Practicae Musicae

Item author: Franchius Gaffurius
Item date: 1496
Grant Value: 6,000
Item cost: 6,000
Item date acquired: 1990
Item institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

Musical examples all printed from woodblocks. Bought with John Dowlands Second booke of songs or ayres of 2,4 and 5 parts, with tablature for the lute or orpherian with the violl de gamba, 1600.

Item Provenance
Collection of Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, St Michaels College Tenbury, most of whose collection of MSS was willed to Bodley, though the library had to buy the printed books at a cost of 170,000