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cords, and the pe fy fhould be made of them upon 
thefe occafions, _ He 
which ought to beavcided, or mo* frequently ufed; where 
to introduce them, or any thing that concerns the true 
ele of the art? Tf they accord, it is ine mere chance ; 
a mark, without hitting it once in a hen- 
mafter Muris then proceeds to flagellate with 
great fury thefe corr pe of the pure an fimple ha har 
of his time: ‘ Heu! proh dolor! His temporibus aliqui 
{uum defeétum inepto sens colorare moliuntur.  Ifte 
» Inquinnt, novus difcantandi modus, novis {fcilicet uti 
confonantiis ; dust ii intelletum eorum, qui tales 
defectus agnofcunt, offendunt u nam inducere cum 
deberent delectationem, adducunt iam incongruum 
proverbium |! O mala coloratio, irrationabilis excufatio ! 
b tas, ut afinus 
magns abulus, magna ruditas, magna beftiali 
fumatur pro homine, capra pro 
pro falmone! Sic enim concordiz ara! cum dif- 
ane ut sa mis una diftngua 
ti pert ores tales “aadiffent difcantatores, 
me facis. no teintrom'ttis? Mihi non congruis, mihi 
acvertarins fcand-inum cu mihies; O utinam taceres! non 
concordas, fed dehras ct d:fcordas.”’ as al of this 
paffage is fo ete and monkuh, that it feems as if i 
obiol 
would fall more irae, into le of - rt santas 
than into that the pr. fent times ! in thefe 
our dayes, (ome do ftryve to slot over ree lacke of fkyll 
with filly fayenges. Tis, cry they, is the zewe method of 
difcantynge, thefe be the newe concordes.—Howbeit they 
grievoufly offend thereby both the hearing, and the undere 
ftanding o 
or 
fora fifhe, a f{nake for a falmone! 
they confound concordes with iifeordes, as ye fhall i 
wife sie the one from the other. O! if the ne old 
mayfters of former time we fuche difcanters, what 
would they fay or do? £ doubte ee —_ thus 
tes them aad ree a cfm, — f ye make 
ufe, ye.do not take in nO ae aac 
your fonge a be ae an me; wherefore do ye 
thruit yourfelves in? ye do not 
ee and a a fean dal unto me. O that-ye 
bt 
dum 
ris tak e ftill er among rulcripts of the 
Bodleian ne Mafen libraries, we fhall a the account 
nin Tan Bibliotheca ee P. 537, which is 
fo ample as to need little additi 
ohn de Muris, or Morus, 2 an a Baglin: and an emi- 
nent philofopher, irae eae ee mufician, wrote “ Ex 
Stellarum Pofitionibus Propheti Lib. i. Infra Ane 
num certe Mundi. *¢ «« Arithmeticam Speculativam,’? Lib, i. 
URIS. 
MS. Oxon. ia Bibl. Publ. <Impreff. Mogunt. 
Moficum.”’ Quoniam eh d 
ad Numeros. MS. Bo : N. E. F. ro, 
“ Tra&atum 
€ a se 
Lib. i. 
ientiom Ma ca 
ae Bostwn Pr. Omne_ 
“« Canones ae Tabulas Alghonfves ‘ "be Qui 
Philofophum, 4to. Phyficorum. MS. Bodl. Digh 
“ ColleGtionem ts de Rebu 
MS. Cotton. Vefpaf. E. Vil. 
. fol. 72. cu « Prolo us In Opus, 
s Canonum minutiarum Philofophie 
carum et ‘Vu gata, ee compofuit Mag. Johannes de 
Normannus A. MCCCXXI. a quo eodem anno 
(verba funt eecae) Notitia Artis Mufice cape et 
figurande tam menfurabilis quam plane, quantum 
modum poffibilem difcantandi, non fo 
ufque ad minutiffimas fraGtiones :”” * Cogn 
drature’”’perfetiffime demonttra 
Alphonfi” regis Caftellia: et Genea 
caruit, & 
sea aliud. . Bodl. Digby 97. ubi habetur hee * 
nota: Hos eae :difpofait Joannes de Mauris Parifiis i in 
A. MCCCXXXIX. in Domo Scolarium de Sorbona. 
‘© De ConjunGione Saturni et Jovis,” A. MCCCXLV. Pr. 
Tres ee ex Militia. MS. Bo di. Digby 176. Bal. 
di fe 
Pp- p- 072. q.”” 
As ail the as in the lift of his writings which concern 
mufic kave been carefully examined, we will endeavour to 
convey to the vere an idea of their contents, 
The traé& which begins ** Quoniam Mufica eft de Sone 
relato ad eee is now marke tis a 
treatife of Harmonics, in which the circula i 
diagrams and Saas of the fcale are innumerable, e 
of the circle in this 5 Torin was 
dred an after. The ‘tranferiber ins, however, 
a 
which, perhaps, the injury to m 
fent age isnot pes confiderable. * © Explicit Mufica Magittri 
Joannes de Muris.’ 
at follows in the manufcript is manifeftly a continua- 
tion of ie fubjeGt, and a fecond part of the eres ee 
begins thus: “‘ Princeps Phi it plemn Ariftotele 
in ae ee Mathematice fue omnino Scientis Signum ct 
offe docer We find after the introduétion a repetition 
of the ae fentence of the firlt part: “ Quoniam Mufica 
This gaat howeres, re~ 
ot 
et 
$ per minimam, minima 
ee ae by thefe aoa. be, pers 
