Fine half-length portrait engraving in formal dress holding a copy of his Chronologia. Dated 1616

by Sethus Calvisius

$450 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

240 x 167 mm. Uniformly browned; partially lined; a few small abrasions; trimmed to within platemark. Calvisius, a German music theorist, composer, teacher, chronologist and astronomer, was one of the most influential German theorists of his time and prominent in the musical and intellectual life of Leipzig ... He had a wide circle of scholarly friends, including the astronomer Johannes Kepler, Michael Praetorius and the music theorists

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