Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata: sive, Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio. In tres partes distributa. = The division-viol, or, The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground. Divided into three parts. Pars I. Chelyos tractandæ præcepta. Pars II. Melothesiæ compendium. Pars III. Minuritiones ad basin aptandi methodus. Part I. Of the viol it self, with instructions to play upon it. Part II. Use of the concords, or a compendium of descant. Part III. The method of ordering division to a ground. Authore Christophoro Simpson.

All titles

• Chelys, minuritionum artificio exornata: sive, Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio. In tres partes distributa. = The division-viol, or, The art of playing ex tempore upon a ground. Divided into three parts. Pars I. Chelyos tractandæ præcepta. Pars II. Melothesiæ compendium. Pars III. Minuritiones ad basin aptandi methodus. Part I. Of the viol it self, with instructions to play upon it. Part II. Use of the concords, or a compendium of descant. Part III. The method of ordering division to a ground. Authore Christophoro Simpson.
• Division-violist, or, An introduction to the playing upon a ground. Latin & English
• Minuritiones ad basin, etiam ex tempore modulandi ratio Division-viol Division-viol, or, The art of playing extempore upon a ground

People / Organizations

• Christopher Simpson (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by W. Godbid for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, M. DC. LXV. [1665]

Publication year

1665-1665

ESTC No.

R11167

Grub Street ID

59477

Description

[12], 61, [1], 53-67 [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : : ill., port., music ; 2⁰

Note

Another edition of "The division-violist, or An introduction to the playing upon a ground ", first published in 1659.

Latin and English in parallel columns.

With reprint edition imprimatur dated: September 24. 1665.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Christopher Simpson.