US-KCferrell MS 1, Machaut (Vogüé, Wildenstein, Machaut Vg)

Private Collection of James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell, Kansas City, United States

manuscript of polyphony: 14th century

Archive Private Collection of James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell, Kansas City, United States (US-KCferrell)
Shelfmark MS 1, Machaut (Vogüé, Wildenstein, Machaut Vg)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 320 x 90 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: MachVg
  • RISM: US-NYw
  • Other catalogues/source: Vg
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Ferrell-Vogüé MS. Private Collection of James E. and Elizabeth J. Ferrell
Notations
  • Ars Nova
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Provenance
  • France
Contents Contains 143 compositions from 1 composer.
General Description

Contains 2 lays, 23 motets, 38 Ballades, 15 Rondeaux (2 more were lost with f. 321), 6 Virelais, the mass and the hocket. Formerly in the possession of the Marquis de Vogüé, though it was lost until it turned up again in the 1950s among the possessions of the Wildenstein Galleries in New York. It was the chief source used by Ludwig in his Machaut edition. It seems to be the earliest of the complete manuscripts (except for F-Pn 1586, which is a later copy of a less complete source and cannot be compared with NYw, F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546 for comprehensiveness). NYw, F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546 are closely related to each other and seem to have been written, in that order, soon after each other, beginning with NYw c. 1369. A 15th century motto on the second front flyleaf suggests that this codex may have been in the hands of the Count of Foix, if not already in the 14th century, then probably in the 15th century at the latest.

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Physical Description

f. 321 and 383 have been lost.

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Notation

Ars Nova, with occasional red notes; liberal application of accidentals (which often conflict with F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546)

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Ruling

7-10 red five-line staves per page

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Foliation

An old foliation appears at t.r.r.

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Decoration

Miniatures and illuminated initials are as frequent in NYw as in the other principal Machaut sources, and blue, red and gold are lavishly applied

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Surface

parchment

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DIAMM Note

Images of this MS are made available by kind permission of James E and Elizabeth J Ferrell.

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2 : A 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 32 cm. in height and 9 cm. thick. It originally contained 392 folios, but f. 321 and 383 have since been lost. An old foliation appears at t.r.r. However, the copy of these pages in the 15th century ms F-Pn 1585 makes up for this loss. NYw was formerly in the possession of the Marquis de Vogüé, but after his death it was lost from musicologists' sight till it turned up again in the 1950s among the possessions of the Wildenstein Galleries in New York. This source was the principal one used by Ludwig in his Machaut edition. It seems to be the earliest of the complete manuscripts (except for F-Pn 1586, which is a later copy of a less complete source and cannot be compared with NYw, F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546 for comprehensiveness). NYw, F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546 are closely related to each other and seem to have been written, in that order, soon after each other, beginning with NYw c. 1369. A 15th century motto on the second front flyleaf suggests that this codex may have been in the hands of the Count of Foix, if not already in the 14th century, then probably in the 15th century at the latest. The musical notation is of Ars Nova type on 7-10 red five-line staves per page with occasional red notes and a liberal application of accidentals, which often conflict with F-Pn 1584 and F-Pn 22545-22546; these conflict among themselves to some extent in this respect. Miniatures and illuminated initials are as frequent in NYw as in the other principal Machaut sources, and blue, red and gold appear to be lavishly applied. The polyphonic music in NYw amounts to 2 lays, 23 motets, 38 Ballades, 15 Rondeaux (2 more were lost with f. 321), 6 Virelais, the mass and the hocket. As usual, the long and short poems without music occupy the first part of the ms, but La Prise d'Alexandrie was added after the music on f. 336-392v, which helps to date the source, since the Prise had obviously only just been written at the time. The hocket seems a little out of place too, since it here precedes the last of the Virelais.

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Earp, Lawrence M, Domenic Leo, and Carla Shapreau. 2014. The Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript with introductory study. DIAMM Facsimiles, vol. 5. 2 vols. Oxford: DIAMM Publications.

Maxwell, Sheila Kate. 2009. Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse. University of Glasgow, PhD.

Earp, Lawrence M. 1995. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research.  New York and London: Garland.

Bent, Margaret. 1983. The Machaut manuscripts Vg, B and E. Musica Disciplina, 37: 53-82.

Fischer, Kurt von, Max Lütolf, and Gilbert Reaney (editors). 1969. Répertoire international des sources musicales. Series B IV, vol. 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music.  Pages: 342-368.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1959. Musica Ficta in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Les Colloques de Wegimont II-1955, L'Ars nova: Recueil d'études sur la musiquedu XIVe siècle , 196ff. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Günther, Ursula. 1958. The fourteenth-century motet and its development. Musica Disciplina, 12: 27-58. Pages: 27ff.

Günther, Ursula. 1957. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestellt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeaux von Guillaume de Machaut sowie datierbaren Kantilenensätzen seiner Zeitgenossen und dierekten Nachfolger. University of Hamburg, Ph.D. dissertation.

Parrish, Carl. 1957. The Notation of Medieval Music. Pages: pl. L—LIII (facsimiles of Pn 22546 f. 131v-132 and 124v-125).

Reaney, Gilbert. 1956. Voices and Instruments in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Revue belge de musicologie, 10: 3-17and93-104.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1955-56. The Lais of Guillaume de Machaut and Their Background. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 82: 15-31,discussion31-32.

Machabey, Armand. 1955. Guillaume de Machault. 2 vols.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1955. The Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut: Melody, Rhythm and Form. Acta Musicologica, 27: 40ff.

Hughes, Dom Anselm, and Gerald Abraham (editors). 1954, 1957-. New Oxford History of Music II, III & IV. 3 vols. London/New York/Toronto. Pages: Reaney, 1-15.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: II—III (complete transcription of Machaut's musical works).

Reaney, Gilbert. 1953. Fourteenth Century Harmony and the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 7: 129ff.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1952. A Chronology of the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais Set to Music by Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 6: 33ff.

Gombosi, Otto Johannes. 1950. Machaut's Messe Notre-Dame. Musical Quarterly, 36: 204ff.

Machabey, Armand (editor). 1948. Guillaume de Machault: Messe Notre-Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.

Perle, G. 1948. Integrative Devices in the Music of Machaut. Musical Quarterly, 34: 169ff.

Apel, Willi. 1942. (4th ed., 1949). The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600.  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 343 ff.

Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: Ch. 12.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1929. Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte I, edited by Friedrich Ludwig,  Pages: 267ff.

Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3.  Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: I, III and IV.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910), 101ff; Die mehrstimmige Musik des 14. Jahrhunderts in <em>SIMG</em> IV (1902. Die mehrstimmige Musik des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Bericht über den III. Kongreß der IMG, 1909: 16ff. Pages: 21, 27ff, 33f, 36ff.

Hoepffner, Ernest. 1908-1921. Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. 3 vols. Pages: II, appendix (Ludwig's critical transcription of the music from the Remede de Fortune = Pn 22545 1-3).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I, 156ff, 167ff, II, nos. XIII-XXVI (diplomatic facsimiles of Pn 22546 6, 8, 9, 28, 29, 31, 74, 81, 83, 87, 35, 52, 65, 98).

Chichmaref, V (editor). [1909]. Guillaume de Machaut: Poésies lyriques. Edition compléte en deux parties, avec introduction, glossaire et fac-similés publiée sous les auspices de la Faculté d'Histoire et de Philologie de Saint-Pétersbourg.  Paris: Champion. Pages: complete edition of Machaut's lyric poems with and without music.

Van, Guillaume de. None. Guglielmi de Mascaudio: Messe Notre Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.

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Eve Beglarian

Saturday, 25 February, 2023

remede de fortune starts on Folio 90

Eve Beglarian

Saturday, 25 February, 2023

roi de navarre starts on Folio 60v

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Philip Taylor

Monday, 10 May, 2021

duplicate entry removed from inventory

Julia Craig-McFeely

Thursday, 8 February, 2018

Incorrect image for fol. 5r fixed.

John Stinson

Wednesday, 5 July, 2017

incorrect foliation due to inclusion of missing folio fixed.

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description