The music editions of christian egenolff a new catalogue and its implications

Christian Egenolff is one of the most important music printers in the German-speaking area in the sixteenth century, in part because he was the first German printer to use singleimpression movable type to print mensural music (which is much cheaper than the previous double-impression process), and in part because of his editions of Tenorlieder. Music, however, formed a very small part of his output, both in terms of total editions (sixteen of more than 600 editions) and of the physical scale of the editions. To place this into perspective, to print one copy of each of his known music editions (excluding the lost Gesangbüchlin) would have taken 282 sheets of paper; to print one copy of his 1534 bible (VD16 B 2692) took 290 sheets of paper.