Fifteenth-century Instruments in Tinctoris’s: De Inventione et Usu Musicae

The contents of this incunable were brought to the notice of musicologists by Dr Karl Weinmann of Regensburg, who, after a short preliminary notice in the Riemann Festschrift (1909, p. 267), reproduced the whole of the text in his monograph Johannes Tinctoris (1445–1511) und sein unhekannter Traktat ‘De inventione et usu musicae’ (Regensburg, 1917). The treatise is undated, but Weinmann deduces that Tinctoris wrote it in about 1487 and that it was published about the same year, probably in Naples. The Episcopal Library at Regensburg possesses what is apparently the only known copy.