ATHANASIUS KIRCHER

FROM FULDA

PRIEST OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS The Society of Jesus is the Jesuit order, to which Kircher belonged.

UNIVERSAL MUSURGIA

original: "Musurgia Universalis." A term coined by Kircher, derived from the Greek for "work of the Muses," meaning the art of musical composition and its effects.

OR

THE GREAT ART

OF CONSONANCE AND DISSONANCE.

From the library of Saint Catherine of Paris

Volume II.

Table II
Shelf 3

Which contains:
{ In Book VIII. Wonderful Music.
{ In Book IX. The Magic of Consonance and Dissonance.
{ In Book X. The Harmony of the World.

Just as the nightingale original: "Philomela," the mythological name for the nightingale. produces a thousand sounds from her throat,
So this Great Art gives forth a thousand voices in this Volume.

A circular emblem contains a woodcut of a nightingale perched upon an open musical score or book. The bird has its beak open as if in song. A small circular stamp from the "National Library of Printed Books" original: "BIBLIOTHEQUE NAT. IMPRIMES" is visible at the bottom of the emblem.

The bird is an omen to the prophet Apollo,
Who is said to be the nourishing father of music and meter. — Terence original: "Præsaga Vati Avis est Apollini, Qui Musicæ almus fertur & metri parens." A reference to the Roman playwright Terence regarding Apollo's role as the god of music.

ROME, from the presses of Ludovico Grignani. In the Jubilee Year 1650.

WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE SUPERIORS.

This indicates the text passed official ecclesiastical censorship.

Mathematics
Reserved F. 142