Recovered from Plantin bindings. Fragments apparently remnants of two or more different manuscripts. The source also includes an unfoliated leaf containing two settings of the Salve regina; English. Concordances (1) I-Fn Magl.XIX 112 bis 37v-38 and I-TRbc 90 305v-307 (nos 1025-6); (2) I-TRbc 90 324v-326v (no. 1038). Copied in Low Countries?
B-Amp MS M6
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Bibliotheek, Antwerp, Belgium
fragments: Second half of 15th century
| Archive | Museum Plantin-Moretus, Bibliotheek, Antwerp, Belgium (B-Amp) |
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| Shelfmark | MS M6 |
| Surface | Paper |
| Measurements | ca. 15 x 300-10; 300 x 220 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 9 compositions, 9 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some music obliterated by trimming, but most remaining music legible.
Watermark
No watermarks visible.
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
Staff height ca. 11-12 on bifolios, 20 on other folios.
Foliation
2 bifolia and 3 folios
Foliation
No original foliation remains.
Decoration
A few small inked initials.
Surface
Paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Agnus, 1 Mass Proper section, 9 motets, 1 textless piece = 12 (all fragmentary)
(Ockeghem)-1, anon-11
2 fragmentary paper bifolios, ca. 215 x 300-10, and 3 fragmentary paper folios, ca. 300 x 220, recovered from Plantin bindings. Fragments apparently remnants of two or more different manuscripts. Some music obliterated by trimming, but most remaining music legible. No original foliation remains.
Copied by four scribes. Staff height ca. 11-12 on bifolios, 20 on other folios.
A few small inked initials. No watermarks visible.
Second half of 15th century. Copied in Low Countries?
No literature. We thank Jaap van Benthem, who discovered AntP M6, AntP M18.13/1, AntP M18.13/2, AntP M18.13/3, and AntP R43.13, for bringing these sources to our attention. We also thank Kristine K. Forney for information on AntP M6, of which she is preparing a study.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Kiel, Jacobijn. 1997. The Antwerp Fragments M6. Music Fragments and Manuscripts in the Low Countries, 45-51. Leuven: Peer.
Schreurs, Eugeen. 1995. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages-Renaissance). Leuven.
Benthem, Jaap van. 1994. The Alamire Fragments of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. Musicology and Archival Research, Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique. 543-57. Bruxelles: Archives Générales du Royaume.
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Strohm, Reinhard. 1993. The Rise of European Music 1380-1500. Cambridge.
Forney, Kristine K. 1987. Music, ritual and patronage at the Church of Our Lady, Antwerp. Early Music History, 7: 1-58.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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