I-La MS 184 (Mancini Codex or Lucca Codex)

Archivio di Stato Lucca, Lucca, Italy

choirbook: Late 14th and Early 15th century

Archive Archivio di Stato Lucca, Lucca, Italy (I-La)
Shelfmark MS 184 (Mancini Codex or Lucca Codex)
Surface Parchment
Measurements RISM: c.220 x 145-160; original size c. 235 x 162; DIAMM 220 (H) x 160 (W) mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Las184
  • RISM: Mn, Man, Luc
  • CCM: LucAS 184
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in red full
  • coloration in red void
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  • Italy
Contents Contains 80 compositions, 58 from 14 composers, 22 are anonymous.
General Description

Once part of larger musical manuscript; six additional folios from the same manuscript are now I-PEc MS 3065. (The assertion in Ghisi 1946-7 that I-PSac Bibliotheca musicalis, B. 3. 5 is likewise part of this manuscript was refuted in Gotti and Pirrotta 1949). Copied by one main scribe and two additional scribes; one of the latter also wrote parts of US-Cn Case MS Mlo 96.P36 (Lowinsky fragment) and F-Pn fonds italien 568 (Pit) (Pirrotta 1961). Copied either entirely in Lucca (Gotti and Pirrotta 1949); or, main corpus copied elsewhere in northern Italy; manuscript later brought to Lucca, where additions were entered (Clercx 1960). Original manuscript disassembled c. 1485-1589; bifolios used as covers for legal documents. In 1938, Prof. Augusto Mancini recovered the present 18 bifolios from legal documents in the same library.

Nadas and Ziino discovered 2 additional leaves of the codex c2005, subsequent to publishing their facsimile and commentary on the codex in 1990, which have since been added to the fragments collected under this shelfmark.

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010; DIAMM 2020.
Binding

Preserved loose, as fascicles reflecting the modern pencil numbering of bifolios by Nino Pirrotta, in modern folder

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Notation

Black full mensural with red full and red void coloration

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Ruling

8 black 5-line staves per page, except f.1a-4b which have 7 staves; Width of rastrum 15mm

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Foliation

1-44v

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Foliation

Most original foliation (in red and black ink, entered by several hands) trimmed away. Additional systems of foliation, pagination, or numbering: (1) modern pencil pagination, 1-72, in lower left corner of each page; (2) modern pencil numbering of bifolios by Nino Pirrotta (1a, 1b … 21a, 21b), includes three bifolios from PerBC 3065 (as 7, 13, and 14); (3) earlier modern pagination in lower right corner of many pages, entered prior to reconstitution of fascicles in present form; (4) other numbers at bottoms or sides of various folios appear to be numbering of fragments or, in some cases, numbering of pieces.

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Foliation

Other numberings: Some numbers on folios may be piece numbers

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Decoration

Initials in red and blue.

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
Surface

Parchment

Dr Giorgio Tori, 2010
RISM Description

18 bifolios. Modern foliation from 1a-16b; remainder original foliation XX...-LXXXV. 8 black 5-line staves per page, except f.1a-4b which have 7 staves.

RISM B/IV 4: 14./15. Jh.; 36 Blätter Pergament, ca. 220 x 145-160 mm (zum Teil beschnitten); ursprüngliches Format ca. 235 x 162 mm. Moderne Bleistiftfoliierung von f. 1a-16b (nach PirrottaL); Reste der originalen Foliierung (XX…-LXXXV…). Je Seite meist 8 (f. 1a-4b: 7) schwarze Fünfliniensysteme mit schwarzer, schwarz-roter und schwarz-weißer Mensuralnotation des späten 14. u. frühen 15. Jh.

Die aus insgesamt 8 Faszikels stammenden 18 Doppelblätter dieser von A. Mancini 1938 aufgefundenen Handschriften gehören mit den 3 Doppelblättern von I-PEco3065 zu einem ursprünglich umfangreichen Codex. Die einzelnen Doppelblätter dienten im späten 15. und 16. Jh. (ca. 1485-1589) als Deckblätter für Notariatsakten in Lucca. Die Handschrift muß sich also spätestens in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jh. in Lucca befunden haben. Über Herkunft und Datierung des Hauptcorpus gehen die Ansichten auseinander. Pirrotta, der als erster die Gesamtordnung der Handschrift erkannt hat, datiert: Lucca, um 1420 (Nachträge bis 1430), Clercx: Oberitalien (Padua?), spätes 14. Jh. (Nachträge: Lucca, bis 1430).

Nach Pirrotta mindestens 3 Schreiberhände: Hauptcorpus Nr. 1, 3-70 von Hand A; Nr. 71-73 von Hand B (toscanische Schrift); Nr. 2 (?) und 74-76 von Hand C; von Händen B und C auch die Komponistennamen bei Nr. 23, 45, 61. - Fehlende Blätter.: vor Nr. 1, zwischen Nr. 4 und 5, 8 und 9, 11 und 12, 17. und 18, 19 und 20, 24 und 25 (2 Blätter), 27 und 28 (2 Blätter), 41 und 42 (3 Blätter), 44 und 45 (3 Blätter), 54 und 55, 65 und 66.

INCIPITVERZEICHNIS

Die im Incipitverzeichnis verwendete Numerierung und arabische Foliierung sind aus PirrottaL I, 134ff. übernommen. In Klammern sind die Reste der Originalfoliierung gesetzt.

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52 Italian secular pieces, 15 French secular pieces, 1 Latin/French secular piece — 68 (some incomplete)

Antonello da Caserta-7, Antonio da Cividale-3, Bartolino da Padua-11, Binchois-1, Ciconia-5 + 1?, Corsini? [… pitor]-1, Giovanni da Foligno [Joh. Fulg]-1, Landini-3, (Machaut?/Vaillant)-1, Nicolaus de Perugia [Ser Niccholay prepositi]-2, (Paulus de Florentia)-1 + 1?, Stephani-3, Zachara da Teramo-6, anon-21

36 parchment folios [= 18 bifolios], ca. 215-20 x 150-62 (trimmed from original size of ca. 235 x 162). Once part of larger musical manuscript; six additional folios from same manuscript now PerBC 3065. (GhiI assertion that Pist AC 5 is likewise part of original manuscript refuted by PirrL). Most original foliation (in red and black ink, entered by several hands) trimmed away. Additional systems of foliation, pagination, or numbering: (1) modern pencil pagination, 1-72, in lower left corner of each page; (2) modern pencil numbering of bifolios by Nino Pirrotta (1a, 1b … 21a, 21b), includes three bifolios from PerBC 3065 (as 7, 13, and 14); (3) earlier modern pagination in lower right corner of many pages, entered prior to reconstitution of fascicles in present form; (4) other numbers at bottoms or sides of various folios appear to be numbering of fragments or, in some cases, numbering of pieces. Preserved loose, as fascicles reflecting order of (2) above, in modern folder. Black mensural notation with red full and red void coloration. Copied by one main scribe and two additional scribes; one of latter also wrote parts of ChiL s.s. and ParisBNI 568 (PirrPT). Initials in red and blue.

Ca. 1420, with additions until ca. 1430 (PirrL); main corpus copied during second half of 14th century (ClercxJC). Copied entirely in Lucca (PirrL). Main corpus copied elsewhere in northern Italy; manuscript later brought to Lucca, where additions were entered (ClercxJC). Original manuscript disassembled ca. 1485-1589; bifolios used as covers for legal documents. In 1938, Prof. Augusto Mancini recovered present 18 bifolios from legal documents in this library.

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Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. Trecento fragments and Polyphony beyond the codex. Harvard University, Ph.D.

‡ Nadas, John, and Agostino Ziino. 2005. Two newly discovered leaves from the Lucca Codex. Studi musicali, 34: 3-24(plusplates).

Bent, Margaret. 1996. Review of Facsimiles of the Squarcialupi MS and other sources. Early Music History, 15: 251-269.

‡ Nadas, John, and Agostino Ziino. 1990. The Lucca Codex. Codice Mancini. Lucca, Archivio di Stato, ms. 184. Perugia, Biblioteca comunale Augusta, ms. 3065. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition. Ars Nova, vol. 1.  Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana.

Nadas, John. 1989. The Lucca Codex and MS San Lorenzo 2211: Native and Foreign Songs in Early Quattrocento Florence, paper read at the Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Austin TX 1989. Arte Psallentes. John Nádas: Studies in Music of the Tre- and Quattrocento. Collected in Honor of his 70th Birthday,  Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.

Baumann, Dorothea. 1978. Some Extraordinary Forms in the Italian Secular Trecento Repertoire. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento IV, Pages: 53-4. Notes: contents list (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hagopian, Viola L. 1973. Italian Ars Nova Musik: A Bibliographic Guide to Modem Editions and Related Literature. 2nd ed.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London. Pages: 53-5, passim. Notes: additional bibliography.

Pirrotta, Nino. 1972. New Glimpses of an Unwritten Tradition. Words and Music: The Scholar's View ... Compiled in Honor of A. Tillman Merritt, edited by Nino Pirrotta, 271-91. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Department of Music, Harvard University. Pages: 288-91. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Schlager, Karlheinz (editor). 1971-. Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Series A/I, vol. Einzeldrucke vor 1800.  Kassel. Pages: B IV/4,929-47. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits; additional bibliography.

Pirrotta, Nino. 1971. Zacharus Musicus. Quadrivium, 12: 153-75. Pages: 155ff, 172-5. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Apel, Willi (editor). 1970-72. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 53.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I, xxxiii, xliii; III, xxiv-ff, 238ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).

Gallo, Franco Alberto (editor). 1968-70. Il Codice Musicale 2216 della Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna. Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica: III. Mensurabilia, vol. 3. 2 vols. Bologna. Pages: 12. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Petrobelli, Pierluigi. 1968. Some Dates for Bartolino da Padova. Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk, edited by Pierluigi Petrobelli, 85-112. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pages: 84, 94-105. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Günther, Ursula. 1966. Die 'anonymen' Kompositionen des Manuskripts Paris, B.N., fonds it. 568 (Pit). Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 23: 73-92. Pages: 83ff, Abb. 25. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Goldine, Nicole. 1962. Fra Battolino da Padova, Musicien de Cour. Acta Musicologica, 34: 142-55. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1960. Johannes Ciconia, un musicien liégois et son temps. Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts: Mémoires: Collection in-4, II série, vol. X, fasc. 1a/1b. 2 vols. Brussels: Palais des Académies. Pages: I, 54-9, 65-7; II, 43-62, 69-72, 91. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Layton, Billy Jim. 1960. Italian Music for the Ordinary of the Mass 1300-1450. Harvard University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 198,243ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fischer, Kurt von. 1958. Trecentomusik-Trecentoprobleme: Ein kritischer Forschungsbericht. Acta Musicologica, 30: 179-99. Pages: 181-2. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Schrade, Leo. 1958. Übertragungen der Werke Landinis. Pages: (Übertragungen von Nr. 18, 19, 71). - Vergleiche ferner Ausgaben unter I-PEco3065.

Rehm, Wolfgang (editor). 1957) & Vol. VI: Mehrstimmige Lamentationen aus der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, Massenkeil, G (ed.) (1965) & Vol. VII-VIII. Heinrich Isaac Messen, Staehelin, Martin (ed.) (1970-1973. Die Chansons von Gilles Binchois (1400-1460). Musikalische Denkmäler, vol. II.  Pages: II, Nr. 50 (Übertragung von Nr. 2).

Fischer, Kurt von. 1957. Kontrafakturen und Parodien Italienischer Werke des Trecento und Frühen Quattrocento. Annales Musicologiques, 5: 43-59. Pages: 47. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1956-. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 24 vols. Monaco. Pages: Commentary to Vol. IV, 33ff, passim; VIII, 204ff, passim; IX, 196ff, passim; X, 149ff, passim; XI, 169-77, passim; XIX, 195; XXIV, 121-5,134-5,150-1,156-9,209-14. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Fischer, Kurt von. 1956. Studien zur italienischen Musik des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, vol. Serie II, Vol. 5.  Bern: Paul Haupt. Pages: 96f.

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1955-83. Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 11, 1-6.  Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V, xvi, 3-6; VI, ix, xviii-xix, xxxi, xxxvi-xxxviii, 20-5, 28-30, 124-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).

Pirrotta, Nino (editor). 1954-1998. The Music of Fourteenth Century Italy. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 8 (1-5).  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V, Nr. 40-43 (Übertragungen von Nr. 61, 71-73).

Disertori, Benvenuto. 1954. La frottola nella storia della musica. Monumenta N.I., Cremona, Instituta et monumenta, Serie I. 9ff. Pages: xi-xiv. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Monterosso, Raffaele, and Benvenuto Disertori. 1954. Le Frottole nell'edizione Principe di Ottaviano Petrucci. Instituta et Monumenta, Serie I, vol. Mon. N. 1.  Cremona. Pages: XI-XIII (Übertragungen von Nr. 23, 35, 69).

‡ Gotti, Ettore Li, and Nino Pirrotta. 1949-1951. II codice di Lucca. Musica Disciplina, 3-4-5: III, 119-38; IV, 111-52; V, 115-42. Pages: I, 130ff. (Faksimiles von Nr. 3, [4], [62], 63, 72, 76); II, 150ff. (Übertragungen von Nr. 23, 31, 61). Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); texts; mention of MS; discussion; additional bibliography.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: I, 705; VIII, 1249-51. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); mention of MS; discussion; additional bibliography.

Fischer, Kurt von. 1949-79. Lucca Codex. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st Edition, . Pages: VIII, 1249ff.

Bonaccorsi, A. 1948. Un nuovo codice dell'Ars Nova: II codice Lucchese. Memorie dell' Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, .

Mancini, Augusto. 1947. Frammenti di un nouvo codice dell'Ars Nova. Rendiconti della Classe di Scienze morali, storielle e filologiche dell' Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, . Pages: 85ff.

Ghisi, Federico. 1946-47. Italian Ars-Nova Music: The Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca musical codex and other unpublished early 15th century sources. Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music, 1: 173-91. Pages: 173ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

‡ Mancini, Augusto. 1939. Un nuovo codice dell'Ars Nova. Sonderdruck aus Relazioni della XXVIII Riunione della S.I.P.S.V., .

Gröber, Gustav. 1887. Zu den Liederbüchern von Cortona. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 11: 371-404. Pages: 371ff, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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