A Tenor partbook from a set originally of four volumes; the other surviving volumes from the set are B-Br IV.90 and IV.1274. Copied by two scribes (ff. 1'-16 and ff. 16'-29' respectively). First scribe also wrote ff. l'-16' of Brussels MS IV.90/1274 and most of LonBL 35087; second scribe also wrote ff. 17-30' of Brussels MS IV.90/1274 (KesselsC). Owned in 19th century by Ph.-M. Boisacq, president of Tournai Tribunal de Commerce; donated to Bibliothèque de la Ville shortly before 1860.
| Archive | Bibliothèque de la Ville, Tournai, Belgium (B-Tv) |
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| Shelfmark | 94 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 78 x 110 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 23 compositions, 18 from 13 composers, 5 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown leather stamped with animal figures and inscription 'Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / xpristi librum hunc / recte ligavi'; Louis Bloc, bookbinder, was active in Bruges 1484-1529 (IndS)
Notation
not indicated
Date
Date 1511 found in an initial on f. 21 of TourBV 94
Foliation
Modern foliation, 1-32, on lower left rectos (includes rear flyleaf; ff. 3, 6, 28, and 30 now missing; some folios bear two different numbers)
Decoration
Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style, almost identical to those in TourBV 94; inked calligraphic initials.
Surface
parchment
DIAMM Note
Superius partbook from a set of of four manuscripts. Altus is B-Br IV 1274, Superius is B-Br IV 90. The Bassus partbook is missing.
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 motet, 1 motet-chanson, 14 French secular pieces, 6 Dutch secular pieces = 22
(A. Agricola/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Barbireau/Isaac/Obrecht) -1, (Busnois/Japart/La Rue)-1, (Compère)-3, (Compère/Obrecht) -1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Josquin)-4, (Josquin/Ninot le Petit)-1, (La Rue/Obrecht)-1, (La Rue/Pipelare)-1, (Obrecht)-1, (Ockeghem)-1, anon-5
1 parchment partbook of an original 3 (T-i + 30 + i folios), 78 x 110. BrusBR IV.90 is D book from same set; Contratenor book lost. New pencil foliation, 1-30. Original covers of brown leather stamped with animal figures and inscription "Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / xpristi librum hunc / recte ligavi"; Louis Bloc, bookbinder, was active in Bruges 1484-1529 (IndS). Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote BrusBR IV.90 and most of LonBL 35087 (Rifkin). Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style; inked calligraphic initials.
1511 (date in initial on f. 21). Copied in Bruges (HuysDG). Owned in 19th century by Ph.-M. Boisacq, president of Tournai Tribunal de Commerce; donated to Bibliothèque de la Ville shortly before 1860.
Vol 4
Physical: 1 parchment partbook of an original 4 (T-i + 30 + i folios), 78 x 110. BrusBR IV.90 is D book from same original set; AB books now lost. Copied by two scribes (ff. 1 '-16' and ff. 17-30' respectively). First scribe also wrote ff. l'-16 of BrusBR IV.90 and most of LonBL 35087; second scribe also wrote ff. 16'-29' of BrusBR IV.90 (KesselsC).
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Partbooks illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style
Partbooks · 3 sources
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Kessels, Leon. 1986. De "Chansonnier de Tournai": Bestande uit de Manuscripten Brussel Bibi. Royale IV. 90 en Tournai Bibi. de la Ville 94. Amsterdam. Pages: I-II. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1982. Notes on the Origin of the Parisian Chanson. The Journal of Musicology, 1: 275-326. Pages: 296.
Slim, H Colin. 1981. Instrumental Versions, c. 1515-1554, of a LateFifteenth-Century Flemish Chanson, O Waerde Mont. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, 131-61. Cambridge.
Litterick, Louise. 1980. The Revision of Ockeghem's 'Je n'ay dueil'. Musique naturelle et musique artificielle: In Memoriam Gustav Reese, Le Moyen Français, vol. 5. 29-48. Montreal. Pages: 106, 121ff, passim.
Benthem, Jaap van. 1976. Josquin's Three-part 'Chansons rustiques': A Critique of the Readings in Manuscripts and Prints. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 422ff.
Kellman, Herbert. 1976. Josquin and the Courts of the Netherlands and France: The Evidence of the Sources. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 181-216. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 183.
Litterick, Louise. 1976. The Manuscript Royal 20. A. XVI of the British Library. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 33, 197-8,200.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret. 1969. Fors seulement and the Cantus Firmus Technique of the Fifteenth Century. Essays in Musicology in Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday, 91-126. Pittsburgh. Pages: 115.
Wangermée, Robert. 1968. Flemish Music and Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York. Pages: 141,313.
Huys, Bernard. 1966. De Grégoire le Grand à Stockhausen: Douze siècles de notation musicale. Brussels. Pages: 33-4.
Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,371-2.
Indestege, Luc. 1958. Schmuckformen auf flämischen Einbänden im ausgehenden Mittelalter: Beschriftete Rankenplatten. Gutenberg Jahrbuch, 34: 271-87. Pages: 275.
Meier, Bernhard (editor). 1954-7. Jacobi Barbireau: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 7. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II,ii,[vi].
Closson, Ernest, and Charles van den Borren. 1950. La musique en Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours. Brussels. Pages: 469,473.
Fallows, Paul, and L'Abbé Pierre van Sint Jan. 1950. Catalogue des Manuscrits Conservés a Tournai (Bibliothèques de la Ville et du Séminaire). Catalogue Général des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques de Belgique, vol. 6. Gembloux. Pages: 96-8.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 144ff.
Hocquet, A. 1934. L'album de musique de la Bibliothèque de Tournai. Annales de la Société Royale Historique et Archéologique de Tournai nouv. ser., 19: 83-8.
Borren, Charles van den. 1933-34. Inventaire des manuscrits de musique polyphonique qui se trouvent en Belgique. Acta Musicologica, 5 & 6: V:66-71,120-7,177-83;VI:23-9,65-73,116-21. Pages: VI, 119-21.
Lenaerts, René Bernard. 1933. Het Nederlands Polifonies Lied in de Zestiende Eeuw. Amsterdam. Pages: 12-4,[175-6].
Grange, A de la. 1894. L'album de Musique du XVe Siècle du musée de Tournai. Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, 8: 114-9.
Wilbaux, A. 1860-75. Catalogue de Bibliothèque de la Ville de Tournai.
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