by Sebastianum Henric Petri, Basileæ, 1582

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1f. (recto title, verso blank), 7ff. (dedication and preface), 366 pp., 1f. (recto colophon, verso publisher's device). With a lengthy chapter on music (pp. 157-217) including numerous musical examples and a folding plate entitled "Scala Guidonis Aretini" between pp. 162-163. First Edition. Rare. Not in Damschroder and Williams, Gregory-Bartlett, or Wolffheim. Cortot p. 79. Eitner IV, p. 68. Hirsch I, 179. RISM Écrits pp. 328-329 (5 copies in the U.S. only). Bound with: Rhetorica, Poetica, Logica, Ad Usum Rudiorum in Epitomen Redactæ . Cum gratia & privilegio Imperiali. Noribergæ [Nürnberg]: [Gerlach], 1594. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 2ff. (preface), 152 pp., 1f. (recto colophon, verso blank). The present treatise was first published in 1580. OCLC (this edition held as an internet resource only). With fine pictorial woodcut devices to titles and occasional woodcut tailpieces. Octavo. Full 19th century dark red morocco, raised bands on spine in blind-ruled compartments, titling gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles highly gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Small label of Parisian bookseller A. Aubry to lower inner corner of front pastedown. Very occasional small stains. In very good condition overall. Freigius, a noted German philosopher and scholar, wrote on rhetoric, dialectics, politics, ethics, logic and music; he was one of the first to use the term psychology to denote the study of the mind. The present treatise is an introduction to all branches of humanistic study. Divided into 24 chapters, the chapter on music is the longest and addresses topics including vocal music, vernacular psalmody, Latin hymns, and the gap between music theory and practice. Other chapters include commentary on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew grammar; French culture including wine and food; poetic rhetoric; logic; geometry; architecture; physics; ethics; politics; military activities; history; law; and medicine, including a discussion of diseases and their symptoms, with a section on the plague.

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• Title: Paedagogus Hoc est, Libellus ostendens, qua ratione prima artium initia pueris quam facillime tradi possint
• Publisher: Sebastianum Henric Petri, Basileæ
• Publication Date: 1582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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