OF THE HARMONIC VOLUME DIVIDED

INTO THREE PARTS, ARRANGED ACCORDING

TO ITS OWN ORDER.

OF THE TONES OF THE FIRST SONG.

[Q] Historiated initial depicting the Creator or a philosopher. Who is the progenitor of the world, and by what harmony he enjoys the most exalted unity. Tone I.
By what concord things, principles, and the descriptions of them agree or disagree. Tone II.
By what consonant number the supreme craftsman original: opifex descends into all created things. Tone III.
By what mutual harmonies original: concentibus the primary kinds of things agree with each other and with the Archetype. Tone IV.
By what consonantal intervals they are filled. Tone V.
By what concord all things are contained in man, as if in a small instrument An allusion to the "microcosm," the idea that the human being contains the proportions of the entire universe.. Tone VI.
By what sonority all things, even particulars existing in this soiled world, agree with the Archetype. Tone VII.
What is the ultimate thing, into which all diapasonic diapasonic: pertaining to the "diapason" or octave, the most perfect musical interval that encompasses all other notes harmonies are reduced. Tone VIII.

OF THE FIRST TONE.

[Q] Historiated initial depicting a scholar at study. What we can learn about God from holy men enlightened by divine light, which we treat here. Chapter I.
That without such light, all who speak of God have wandered through many devious paths. Chapter II.
And though we cannot understand what God is, we are nevertheless taught that God exists by both oracles and reason, and by the consensus of all. Chapter III.
How, through the trace or image of created things and their harmony with the Archetype, we can arrive at a knowledge of His fecundity original: fecunditatis, referring to God’s creative fruitfulness. Chapter IV.
That God is full of the fecundity of all things and numbers, so that He can produce all things most harmoniously. Chapter V.
That God is one. Chapter VI.
That the most fecund first mind, which is called God, produced inward and outward. Chapter VII.