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Anonymous

Item versi eiusdem acute divisionis

Period: 9th-11th

Source: Tilden A. Russell, "A Poetic Key to a Pre-Guidonian Palm and the Echemata," Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981): 109-118, 110.

Electronic version prepared by Peter Slemon E, Jessica Sisk C, and Thomas J. Mathiesen A for the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, 2003.

Concordances
Lexicon musicum Latinum:
Anonymous: Versus de musica
VERS. Indicis
RISM:
B-Br 10078/95, 45v
CZ-Pu XIX. C. 26, 40
D-St. Blasien without shelfmark, f
F-Pn Lat. 7211, 149v
I-MC 318, 125-126
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[110]Indicis a summo capiens exordia primus,

In minimi primo flexu postrema reponit,

Quae sedes stat principium finisque secundi.

Tertius a summo rursum capit indicis ortum,

In summo finem distinguens auricularis,

Hic caput et finis quarti dinoscitur esse.

Indicis in medio quintus sumit caput artu,

Et medici finem modulaminis aptat in ungue,

Qui locus exortum sexti finemque tuetur.

Indicis hinc radix septeni perficit ortum,

Summus apex medii cuius postrema resumit,

Octavus hac sede caput finemque reponit.

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