A-KN Cod. 70

Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Klosterneuburg, Austria

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1545-50

Archive Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Klosterneuburg, Austria (A-KN)
Shelfmark Cod. 70
Image Availability The images on this record are linked using IIIF.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 405 x 280 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: KlosA 70
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • Austria
Contents Contains 83 compositions, 48 from 7 composers, 35 are anonymous.
General Description

Choirbook, copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe (ff. 303'-307). Probably copied in Vienna. Purchased in 1551 by Christoph Stari, provost of Augustinian abbey at Klosterneuburg; the abbey may have commissioned the copying.

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Binding

Original leather covers.

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Watermark

resembles Briquet #2110.

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Notation

not indicated

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Date

dates 1546 and 1550 in manuscript

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Foliation

Modern foliation by Hermann Pfeiffer, 1-197; 197a-322.

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Decoration

No initials or decoration

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Surface

paper

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Inventory

Lindsey 1980

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2 Masses, 62 Mass Proper sections (some with Latin/German texts), 1 Te Deum, 6 motets, 1 German sacred piece, 4 sets of responses = 76

Bruck-1, C. Copus-11 + 2?, Ducis-9 + 8?, Finck-1, Isaac-6, Mahu-1, Stoltzer-2, anon-35

323 paper folios, 405 x 280. Modern foliation by Hermann Pfeiffer, 1-197; 197a-322. Blank folios: 26'-29, 76'-77, 102'-107, 148'149, 160'-162, 183'-185, 221'-222, 263'-264, 307'-311. Original leather covers. No index. Copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe (ff. 303'-307). No initials or decoration . Watermark resembles Briquet #2110.

Ca. 1545-50 (dates 1546 and 1550 in manuscript). Probably copied in Vienna. Purchased in 1551 by Christoph Stari, provost of Augustinian abbey at Klosterneuburg; the abbey may have commissioned the copying.

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Haidinger, A. 1983. Katalog der Handschriften des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Klosterneuburg.  Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Pages: I:126-129. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Lindsey, Mack Clay III. 1980. Klosterneuburg, Chorherrenstift, Codices 69 and 70: Two Sixteenth-Century Choirbooks, Their Music, and Its Liturgical Use. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Youens, Laura. 1978. Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49/50. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 608. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Fox, Bertha Mary. 1977. A Liturgical-Répertoriai Study of Renaissance Polyphony in Bártfa Mus. Pr. 6 (a-d), National Széchényi Library, Budapest. University of Illinois, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 157. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Thompson, Glenda Goss. 1975. Benedictus Appenzeller: Maître de la Chapelle to Mary of Hungary and Chansonnier. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 93, 546-50. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Han, Kuo-Huang. 1974. The Use of the Marian Antiphons in Renaissance Motets. Northwestern University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 172-3. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Lothar. 1974. Stoltzeriana. Die Musikforschung, 27: 18-36. Pages: 31. Notes: mention of MS.

Kindermann, Jürgen. 1974. Verzeichnis von Konkordanzen zu Kompositionen aus den Annaberger Chorbüchern Ms. 1126 and Ms. 1248. Die Musikforschung, 27: 86-92. Pages: [incorrectly referred to as MS 69]. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Noblitt, Thomas L. 1973. Manuscript Mus. l/D/505 of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden (olim Annaberg, Bibliothek der St. Annenkirche, Ms. 1248). Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 30: 275-310. Pages: 289. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Steude, Wolfram. 1972. Untersuchungen zu Herkunft, Verbreitung und spezifischem Inhalt mitteldeutscher Musikhandschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts. University of Rostock, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 29-31,93. Notes: mention of MS.

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 140. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); incipits (partial).

Osthoff, Helmuth. 1963. Das Te Deum des Arnold von Brück. Festschrift Friedrich Blume zum 70. Geburtstag, 252-7. Kassel. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Albrecht, Hans. 1958-61. Caspar Copus, ein Fast Unbekannter Deutscher Komponist des 16. Jahrhunderts. Miscelânea en Homenaje a Monsenor Higinio Angles 1-9,  Barcelona. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Federhofer, Hellmut (editor). 1954-. Musik Alter Meister.  Graz. Pages: XI. Notes: transcription (partial).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: VII,1247. Notes: contents list (partial).

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: LVII.xv.99ff. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).

Pfeiffer, Hermanno, and Bertholdo Cernik. 1922-31. Catalogus Codicum Manu Scriptorum, qui in Bibliotheca Canonicorum Regularium S. Augustini Claustroneoburgi Asservantur.  Vienna. Pages: I,37-9. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: XCIX,63-70,109-16. Notes: transcription (partial).

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