The main scribe was probably Italian; scribal concordance with last two pieces in FlorBN Magi. 176 (RifSC). Texts mostly limited to incipits. Copied in Florence (AtlCM). In the mid-16th century, the manuscript belonged to a Florentine, Andrea Sardelli (PlamSC).
| Archive | Biblioteca Riccardiana, Florence, Italy (I-Fr) |
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| Shelfmark | Ms. 2356 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 230 x 172 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 75 compositions, 43 from 24 composers, 32 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Ten folios of the original manuscript are missing.
Binding
Modern parchment covers
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Modern stamped foliation and two systems of old foliation.
Decoration
No initials, miniatures, or decoration of any kind; red ink is sometimes used in voice designations, foliation, and, occasionally, entire pieces.
Index
Original index on ff. l'-2'
Surface
parchment
RISM Description
RISM [note: this text has been scanned to OCR from RISM volumes, and has not yet been proof-corrected]
XVe s. 100ff. Parchemin, 230 x 172 mm. Deux foliotations anciennes défectueuses: en eh. arabes en haut des ff. et en ch. romains jusqu'à 73 dans la marge supérieure. Foliotation moderne imprimée au bas droit des ff. (1a seule employée ici). 10ff. mq. entre les ff. 14 et 15 (XI à XX de la fol. ancienne). Les ff. 12v, 13, 27v, 28, 32v, 33, 35v, 36, 37v, 38, 40v, 41, 42v à 44, 58v à 60, 62v, 63, 84v, 85, 88v, 89 sont blancs. Aux ff. 92v à 99, paroles sans suite, musique raturée, noms . . . &c. Au f. 97, distiques de fantaisie: Ego dormio cor meum vigilat e chi non ha danari/ La fa male . . . Au f. 100v, poème italien: Tu say ben che in pene amare . . . Notation mesurée blanche. 7 portées par p. Aux ff. lv-2v, table alphabétique du ms. renvoyant à la foliotation en ch. romains et mentionnant aussi les pièces qui mq. entre les ff. 14 et 15.
Ce ms. figure déjà dans l'Inventario ms. de la Biblioteca Riccardiana établi en 1810 (p. 48). Dès 1550, il était en la possession du florentin Andrea Sardelli qui le 19 juin, le fait figurer dans l'inventaire de sa bibliothèque au f. 4v: «Un chanzoniere di carta pechoara francese coperto d'asse.» D'autre part, une note au f. 94 (peut-être de la main de l'aïeul Zanobi Sardelli dont on signale la mort le 5 septembre 1547 au f. 3v.) où figure une très courte pièce à 4vx. Habemus ad dominum, précise que «sir Ieronimo di Monopoli me fecit 1541 in Burgo Sancti Laurencii e sor Andrea Sardelli la scricto in quisto libro.» Quoiqu'il en soit, le répertoire se situe dans la 2e moitié du XVe. s. avec préférence donnée à Caron (7), Morton (6), Dufay (5), Hayne (4) et Ockeghem (2), Agricola (2) représen-tant la «jeune» génération. Bien que la majorité des chansons soient françaises (53), leur graphie inexacte révèle un copiste, peut-être italien, qui, ignorant de la langue française, s'en tient le plus souvent au seul incipit des paroles.
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7 motets, 55 French secular pieces, 4 Italian secular pieces, 3 Spanish secular pieces, 3 textless pieces = 72 (8 additional pieces listed in the index are now missing from the manuscript)
(A. Agricola)-3, (Bedingham)-1, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Binchois/Dufay)-1, (Binchois/Frye)-1, (Busnois/Compère/Mureau)-1, (Caron)-5, (Caron/Morton)-1, (Dufay)-2, (Fresneau/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-3, (Josquin)-1, (Molinet)-1,(Morton)-4, (Moxica)-1, (Ockeghem)-2, (Rubinus)-1, (Touront)-1, (Wreede)-1, anon-41.
Of the eight pieces listed in the index which are now missing from the manuscript, PlamSC identifies the following composers: (Barbingant/Fedé)-1, (Busnois)-1, (Dufay)-1, (Giliardi [Arnolfo])-1, (Symonet le Breton)-1, anon-3. The "F. Cornelius . . . ianus(?)" on f. 44' is probably not a composer attribution (PlamSC).
100 parchment folios, 230 x 172. Ten folios of the original manuscript are missing. Modern stamped foliation and two systems of old foliation. Modern parchment covers. Original index on ff. l'-2'. The scribe was probably Italian; scribal concordance with last two pieces in FlorBN Magi. 176 (RifSC). No initials, miniatures, or decoration of any kind; red ink is sometimes used in voice designations, foliation, and, occasionally, entire pieces. Texts mostly limited to incipits.
Ca. 1480-5 (AtlCM); late 15th century, with some additions from the 1540's (PlamSC). Copied in Florence (AtlCM). In the mid-16th century, the manuscript belonged to a Florentine, Andrea Sardelli (PlamSC).
Vol 4
Contents: 7 motets, 53 French secular pieces, 4 Italian secular pieces, 2 Spanish secular pieces, 1 macaronic secular piece, 1 piece with incipit "Tysis deple," 3 textless pieces =71 + 1 duplicate = 72*
*Eight additional pieces listed in index now missing due to lost folios.
Composers: Change "(A.Agricola)-3" to "(A.Agricola)-2, (A. Agricola/ Ghiselin)-1"; add "(Busnois/ Ockeghem)-1"; change "(Morton)-4" to "(Morton)-5"; change "(Ockeghem)-2" to "(Ockeghem)-1"; add "(Plummer?)-1"; delete "(Rubinus)-1"; change "(Wreede)-1" to "(Enrique/Wreede)-1"; "anon-41" to "anon-38."
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Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii,xxvii,xxix,xxxii,xxxvi,5-6,62-6,70-85, 89-92,95-101. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Corrected error in the inventory, ff.33-34v. This is not the setting of "O pulcherrima mulierum qualis est dilectus" by Lantins, but rather the setting of "O pulcherrima mulierum surge propera" elsewhere identified in DIAMM as by "Plummer, John (ca.1410-ca.1484) (?)."
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
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