Cracovia civitas

Composer
Genre Motet

Attribution Note

attribution proposed (by Opienski & Perz) as it is 'paired' with another motet for the birth of a Polish prince

General Note

For the birth of a son of Władysław II Jagiełło in 1426/7. The text is also preserved (without music) in Prague MS VI A 7, f. 164v, where the text is attributed to S[tanislaum] Episcopum Poznanen[sem] - Stanisław Ciołek, vice-chancellor to Jagiello and Bishop of Poznan.

Appears in

Source Location Source Attribution Voices
PL-Wn Rps 8054 III (Codex Krasiński) 173–174, 195v -
Voice: [no designation]
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Cracovia civitas te civium unitas te cleri pluralitas

Voice: Contratenor
Clef: c3

Voice: Tenor
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Tenor huius Cracovia [text incipit only]
PL-Wn MS lat.F.I.378 27v–29 -
Voice: [no designation]
Voice Text: Cracovia civitas

Bibliography

Budzinska-Bennett, Agnieszka, and Marc Lewon (editors). 2025. Kodeks Krasiński - Krasiński Codex (Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, Rps 8054 III): A Performer's Edition with Essays and a Critical Commentary. 429. Krakow: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (Polish Music Publishing House). 979-0-2740-3900-4. pp. 370-84.

Perz, Miroslaw. 2009. Wokół Mikołaja Radomskiego z figlami błazna Bobika [Concerning Mikołaj Radomski and the pranks of Bobik the Jester]. Muzykolog wobec świadectw źródłowych i dokumentów. Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Profesorowi Piotrowi Poźniakowi w 70. rocznicę urodzin [The Musicologist and Source Documentary Evidence: A Book of Essays in Honour of Professor Piotr Poźniak on his 70th Birthday], Musica Iagellonica.  Krakow. pp. 80.

Perz, Miroslaw (editor). 1963-. Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia.  Warsaw and Graz. pp. (14), 204-211.

Opieński, Henryk, and Stanisław Kętrzyński. 1911. Hymn na cześć Krakowa z XV-go wieku: Mikołaj z Radomia [A fifteenth-century hymn in praise of Krakow: Mikolaj Radomski]. Kwartalnik Muzyczny, 1/1: 5-8. pp. .