Copied by a single scribe, whose hand also appears in JenaU 30, 31, 32, and 33. Copied in Torgau or Wittenberg, probably for use at All Saints' Church in Wittenberg (commonly known as the 'Schlosskirche', or 'castle chapel'). Possibly owned in Weimar by Johann Friedrich I, deposed Elector of Saxony.
D-WRhk A (Weimar A)
Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchengemeinde, Weimar, Germany
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1505
| Archive | Bibliothek der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirchengemeinde, Weimar, Germany (D-WRhk) |
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| Shelfmark | A (Weimar A) |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 423 x 290 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 104 compositions, 36 from 4 composers, 68 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of tooled leather over wooden boards; remnants of metal clasps.
Notation
not indicated
Date
Ca. 1505 (PätLG)
Ruling
Staff height 18
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-209 (ff. 1, 106-113, 202-208 now missing).
Decoration
Inked calligraphic initials, some with floral tracery. Pencil drawing on page 79v to the cantus firmus of no. 626: monk's arm in arm with a girl; smaller drawings fol. 100v: (plant?); fol. 102v (strawberry); Fol. 104v: (dandelion); Fol. 116v: (owl); Fol. 121v: (Löwenzahn); Fol. 128v: (flower?); Fol. 131v: (strawberry).
Surface
Paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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4 Masses, 2 Kyries (1 fragmentary), 106 Mass Proper sections (arranged in 42 cycles according to liturgical calendar; some cycles now incomplete), 1 set of responses (incomplete) = 113
(Isaac)-24 + 2?, (Rener)-8, anon-79
193 paper folios, 423 x 290. Modern pencil foliation, 1-209 (ff. 1, 106-113, 202-208 now missing). Original covers of tooled leather over wooden boards; remnants of metal clasps. No index. Copied by a single scribe, whose hand also appears in JenaU 30, 31, 32, and 33. Staff height 18. Inked calligraphic initials, some with floral tracery.
Ca. 1505 (PätLG). Copied in Torgau or Wittenberg, probably for use at All Saints Church in Wittenberg. Possibly owned in Weimar by Johann Friedrich I, deposed Elector of Saxony. Transferred from Weimar to Jena Universitätsbibliothek ca. 1923, but subsequently returned to Weimar.
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Roediger, Karl Erich. 1935. Die geistlichen Musikhandschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Jena. 2 vols. Jena: Frommannsche Buchhandlung. Pages: i, 31, 54; 179-207.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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