I-VEaf 218 [Discantus 1]

Biblioteca Dell'Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1544 (Brauner)

Archive Biblioteca Dell'Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy (I-VEaf)
Shelfmark 218 [Discantus 1]
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Format landscape
Measurements 163 x 230-6 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-VEaf 218
  • CCM: VerA 218
  • olim (Former shelfmark): 214
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 40 compositions, 34 from 20 composers, 6 are anonymous.
General Description

A Discantus I partbook from a set of eight volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Probably copied in Padua (BökE).

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Binding

Original covers of parchment, inscribed with voice designations; leather ties.

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Watermark

(1) crossed arrows surmounted by six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (2) generally resembles Briquet #533-4; (3) anchor in circle surmounted by ball and six-pointed star (not in Briquet).

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Notation

black void mensural notation

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Ruling

Staff height 12mm

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Foliation

Other numberings: Original ink numbering of pieces, 1-5 + 1-19 (some pieces unnumbered)

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Foliation

New pencil foliation in each book

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Decoration

Some inked calligraphic initials.

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Index

Original index of first six pieces appears at beginning of each book; Discantus II book also has second index (f. 2') listing 17 motets of second series, Compline service by Santacroce ('Conpieta de sancta Î'), and last Mass

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

RISM B IV/5:

XVIe s. 8 livres: Cantus 1, Altus 2 et Bassus 1, 51 ff. chacun; Cantus 2 et Tenor 2, 53ff. chacun; Altus 1, 35ff.; Tenor 1, 49ff.; Bassus 2 55ff. Papier, 163x236 mm. Foliotation moderne. Sont blancs: Cantus 1, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 9 à 16v, 29 à 32v, 35 à 44v, 47v à 51v; Cantus 2, les ff. 1, 2, 9 à 16v, 28 à 32v, 36v à 46v, 49v à 53v; Altus 1, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 14 à 16v, 20 à 28v, 31v à 35v; Altus 2, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 9v à 16v, 28 à 32v, 36v à 44v, 48 à 51v; Tenor 1, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 8v à 16v, 28 à 32v, 36 à 43v, 46v à 49v; Tenor 2, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 9 à 16v, 28v à 32v, 36v à 46v, 50 à 53v; Bassus 1, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 9v à 16v, 28v à 32v, 36 à 44v, 47v à 51v; Bassus 2, les ff. 1, 2r et v, 9 à 16v, 28 à 32v, 36v à 48v, 52 à 55v. Notation mesurée blanche. 6 portées par p. Au f. 1 de tous les vol., table ancienne des Motteti a 7 (nos 2 à 6). Au f. 2v du Cantus 2, table ancienne des Motetti & Messe a 8 avec les noms d'auteurs (nos 7 à 23 et 26 à 31). Le Bassus 1 porte les noms d'auteurs en tête des pièces, pas toujours en accord avec ceux donnés à la table du Cantus 2. Reliures anciennes de parchemin, liens de cuir.

Casimiri, et après lui d'Alessi, datent le ms. du premier quart du XVIe s., mais N. Böker Heil a relevé dans les motets nos 3 et 6 des allusions évidentes au pape Clément VII, ce qui permet de situer la copie plus exactement entre 1523 et 1534. Le filigrane (ancre à 2 branches dans un cercle surmonté d'une étoile à 6 pointes) se retrouve sur des papiers employés dans le nord de l'Italie dans la 1ère décennie du XVIe s. On distingue 3 groupes d'oeuvres dans le ms.:

I. 1 messe et 5 motets à 7vx.

II. 19 motets à 8, 9 et l0vx. -

III. 5 psaumes pour les Complies, de Santacroce, et messe de Ruffini, en style de coro spezzato. Pour Turrini, il s'agirait le plus souvent pour les groupes I et II, de motets transformés de 7 à l0vx. par des musiciens locaux à partir de motets franco-flamands à 4vx. Il est possible que Nicolo Olivetto, nommé maître de chapelle à la cathédrale de Vérone en 1538, venant de Trévise où il avait succédé à Francesco Santacroce (Francesco Patavino), ait apporté avec lui le ms. 218 où l'on trouve justement des oeuvres de Santacroce dans lesquelles celui-ci emploie le procédé à 2 choeurs (coro spezzato) alors encore très nouveau (n°5 26 à 30).

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2 Masses, 4 psalms, 1 hymn, 29 motets = 36

Bartolucci d'Assisi [Ruffinus]-1, Carlet-1, Conseil-1, Gombert-1, Gombert/(Josquin)-1, Gombert/Mouton/(Verdelot)-1, Gombert/ Sermisy [Claudin]-1, Hesdin-1, Jaquet of Mantua [Jachet}(Jaco-tin)-1, Josquin-3, Lhéritier-1, Lupus/Mouton-1, Moulu-1, Mouton-2, Passetto-1, Santacroce-10, Silva-1, Verdelot-2, Verdelot/(Phinot/Richafort)-1, Wilder-1, anon-3

8 paper partbooks (Dl-51 folios, D2-53, Al-35, A2-51, Tl-49, T2-53, Bl-51, B2-55), 165x230-6. New pencil foliation in each book. Original ink numbering of pieces, 1-5 + 1-19 (some pieces unnumbered). Original covers of parchment,

inscribed with voice designations; leather ties. Original index of first six pieces appears at beginning of each book; D2 book also has second index (f. 2') listing 17 motets of second series, Compline service by Santacroce ("Conpieta de sancta Î"), and last Mass. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 12. Some inked calligraphic initials. Watermarks: (1) crossed arrows surmounted by six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (2) generally resembles Briquet #533-4; (3) anchor in circle surmounted by ball and six-pointed star (not in Briquet).

Ca. 1536 (BökE). Probably copied in Padua (BökE).

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Brauner, Mitchell Paul. 1987. The Manuscript, Verona, Accademia Filarmonica, MS 218 and its Political Motets. Studi Musicali, XVI: 3-12. Notes: (notes that the manuscript was completed and paid for by the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona in 1544).

Paganuzzi, Enrico, C Bologna, and L; Cambié, G M; Conati, M Rognini. 1976. La musica a Verona.  Verona. Pages: 120 et 152 n. 21.

Ravizza, Victor. 1972. Frühe Doppelchörigkeit in Bergamo. Die Musikforschung, 25: 127-42.

Böker-Heil, Norbert. 1969. Zu einem Frühvenezianischen Motettenrepertoire. Helmuth Osthoff zu Seinem Siebzigsten Geburtstag,  Tutzing.

Böker-Heil, Norbert. 1967. Die Motetten von Philippe Verdelot.  Frankfurt am Main. Pages: 35ff et 411.

d'Alessi, Giovanni. 1954. La Cappella musicale del Duomo di Treviso.  Vedelago (Treviso). Pages: 75f et 86ff.

d'Alessi, Giovanni. 1952. Precursors of Adriano Willaert in the practice of "coro spezzato". Journal of the American Musicological Society, 5: 187ff. Pages: 190.

[No Author] 1947-. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. The American Institute of Musicology. 110 vols. A-R Editions, Inc. Pages: 48, I, p. XLVI.

Casimiri, Raffaele. 1943. II coro "battente" e "spezzato" fu una novità di Adriano Willaert? Bollettino Ceciliáno, 38: .

Turrini, Giuseppe. 1935-6; Reprinted: Bologna, 1983. Catalogo delle opere musicali: Città di Verona, Biblioteca della Soc. Accademia Filarmonica di Verona.  Parma. Pages: 169 et 198ff.

[No Author] 1911-. Città di Firenze, Biblioteca del R. Istituto musicale (del R. Conservatorio de Musica), 1911 - Città di Modena, R. Biblioteca Estense. 1916 - Città di Parma, [Archivio di Stato e Ba Palatina], 1911 - Città di Torino, R. Biblioteca Nazionale, 1928 - Città di Venezia, R. Biblioteca di S. Marco, 1941 - Città di Verona, Biblioteca della Società Accademia Filarmonica, Fondo musicale antico, 1935-36. Catalogo generale delle opere musicali... fino ai primi decenni del secolo XIX, esistenti nelle biblioteche e negli archivi pubblici e privati d'Italia.  Parma: Associazione dei musicologi italiani. Pages: 45.

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Benjamin Ory

Monday, 28 July, 2025

Added Mitchell Brauner's "The Manuscript, Verona, Accademia Filarmonica, MS 218 and its Political Motets”, Studi Musicali, XVI (1987), pp. 3-12, to bibliography; and updated MS date to reflect Brauner's observation that the manuscript was completed and paid for by the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona in 1544.

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

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

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description