Laurent Guillo, Pierre I Ballard et Robert III Ballard. Imprimeurs du roy pour
la musique (1599-1673), Mardaga 2003, lists the book as 1612-B. In the notes he
says:
La datation de lâédition en 1612 vient dâune part de la présence du
privilège dâoctobre 1611, dâautre part de lâépît
Here is what Pascale Boquet and François-Pierre Goy had to say in the
introduction to the Fuzeau edition of the facsimile:
On Oct 16th 1611, Pierre Ballard obtained a ten-year 'privilège' to
print his brother's works. In the absence of a title page, date of
impression or inscription on the 'sy
