I-Mc Santa Barbara 12 [III. 42]

Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milano (Milan), Italy

fragment: 16th century

Archive Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Milano (Milan), Italy (I-Mc)
Shelfmark Santa Barbara 12 [III. 42]
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Measurements 183 x 249 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: MilC 12
  • olim (Former shelfmark): BarblSB #186
Inventory This MS has not yet been inventoried by DIAMM. If you would like to submit an inventory, please send it to diamm@music.ox.ac.uk
Relationships
Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 1 uninventoried works or miscellaneous sections.
General Description

First three folios copied by a single scribe; fourth leaf copied by a different hand. Copied in Mantua. Part of large collection of printed and manuscript music assembled and used by Gonzaga ducal chapel during 16th century; eventually housed in Church of Santa Barbara, completed in 1565.

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Binding

preserved unbound in modern paper wrapper as part of miscellaneous collection of manuscript music (29 items, numbered III. 29-57; III. 42, described here, is only item within scope of this catalogue).

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Notation

not indicated

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Foliation

No foliation or pagination

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Decoration

Three inked initials on verso of fourth leaf; no other decoration.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Magnificat (incomplete), 3 Magnificat fragments = 4

Jaquet of Mantua? ["Jacchetti," later crossed out]-1 + 2 fragments, anon-1 fragment

4 paper folios, 183 x 249, preserved unbound in modern paper wrapper as part of miscellaneous collection of manuscript music (29 items, numbered III. 29-57; III. 42, described here, is only item within scope of this catalogue). No foliation or pagination. First three folios copied by a single scribe; fourth leaf copied by a different hand. Three inked initials on verso of fourth leaf; no other decoration.

Last third of 16th century? Copied in Mantua. Part of large collection of printed and manuscript music assembled and used by Gonzaga ducal chapel during 16th century; eventually housed in Church of Santa Barbara, completed in 1565. Collection transferred to Conservatory of Music in Milan in 1851. Temporarily evacuated during World War II; subsequently placed in rebuilt Conservatory library building.

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Known composers

Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages Item title Attribution in Source
Works by
Mantua, Jacquet de (1483–1559) (?)
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‡ denotes primary source study

Nugent, George Edward. 1973. The Jacquet Motets and Their Authors. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,358 [erroneously referred to as MS 49].

Barblan, Guglielmo. 1972. Conservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" - Milano: Catalogo della Biblioteca. Fondi speciali 1: Musiche della Cappella di S. Barbara in Mantova. Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana.  Florence. Pages: 211.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description