Source: GB-Ob MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229

Archive

Bodleian Library [GB-Ob]

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229

Date

Late 14th or early 15th century

Description

External data sources: images; transcribed texts

DIAMM information (this information supersedes that given in RISM or the Census Catalogue) (Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)):

Gloria on f. 37r (now f. 55r) is the second voice of a Gloria found in Ghent 133; all three of the voices were found previously in the destroyed manuscript Gdańsk 2315. See Cuthbert, Studi Musicali 2010.

Census Catalogue Description:

From Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550 5 vols., Renaissance Manuscript Studies (Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988) Vol. 2, p. 277 and Vol. 4, p. 254

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[Scriptores Ecclesiastici] 229 (= MadanSC 19215) [see also PadU 684 and PadU 1475]

Theological writings, with polyphony:

1 Gloria, 1 Credo, 3 Sanctus, 1 motet, 2 Italian secular pieces, 3 French secular pieces = 11

Barbitonsoris-1, Berlantus [Berlatus]-1, (Ciconia)-1, (Jacopo da Bologna?)-1, Landini [M. Francisci de Florentia]-1, (Machaut)-1, Mediolano-1, anon-4

73 parchment folios, ca. 320 x 240. Composite of several unrelated items dating from 12th-15th centuries. Modern foliation, 1-73. Modern cardboard covers; leather spine. Contents include theological writings (ff. 1-52 and ff. 58-73'), monophonic music (f. 57), and polyphonic music (ff. 53-56). Original foliation, 33-34; 37-38, still visible on folios with polyphony, which belong to same original manuscript as PadU 684 and PadU 1475. Black mensural notation on red staves. Copied by a single scribe. Inked Gothic initials.

Late 14th or early 15th century (ClercxJC). Folios with polyphony copied at St. Giustina Benedictine Abbey in Padua. Remained at St. Giustina until 1797, then taken to Paris. Later acquired by the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice. Canonici collection passed to Giovanni Perissinotti in 1807; sold to Bodleian Library in 1817.

RISM description:

RISM B/IV 4: 14./15. Jh.; 4 Blätter Pergament, ca. 320 x 240 mm. Originale Foliierung f. 33, 34, 37, 38. Je Seite 10 (f. 38v 11) rote Fünfliniensysteme mit schwarzer Trecentonotation - Einband: 19. Jh.; Karton mit Lederrücken.

Die beiden Doppelblätter, zwischen denen ein weiteres Doppelblätter. fehlt, stammen aus dem Paduaner Kloster S. Giustina (vergleiche Notiz auf f. 37v) und gehörten offenbar zur gleichen Handschrift wie die Fragmente I-Pu684 und I-PU1475. Nach Clercx wurde diese ursprünglich umfangreiche Handschrift im ausgehenden 14. Jh. (oder um 1400) geschrieben. Die beiden Blätter finden sich heute in einem Sammelband der Canonici-Abteilung der Bodleian Library. Sie tragen dort die Foliozahlen 53-56. Auf f. 1-52 (14. Jh.) des Sammelbandes stehen Teile aus den Quaestiones quodlibetales von Thomas von Aquin; f. 57 Notenblatt des 12./13. Jh. mit einstimigen Antiphonen und Responsorien; f. 58-73v (12. Jh.) Briefe des Ambrosius unter anderem.

INCIPITVERZEICHNIS

Die erste Folioziffer bezieht sich auf die Originalfoliierung (vergleiche I-Pu684 und I-Pul475), die zweite auf die Foliierung des Sammelbandes GB-Ob229.

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Provenance

Italy

Notation

Black mensural notation on red staves

RISM

RISM 1

Bibliography

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• View Besseler, Heinrich: 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philipp van Vitry' Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 8 (1926), 137-258 , 233-5 [Notes: DL]
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Table of contents

• View 1 3353 Sanctus
• View 2 33v Benedicamus Domino
• View 3 33v O cieco mondo di lusinghe pieno   - Jacopo da Bologna (Jacobus, Iachobus, Magister Jachobus de Bononia)
• View 4 33v-34 Sanctus   - Mediolano
• View 5 34v Credo. Patrem omnipotentem   - Berlatus (Berlantus)
• View 6 37 Gloria. Et in terra pax
• View 7 37 Sones ces nachares apertmant
• View 8 37v Sanctus   - Barbitonsoris
• View 9 38 Donna s'i' t'ò fallito   - Francesco Landini (Landino, Franciscus; Magister Franciscus de Florentia; Magister Franciscus Coecus Horghanista de Florentia; Francesco degli orghani; Cechus de Florentia)
• View 10 38 Et mon començement est ma fin
• View 11 38v Sus une fontaine en remirant

Relationships

Persons and places

• copied at: St. Guistina Benedictine Abbey in Padua
• owner: Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice (antiquarian book collector)
• owner: Giovanni Perissinotti, 1807

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• 53v
• 54
• 54v
• 55
• 55v
• 56
• 56v