A Tenor partbook from a set originally of four volumes. Copied by one main scribe (ff. 4-76), with slightly later additions by a second scribe (ff. 76'-78). Copied in Florence; probably owned by Giuliano de' Medici (RedmS). Purchased by Bibliothèque Nationale in 1866 at sale of collection of Nicolas Yemeniz (d. 1871) of Lyons, a prominent silk manufacturer and diplomat; Yemeniz' bookplate pasted inside front cover.
F-Pnm NAF 1817
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
partbook: 1515-6
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | NAF 1817 |
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| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 123 x 175 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 79 compositions, 65 from 14 composers, 14 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown leather over boards, decorated with tooled geometric designs and gold-stamped leaf motifs.
Notation
black void mensural
Ruling
Staff height 12
Foliation
New ink foliation, 1-84; original ink foliation, 1-81? (mostly obliterated by later trimming), beginning on first folio with music (= new f. 4).
Decoration
Painted initials (light blue, purple, light green, and silver on blue, green, or red grounds), with gold filigree work and floral designs; folios gilt-edged. Decoration attributed to workshop of Giovanni Boccardi (SlimGM). Coat of arms of Medici family on new f. 41, as part of initials for Isaac's 'Palle, palle.' Historiated initial for Isaac's 'Prophetarum maxime' on new f. 64 depicts dog chained to tree, with motto 'Constante' on scroll behind tree..
Index
Original index on new ff. 1-2' lists first 42 pieces only, in alphabetical order by title.
Surface
parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 5: [the description covers all three books]
XVIes. Parchemin, 122 x 175 mm. 3 livres; Sup. (CT96), 2ff. n.ch. portant la table incompl. Qu ms. + 87ff. dont les 13 derniers sont blancs. Foliotation ancienne: 1-50 puis moderne: 51-75, les derniers ff. sans numérotation; Ct. (CT95), 2ff. n.ch. portant la table incomplète + 88 ff. dont les 13 derniers sont blancs. Foliotation ancienne: 1-51 puis moderne: 51-88 avec quelques lacunes; T. (Pn1817), 2ff. n.ch. portant la table incomplète + 84ff. Foliotation ancienne avec lacunes, souvent rognée, et foliotation moderne: 1-84 d'après laquelle les ff. 3r-v, 32, 78v à 84v sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Initiales ornées en coul. Reliures anciennes veau estampé, fers dorés, dos refaits au Sup. et Ct. Mq. le livre du Bassus.
Les livres du Sup. et du Ct. ont été acquis en 1879 pour le compte de la Biblioteca de Cortona par Girolamo Mancini qui y était alors bibliothécaire, tandis que le livre du T. a été acheté par la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris en 1866 à la vente de l'archéologue Yemenis. Le livre du B. n'a pas été jusqu'à présent retrouvé. On distingue dans chaque recueil 2 sections copiées par des scribes différents, le changement d'écriture se marquant au no 43, la table qui s'arrête au no 42 ne concernant donc que la 1ère partie. Les deux campagnes se sont vraisemblablement succédées sans interruption notable comme semble le prouver la dimension des marges et des portées exactement semblables et aussi les initiales de la main d'un même enlumineur pour les volumes entiers. Il est certain que ces volumes ont été compilés pour un membre de la famille Médicis, car au livre du T., l'initiale du no 37 est ornée des armes des Médicis surmontées d'un chapeau de cardinal. Si l'on admet qu'il s'agit de Giovanni, la 1ère partie du ms. aurait été copiée avant 1513, date où ce cardinal est devenu le pape Léon X. D'autre part, les deux médaillons portant l'inscription GLOVIS, devise adoptée par Giuliano de Médicis en 1515, on a le plus souvent attribué à celui-ci la possession du ms., bien qu'il n'ait jamais été cardinal (Gröber). Les nos 40 et 42 ayant un lien direct avec Laurent de Médicis (le no 42 a été composé pour sa mort en 1492), on pourrait penser (avec Pannella) que la 1ère partie du ms. aurait été copiée dès 1492-1494, si le répertoire n'était trop moderne pour justifier cette datation. Quant à la 2e section, le no 51 pour la mort d'Anne de Bretagne en 1514, et la mort de Giuliano survenue en 1516, en situent la copie entre ces deux dates.
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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19 motets, 31 French secular pieces, 4 Italian secular pieces, 1 macaronic secular piece = 55
(A. Agricola)-1, (Compère)-6, (Compère/Josquin/Ninot le Petit)-1, (Compère/Pipelare/Weerbecke)-1, (Danglon/Pesenti)-1, (A. Févin)-1, (Isaac)-9, (Japart)-1, (Josquin)-10, (Josquin/Pesenti)-1, (Mouton)-4, (Ninot le Petit)-3, (Ninot le Petit [Jo. le Petit]/ Obrecht)-1, anon-15
1 parchment partbook of an original 4 (T-84 folios), 123 x 175. D and A books from same original set now CorBC 95-6; B missing. New ink foliation, 1-84; original ink foliation, 1-81? (mostly obliterated by later trimming), beginning on first folio with music (= new f. 4). New ff. 3-3' blank; new ff. 78'-84' have blank staves only. Original covers of brown leather over boards, decorated with tooled geometric designs and gold-stamped leaf motifs. Original index on new ff. 1-2' lists first 42 pieces only, in alphabetical order by title.
Copied by one main scribe (ff. 4-76), with slightly later additions by a second scribe (ff. 76'-78). Staff height 12. Painted initials (light blue, purple, light green, and silver on blue, green, or red grounds), with gold filigree work and floral designs; folios gilt-edged. Decoration attributed to workshop of Giovanni Boccardi (SlimGM). Coat of arms of Medici family on new f. 41, as part of initials for Isaac's "Palle, palle." Historiated initial for Isaac's "Prophetarum maxime" on new f. 64 depicts dog chained to tree, with motto "Constante" on scroll behind tree.
1515-6 (GröbL, RedmS). Copied in Florence; probably owned by Giuliano de' Medici (RedmS). Purchased by Bibliothèque Nationale in 1866 at sale of collection of Nicolas Yemeniz (d. 1871) of Lyons, a prominent silk manufacturer and diplomat; Yemeniz' bookplate pasted inside front cover.
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Sets
Medici partbooks
Partbooks · 3 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Cummings, Anthony M. 1983. A Florentine Sacred Repertory from the Medici Restoration (Manuscript II. I. 232 [Olim Magi. XIX. 58; Gaddi 1113] of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence): Bibliography and History. Acta Musicologica, 55: 267-332. Pages: 274,280-92,309ff. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1982. Notes on the Origin of the Parisian Chanson. The Journal of Musicology, 1: 275-326. Pages: 284-5, 296-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1982. Obrecht's Missa Sine nomine and its Recently Discovered Model. The Musical Quarterly, 68: 102-27. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1981. Words and Music in Early loth-Century Chansons: Text Underlay in Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms Basevi 2442. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 7-141. Munich. Pages: 104ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Cummings, Anthony M. 1981. Medici Musical Patronage in the Early Sixteenth Century: New Perspectives. Studi Musicali, 10: 197-216. Pages: 203-4, 213. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Winn, Mary Beth. 1979. Some Texts for Chansons by Loyset Compere. Musica Disciplina, 33: 43-54. Pages: 50-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III. Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I, xxi-xxii, 26, 61-2; II, 37-8. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I, 49ff, 240-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Slim, H Colin. 1972. A Gift of Madrigals and Motets. Chicago and London. Pages: I, 36-7, Plate 27. Notes: facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Redmond, Mary. 1970. A Set of Part-Books for Giuliano de' Medici: Cortona, Biblioteca Comunale, Mss. 95, 96 and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Nouvelle Acquisition 1817. University of Illinois, Unpublished Master's thesis. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; facsimile (partial); texts; mention of MS; discussion.
Dunning, Albert. 1969. Die Staatsmotette 1480-1555. Utrecht. Pages: 19-26, 339-40. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (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, 17-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Pannella, Liliana. 1968. Le composizioni profane di una raccolta fiorentina del cinquecento. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 3: 3-47. Pages: 4, 39, 43-7. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 351-2. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: X, 800. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gröber, Gustav. 1887. Zu den Liederbüchern von Cortona. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 11: 371-404. Pages: 371ff [incorrectly referred to as MS 1819]. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Omont, Henri (editor). 1868-1902. Bibliothèque Nationale: Catalogue Général des Manuscrits Français. Paris. Pages: XV, 285. Notes: physical description.
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William Kempster
Friday, 10 July, 2026
The setting of 'Veci la danse barbari' in this ms is not the setting by Vacqueras (erroneously attributed to Compere in Segovia), nor does it share the music of Compere's "L'aultre jour" in Canti C and the Basevi Codex. As it is unattributed in the manuscript, there seems no reason to give this apparently unique setting of the piece to Compere.
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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