Portrait wood engraving

by Michael Praetorius

$250 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Praetorius is depicted three-quarter length within a border incorporating text and music. His right hand rests on an open book of music on a table before him with an inkwell and quill pen to his right. Within oval textual frame. Image size 110 x 82 mm; overall size 186 x 140 mm. Verso the elaborate illustrated title to the composer's Bassus I. Chori partbook from Musae Sioniae ... Deutsche Psalmen und geistlicher Lieder. The Musae Sioniae, a collection of 117

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