Copied by a single scribe, perhaps the 'M. Io.' [= Magister Johannes?] mentioned on new f. 7. Copied in Padua. Later owned by Este family of Ferrara. Este family library transferred to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892.
| Archive | Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy (I-MOe) |
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| Shelfmark | MS {alpha}.F.9.9 |
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| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 112 x 166 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 99 compositions, 9 from 4 composers, 90 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Many missing folios
Binding
Restored original covers of dark brown leather over boards, tooled in gold with ornamental designs.
Watermark
Only fragments of watermarks visible: (1) eagle? within circle; (2) three-tongued figure within circle surmounted by cross
Liminary Note
Inscriptions on parchment folios:
"PRO NOST. AMI/COR. Q. SO/LATIO" (f. 1')
Latin and Ialian prose an verse in praise of music (ff. 2'-3)
"PIERIDES. M. IO. AD FRAN. DE. FA. ALUMN. S." (f. 7)
"PATAVII. IIII. NONAS OCTOBRES. / A PRIMA ELEMENTOR. CON/CORDIA OLIMPIADE / M.CCC.XIIII (f. 7')
Notation
not indicated
Dedication
dedicatory sonnet in Italian on f.7
Foliation
80 ff
Foliation
Original ink foliation (upper right rectos) on original paper folios, 4-7; 14-18; 21; 30; 33-38; 43-48; 54-80; 82-89; 91-101 (last three folios unnumbered). Modern foliation, 1-80, on lower left rectos, includes parchment folios
Decoration
Calligraphic initials in red, green, blue, yellow, and gold; margins decorated with birds, fruits, flowers, insects, faces, figures, etc. First and last parchment folios coloured purple; some musical notation on new f. 8' in gold.
Index
Original alphabetical index on new ff. 3'-5' lists 100 pieces (omits one Italian piece and three textless works; 22 listed pieces now missing due to lost folios). Modern index on flyleaves at beginning.
Surface
ix paper + 8 parchment + 72 (of an original 104) paper + i paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s. 80 ff. (+ 9 ff. limin. ajoutés postérieurement, foliotation moderne I-IX). Papier et parchemin (f. 8 purpureus) 111X166 mm. Foliotation ancienne en haut des ff.: 1-101 devenue discontinue après la disparition de nombreux feuillets, et foliotation moderne au bas des ff.: 1-80. Suivant la foliotation moderne, les ff. IX r. et v., 1 et 8 sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Aux ff. limin. II à VIIIv, tables récentes du ms. Aux ff. 3v-5v, table ancienne du ms. portant une numérotation des pièces en chiffres romains et comprenant aussi les pièces qui mq. actuellement. Initiales et marges ornées, fleurs et oiseaux en couleurs. Reliure ancienne cuir brun.
La belle décoration et le style de l'écriture du ms. montrent bien qu'il était destiné à un amateur raffiné, ce que viennent corroborer les textes copiés aux premiers ff. révélateurs d'un milieu humaniste et donnant de surcroît quelques éclaircissements concernant la date du ms.: f.lv: «PRO NOST. AMI/COR. Q.SO/LATIO»; f.2: tête de Christ; f.2v: «Quid possit musica» avec longue citation de «S. Isidori Hispalensis Sententiae de musica», suivie au ƒ.3 d'un sonnet «Grande e la forgia e grandi son gli affetti» . . . sous le même titre «Quid possit musica». Après la Table aux ff. 3v-5v, le f.6 porte une citation de Piine (Naturalis Historiae): «Harmoniaca ratio rerum . . .»; f.6v: éloge de la musique d'une écriture recherchée difficile à interpréter; ƒ.7: Sonnet «Perche non fosti a reverir ne lento» sous le titre «PIERIDES.M.IO.AD.FRAN.DE./ FA.ALUMN.S.»; ƒ.7v une inscription très hermétique permet de conclure que le scribe a commencé sa copie le 4 octobre 1495 (n.st. 1496). (cf. Jeppesen LF 11,79). Probablement copié à Padoue, peut-être (pour son usage personnel) par Crispinus de Stappen qui y était organiste depuis 1492 et dont la frottola «Vale vale de Padua» qui termine le ms (n° 82) a pu être composée en 1493, date à laquelle le musicien dut partir pour Rome, abandonnant Padoue où il devait d'ailleurs bientôt revenir pour y rester jusqu'en 1499. D'autre part, le fait qu'on y trouve encore des textes du poète Serafino Aquilano (nos 5 et XI qui mq.) mort en 1500, permet de supposer que la copie était terminée à cette date, la réputation de ce poète mineur ne lui ayant vraisemblablement guère survécu. Sur les 103 compositions primitives, 82 seulement nous sont parvenues (dont 18 incomplètes), qui adoptent le plus souvent la forme du strambotto.
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1 motet, 77 Italian secular pieces, 1 Latin/Italian secular piece, 3 textless pieces = 82 (18 incomplete)
Ana [Franciscus Venetus]-2, G. Brocco [Io. Ant. broc.]-3, (Cara)-1, F.-1, Stappen [Crispinus]-2, anon-73
ix paper + 8 parchment + 72 (of an original 104) paper + i paper folios, 112 x 166. Original ink foliation (upper right rectos) on original paper folios, 4-7; 14-18; 21; 30; 33-38; 43-48; 54-80; 82-89; 91-101 (last three folios unnumbered). Modern foliation, 1-80, on lower left rectos, includes parchment folios. Restored original covers of dark brown leather over boards, tooled in gold with ornamental designs. Original alphabetical index on new ff. 3'-5' lists 100 pieces (omits one Italian piece and three textless works; 22 listed pieces now missing due to lost folios). Modern index on flyleaves at beginning. Copied by a single scribe, perhaps the "M. Io." [= Magister Johannes?] mentioned on new f. 7. Calligraphic initials in red, green, blue, yellow, and gold; margins decorated with birds, fruits, flowers, insects, faces, figures, etc. First and last parchment folios colored purple; some musical notation on new f. 8' in gold. Only fragments of watermarks visible: (1) eagle? within circle; (2) three-tongued figure within circle surmounted by cross. Inscriptions on parchment folios: (1) "PRO. NOST. AMI/COR. Q. SO/LATIO" [new f. 1']; (2) Latin and Italian prose and verse in praise of music [new ff. 2'-3]; (3) "PIERIDES. M. IO. [= Magister Johannes?] AD. FRAN. DE. FA. ALUMN. S. [= Francesco de Faa Alumnus Semenarii?]," followed by dedicatory sonnet in Italian [new f. 7]; (4) "PATAVII. IIII. NONAS OCTOBRES. / A PRIMA ELEMENTOR. CON/CORDIA OLIMPIADE / M.CCC.XIIII" [new f. 7'].
1495-6 (JepFR). Copied in Padua. Later owned by Este family of Ferrara. Este family library transferred to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Zanovello, Giovanni. 2016. 'You Will Take This Sacred Book’: The Musical Strambotto as a Humanistic Gift. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 141: 1-26.
La Face Bianconi, Giuseppina. 1990. Gli strambotti nel codice estense a.F.9.9. Studi e testi per la storia della musica, 8: 408pp.
‡ D'Accone, Frank A (editor). 1987. Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, MS alpha F.9.9. Renaissance Music in Facsimile, vol. 13. New York. Notes: contents list; concordances; physical description; facsimile; texts; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1983. The Foligno Fragment: Another Source from FifteenthCentury Naples. Datierung und Filiation von Musikhandschriften der Josquin-Zeit, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 26. Wiesbaden. Pages: Facsimile reproduction, with introduction by Frank A. D'Accone, in preparation for series Renaissance Music in Facsimile (Garland Publishing Co.). Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: II, 164.
Atlas, Allan W. 1977. On the Neapolitan Provenance of the Manuscript Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, 431 (G 20). Musica Disciplina, 31: 45ff. Pages: 48-9, 96-9. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Cattin, Giulio. 1977. Musiche per le Laude di Castellano Castellani. Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, 12: 183-230. Pages: 215, 228-9. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).
Litterick, Louise. 1976. The Manuscript Royal 20. A. XVI of the British Library. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 118. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Kämper, Dietrich. 1970. Studien zur Instrumentalen Ensemblemusik des 16. Jahrhunderts in Italien. Analecta Musicologica, 10: . Pages: 15, 57-61 Notenanhang, 1-2. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14. Tutzing. Pages: I, 74-6; II, 138-40. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, xxxi, 76-82, 166-71, 316-9, passim; III,163ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gallico, Claudio. 1963. Poesie musicali di Isabella d'Esté. Collectanea historiae musicae III, Historiae Musicae Cultores, vol. XVII. 109ff. Firence.
Cattin, Giulio. 1958. Contributi alla storia della lauda spirituale: Sulla evoluzione musicale e letteraria della lauda nei secoli XIV e XV. Quadrivium, 2: 45-75. Pages: 69, 74. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fava, Domenico, and Mario Salmi. 1950-73. Manoscritti Miniati della Biblioteca Estense di Modena. Florence. Pages: II, 51, Tav. XXIII/2. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipits of contents (partial); facsimile (partial).
Lodi, Pio. 1917. Catalogo delle Opere Musicali teoriche e pratiche ... Città di Modena R. Biblioteca Estense. Bollettino dell'Associazione dei Musicologi Italiani, vol. VIII. Parma. Pages: 533-4. Notes: physical description; contents list.
Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 454. Notes: physical description (partial).
[No Author] 1868. Poesie musicali dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI tratte da vari codici per cura di Antonio Cappelli, con un saggio della musica dei tre secoli. Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite o rare dal secolo XIII al XVII, vol. XCIV. Pages: 10ff et 55ff.
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Giovanni Zanovello
Friday, 24 March, 2023
Added articles by La Face Bianconi & Zanovello, and D'Accone's facsimile edition, to bibliography
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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