Musicae epitome ex Glareani dodecachordo

nor could anyone amend, through the art, what was incorrectly noted in the books. This happened primarily because they are ignorant of the sole and principal scope of Music, namely the solid knowledge of the Modes. The cause of this ignorance is that they do not seek the fountainhead itself, I mean Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, 6th-century Roman philosopher whose works were foundational to medieval music theory and those like him, neither in Latin nor in Greek. Since Boethius, a wondrous craftsman of this art, directed the entire business of Music toward a consummate knowledge of the Modes, as is clearly to be seen in the same author in book four. And truly, there is in no other science so much vanity as