black Notre Dame
| Archive | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany (D-Mbs) |
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| Shelfmark | Mus. MS 4775 |
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| Surface | Parchment |
| Measurements | 155 x 110 / 142 x 116 / 142 x 103 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 40 compositions, 40 are anonymous. |
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RISM B/IV 1: The 13th century parchment fragments in question here are assumed to come from the same manuscript in DittmerZ, an exhaustive study of MüA. Whether they do or not, they may be arranged in the 5 groups A-E employed in the above-mentioned work. A includes the 2 Munich bifolios as well as some Berlin fragments and contains 25 two-part motets, B contains one three-part and 10 two-part motets, C contains the remains of 3 two-part organa from the Magnus Liber Organi, D has 2 lays and 2 conductus, and E only 1 conductus. Only Dl is polyphonic in sections D and E : this three-part conductus follows the first lay in section D. The numbering in the present volume does not take into account any pieces which may have been lost as DittmerZ does, since the RISM is only concerned with extant music. Photographs of the Wolf fragments are preserved among the Rokseth photos in the Bibl. Nat. in Paris, Dépt. de Musique, Vma 1446. The Munich pages were acquired in 1873 from the Antiquarians Kirchoff and Wigand in Leipzig, and Dittmer thinks Wolf obtained his leaves c. 1920. Complex A consists of 4 consecutive bifolios, whose original size was approx. 155 x 110mm., but now they are a little smaller, Fol. 1+8 and 4+5 are the Munich pages, while f. 2+7 and 3+6 were preserved in Wolf's library as 4 and 3 strips respectively. The black Notre Dame type notation employs 12 red four- or occasionally five-line staves per page. Initials are red or red-blue. Complex B was made up of 2 bifolios the same size as those in complex A, and is doubtless from the same codex as complex A. It is possible that only 1 bifolio is missing between the two we have, and so the numbers 1+6 and 2+5 used by Dittmer and Ludwig have been retained. Complex C consisted of a bifolio meas. 142 x 116 mm. with 3 accolades of 2 staves per page. Preserved were the top half of the bifolio + a strip of the bottom half, namely the right-hand bottom corner of f. 1. Complex D was a double page meas. 142 x 103 mm. The designation of the 2 folios as 1 and 6 is due to the assumption that 2 double pages are missing.
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Staehelin, Martin. 1999. Kleinüberlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik vor 1550 in deutschem Sprachgebiet: I: Die Notre-Dame-Fragmente aus dem Besitz von Johannes Wolf. Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen I: Philologisch-Historische Klasse, vol. 6. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. Notes: Facsimile of complexes A, B, C, D and E.
Dittmer, Luther A. 1960. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts Il: Wolfenbüttel 1099. Publications of Mediaeval Music Manuscripts, vol. 2. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: f. 252, 218-218a, 185v + 226v, 247v-248, 209-209v, 177-177V, 239-239V, 248v-249, 158-158v, 158v-159, 85-85v and 83-84 (facsimile of A 3, 4, 16, 17, 22, B2, 5, 8, 10, 11, C 1 and 2 after W2).
Dittmer, Luther A. 1959. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts IlI: Eine zentrale Quelle der Notre Dame-Musik. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 3. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: (reconstruction and complete transcription of MüA after Munich bifolio and Ludwig copies of Wolf fragments).
Dittmer, Luther A. 1959. Änderungen der Grundrhythmen in den Notre-Dame-Handschriften. Die Musikforschung, 12: 392ff.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1958. Bibliographie der ältesten französischen und lateinischen Motetten. Pages: XXXII etc.
Waite, W. 1954. The Rhythm of Twelfth Century Polyphony. Pages: 183ff, 221 ff and 235ff (transcription of C 1-3 after W1).
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1953. Sankt Victor Clausulae und ihre Motetten. Pages: 11 (diplomatic copies of A 24 and B 7).
Handschin, Jacques. 1949. The Summer Canon and its Background. Musica Disciplina, 3: 55-94, volume 5 (1951), 65-113. Pages: II, 91.
Kujlmann, G. 1938. Die zweistimmigen französischen Motetten des Kodex Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine H196. 2 vols. Pages: II, 159, 294, 163, 79, 134 (transcription of A 10-12, 16 and 21); II, 201, 207, 230, 239, 242.
Husmann, Heinrich. 1937. Die Motetten der Madrider Handschrift und deren geschichtliche Stellung. Archiv für Musikforschung, 2: 173ff. Pages: 181 (transcription of B 10 after Ma); 177.
Rokseth, Y. 1935+1939. Les Polyphonies du XIVe siecle. 4 vols. Pages: I-III, nos. 26, 50, 247, 215, 251, 210, 238, 90, 140 (facsimile and transcription of A 3, 4, 10-12, 16, 21, 22 and B 6 after Mo); IV, 68, 161, 171, 257, 267, 274, 283, 286f.
Baxter, J. H. 1931. An Old St. Andrew Music Book. Pages: f. 34v-35, 40v-41 and 39-39v (facsimile of C 1-3 after W1), f. 106-106v (facsimile of A 18 without T after W1).
Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1931. Sing- und Spielmusik aus älterer Zeit. Beispielband zur allgemeinen Musikgeschichte. 2nd edition Leipzig. Pages: pl. 3 (facsimile of B f. 1 and 2v).
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1926. Trouvère-Lieder und Motettenrepertoire. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 9: 8and65. Pages: 34 (transcription of A 19).
Wolf, Johannes. 1924. Die Tonschriften in Jedermann-Bücherei. Breslau. Pages: 127 (facsimile of B f. 5).
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 187ff.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1921, 1927. Rondeaux, Virelais und Balladen aus dem Ende des 12., dem 13. und dem ersten Drittel des 14. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols. Pages: II, 295f (transcription of A 3).
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation. Halle: Niemayer. Pages: 279ff, etc.
Wooldridge, Harry Ellis. 1901. Oxford History of Music I. Oxford: Clarendon. Pages: I, 358ff (transcription of A 18 after F).
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Joseph Mason
Monday, 25 August, 2025
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Elizabeth Eva Leach
Monday, 30 April, 2018
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