Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote WeimB B, most of BerlPS 40013, most of Tenor book of NurGN 83795, and earliest layer of BerlPS 40043. Copied in Torgau, for use at Schlosskirche; dedication to Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony. his choirbook has a long and complicated history of ownership, thoroughly discussed in BlankeSG. Walter took the manuscript to Jena c. 1553, but shortly thereafter it was brought back to Weimar and placed in the library of the deposed Elector of Saxony, Johann Friedrich I. When Johann Friedrich died (1554), his son Johann Friedrich II took the manuscript to his residence (Burg Grimmenstein) at Gotha. As a result of political reverses, Johann Friedrich II was also deposed and forced to relinquish his possessions in 1567; the manuscript was then taken back to Weimar, but was soon moved again to Jena. Johann Casimir, son of Johann Friedrich II, recovered the dukedom in 1586; in 1590 he obtained possession of his father's former library, and moved it from Jena to his own residence at Coburg. The manuscript remained in the ducal library at Coburg until 1699, when a later duke bequeathed it to the Gymnasium Casimiranum in Coburg. In 1713, the rector of the Gymnasium, Ernst Salomon Cyprianus, accepted a new position as director of the Herzogliche Bibliothek (later the Landesbibliothek) in Gotha. Shortly thereafter, Cyprianus acquired the manuscript for the Gotha library from the Coburg Gymnasium. In 1945/6, the manuscript was transported by the Soviet Army to Leningrad, along with other books from the Landesbibliothek; these volumes were returned to Gotha in 1956.
D-GOsfg Chart. A. 98 (Gothaer Chorbuch)
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, Bibliothek, Gotha, Germany
choirbook: 1545
| Archive | Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, Bibliothek, Gotha, Germany (D-GOsfg) |
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| Shelfmark | Chart. A. 98 (Gothaer Chorbuch) |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 410 x 270 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 164 compositions from 24 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Rebound in modern covers in 1956; original spine retained.
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Original ink foliation, 1-341, excludes front flyleaves ('75-77' omitted).
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Index
Original index on second and third flyleaves at front.
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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2 Masses, 1 Kyrie-Gloria pair, 1 Kyrie, 9 Mass Proper sections, 2 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 8 hymns, 3 Passions, 47 motets (some with partly German texts), 1 set of responses, 40 German sacred pieces (including some hymn translations) = 115
(Crecquillon)-1, (Finck)-1, (Hellinck)-1, (Heugel/Jhan of Ferrara/ Josquin)-1, (Josquin)-6, (Josquin/Verdelot)-1, (La Rue)-1, (Mouton)-1, (Obrecht/Longaval/Venture)-1, (Paminger)-1, (Rener)-1, Roselli-1, Senfl-5, (Walter)-78 or more, anonymous
341 paper folios, 410 x 270. Original foliation. Only the spine of the original covers was retained when the manuscript was rebound and restored in 1956. Two pages of an original index remain. Scribal concordances with BerlPS 40013, BerlPS 40043, and WeimB B. Title page dedication from Walter to Johann Friedrich, Elector of Saxony, dated July 1545. The manuscript is related to BerlPS 40013, BerlPS 40043, and NurGN 83795.
1545 (date in manuscript). Copied under Walter's direction for the Torgau Schlosskirche. This choirbook has a long and complicated history of ownership, thoroughly discussed in BlankeSG. Walter took the manuscript to Jena ca. 1553, but shortly thereafter it was brought back to Weimar and placed in the library of the deposed Elector of Saxony, Johann Friedrich I. When Johann Friedrich died (1554), his son Johann Friedrich II took the manuscript to his residence (Burg Grimmenstein) at Gotha. As a result of political reverses, Johann Friedrich II was also deposed and forced to relinquish his possessions in 1567; the manuscript was then taken back to Weimar, but was soon moved again to Jena. Johann Casimir, son of Johann Friedrich II, recovered the dukedom in 1586; in 1590 he obtained possession of his father's former library, and moved it from Jena to his own residence at Coburg. The manuscript remained in the ducal library at Coburg until 1699, when a later duke bequeathed it to the Gymnasium Casimiranum in Coburg. In 1713, the rector of the Gymnasium, Ernst Salomon Cyprianus, accepted a new position as director of the Herzogliche Bibliothek (later the Landesbibliothek) in Gotha. Shortly thereafter, Cyprianus acquired the manuscript for the Gotha library from the Coburg Gymnasium. In 1945/6, the manuscript was transported by the Soviet Army to Leningrad, along with other books from the Landesbibliothek; these volumes were returned to Gotha in 1956.
Vol 4
2 Masses, 1 Kyrie-Gloria pair, 1 Kyrie, 7 Mass Proper sections, 2 Mag-nificats, 1 Te Deum, 1 canticle, 7 office hymns, 1 processional hymn, 3 Passions (2 in German), 45 motets, 1 set of responses, 3 Latin/German sacred pieces, 40 German sacred pieces = 115
(Appenzeller/Josquin/Vinders)-1, (Crecquillon)-1, (Figulus/Walter)-1, (Finck)-1, (M. Forestier/Josquin)-1, (Hellinck/Senfl/Ver-delot)-1, (Heugel/Jhan of Ferrara/Josquin)-1, (Josquin)-5, (Josquin/ La Rue)-1, (Josquin/Verdelot)-1, (Longaval/Obrecht/Venture)-1, (Mahu/Walter)-1, (Mouton)-1, (Paminger)-1, (Rener)-1, (Richa-fort/Verdelot)-1, Roselli-1, Senfl-4, Senfl/(Josquin)-1, (Verdelot/ Walter)-1, (Walter)-73 + 15?
iii + 338 paper folios, 410 x 270. Original ink foliation, 1-341, excludes front flyleaves ("75-77" omitted). Rebound in modern covers in 1956; original spine retained. Original index on second and third flyleaves at front. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote WeimB B, most of BerlPS 40013, most of T book of NurGN 83795, and earliest layer of BerlPS 40043. No initials or decoration.
1545 (dated title page). Copied in Torgau, for use at Schlosskirche; dedication to Johann Friedrich I, Elector of Saxony. See entry in Vol. I for history of subsequent ownership.
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Cummings, Anthony M. 1983. A Florentine Sacred Repertory from the Medici Restoration (Manuscript II. I. 232 [Olim Magi. XIX. 58; Gaddi 1113] of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence): Bibliography and History. Acta Musicologica, 55: 267-332. Pages: 318-9,321-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1981. Textual Criticism of Selected Works Published by Petrucci. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 201-42. Munich. Pages: 234. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1981. A Reconstruction of Ms. Thomaskirche 51 of the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (olim III, A. a. 22-23). Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 31: 16-72. Pages: 46-7,55, 62-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Lewis, Mary Stuart. 1979. Antonio Gardane and His Publications of Sacred Music, 1538-55. Brandeis University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 349-51, 799. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Youens, Laura. 1978. Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49/50. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 343-4, 669,675,710,713,738-9,752-3,775,793-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1976. Accidentals and Ornamentation in Sixteenth-Century Intabulations of Josquin's Motets. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference 21-25 June 1971, London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 516. Notes: concordances (partial).
Kirsch, Winfried. 1976. Josquin's Motets in the German Tradition. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 261-78. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 262, 271. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Blackenburg, Walter. 1972. Die verschlungenen Schicksalswege des Codex Gothanus Chart. A. 98. Quellenstudien zur Musik: Wolfgang Schmieder zum 70. Geburtstag, Frankfurt, London, and New York . Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Drake, George Warren James. 1972. The first printed book of motets, Petrucci's Motteti A numero trentatre (Venice 1502) and Motetti de Passione De cruce De sacramento De beata virgine et huius modi B (Venice 1503): A critical study and complete edition. University of Illinois, Ph.D. Dissertation. Pages: 188. Notes: mention of MS.
Windh, John Ernfrid. 1971. Early Lutheran Masses. University of Illinois, Unpublished D.M.A. thesis. Pages: 70ff. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Lowinsky, Edward E (editor). 1968. The Medici Codex of 1518: A Choirbook of Motets Dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. III-V. Chicago. Pages: III,126. Notes: concordances (partial).
Böker-Heil, Norbert. 1967. Die Motetten von Philippe Verdelot. Frankfurt am Main. Pages: 312-6,320-l. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 137. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Parker, Robert LeRoy (editor). 1964-. Collected Works of Adam Rener. Brooklyn. Pages: I,xiv,xxiv. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Stalmann, Joachim. 1964. Johann Walters Versuch einer Reform des gregorianischen Chorals. Festschrift Walter Gerstenberg zum 60. Geburtstag, 166-75. Wolfenbüttel and Zürich. Notes: mention of MS.
Lowinsky, Edward E. 1957. The Medici Codex: A Document of Music, Art, and Politics in the Renaissance. Annales Musicologiques, 5: 61-178. Pages: 125. Notes: concordances (partial).
Schröder, Otto (editor). 1953-70. Johann Walter: Sämtliche Werke. Kassel and Basel. Pages: I, [xviii-xix]; III, 84; VI,188ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gerhardt, Carl. 1949. Die Torgauer Walter-Handschriften: Eine Studie zur Quellenkunde der Musikgeschichte der deutschen Reformationszeit. Kassel and Basel. Pages: 29-37, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); discussion.
Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik. Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: V,111,117; XIII,115,118-20; XXV,78, 83,90. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Gurlitt, Wilibald. 1933. Johannes Walter und die Musik der Reformationszeit. Lutherjahrbuch, 15: 1-112. Pages: 54,105. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten. Amsterdam. Pages: I,vi,xiii; Vll.vii-xi; XII,xxiii-xxvii; XIII,xxxiv-xxxv. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1908-21. Reprint: Farnborough, England, 1968. Werken van Jacob Obrecht. Leipzig and Amsterdam,. Pages: XXVII, [v-viii]. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Kade, Otto. 1893 R 1971. Die Altere Passionskomposition bis zum Jahre 1631. Gütersloh: (1893) New York: (1971 reprint). Pages: 161, 178. Notes: mention of MS.
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