Theodoricus Petri, c.1560-c.1630 [publisher]          PIAE CANTIONES   Ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum   episcoporum, 1582 Facsimile of the Greifswald 1582 edition. 74 anonymous religious and school songs  for one to four voices     Piae cantiones. Ecclesiasticae et scholasticae veterum episcoporum, 1582. Theodoricus Petri (Rutha), Nylandensis. Facsimile Documenta Musicae Fennicae, X. Helsinki, 2/1982. Format: 13 x 18 cm, 198, 19 pp. Line-cut of the Greifswald, 1582 edition. A collection of anonymous school and religious songs for one to four voices published in Western Pomerania (now part of Sweden). All of the texts except one are in Latin. Some of the songs date back to the 13th c., others stem from German Lutheran collections. The last number of the collection is the popular Christmas tune “Good King Wenceslas” (Tempus adest floridum). Afterword in Finnish-Swedish-English by Timo Mäkunen. Hardbound with silver lettering. $42  (view renaissance listing) OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula PO Box 6019 FDR Station 10150 tel/fax 212/ 758-1946 www.omifacsimiles.com immels@earthlink.net