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Kupfertafeln fehlen
Der Druck ist eine Kopie des Originals aus der Staatsbibliothek München. Das Druckbild beinhaltet viel Grauschatten, was die Leserlichkeit schwächt und leider ist keine der Kupfertafeln mitgedruckt worden - was diese Ausgabe sehr unbefriedigend bleiben lässt. Aber schön, dass es eine preiswerte Paperback-Ausgabe gibt - nur vollständig wäre sie zu empfehlen.
T**R
because the book itself is professionally printed in a good, trade-paperback format
The 'one-star' indication is somewhat misleading, because the book itself is professionally printed in a good, trade-paperback format. My problem with this edition is that it was advertised on the Amazon.ca site as being in English, and it is not. It is, in fact, printed from a scan of a very old German translation (of the Latin original), which was obtained from the Bayerische Staats Bibliotek in Munich, and it is entirely in the German language. Worse, it is printed in German Blackletter type. For someone like me who reads German almost not at all, it is entirely useless as a theoretical treatise on polyphonic counterpoint (which is what it is); its sole utility to me is as a reproduction of a historical document, a sort of coffee-table curiosity. I cannot read it; I cannot use it.Since Amazon charged me less than $4.00 for this book, I have not asked for a refund (and I won't; I'm not that cheap!), but the price has gone up radically since I ordered my copy, and I would like to warn potential buyers that THIS BOOK IS NOT IN ENGLISH. If you read German, and can deal with somewhat blurry, old, German Blackletter printing, it might be worth it to you. If not, keep looking for a good English translation. There has to be one out there somewhere.
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