Works for the Mandora

Le Roy and Ballard printed two books for the mandora in the sixteenth-century; both are now lost. No other printed works are known, but both Virdung and Agricola mention and diagram an instrument similar to the mandora called a "quintern." In the Latin translation of Virdung 1511, Luscinius labels this instrument the "lutina."



 

Virdung 1511
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht (Basel: M. Furter)

Treatise for organ, lute, recorder in German tablature

Virdung 151?
Virdung, Sebastian. Musica getutscht (Basel: M. Furter)

Treatise for organ, lute, recorder in German tablature

Luscinius 1536
Luscinius, Ottomar. Musurgia seu praxis musicae (Strassburg: Johann Schott)

Treatise for organ, four lutes in German tablature; free translation of Virdung 1511

Luscinius 1542
Luscinius, Ottomar. Musurgia seu praxis musicae (Strassburg: Johann Schott)

Treatise for organ, lute in German tablature; = Luscinius 1536

[Brunet 1578]
Brunet, Pierre. tablature de Mandorre (Paris: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard)

Mandora in French tablature; **LOST

[Le Roy 1585]
Le Roy, Adrian. L'instruction pour la mandorre (Paris?: Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard?)

Mandora in French tablature? **LOST


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