Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote JenaU 35 and portions of JenaU 33. Copied for the All Saints Church in Wittenberg. See the entry for JenaU 30 for further information concerning this manuscript and its subsequent history.
| Archive | Universitätsbibliothek, Jena, Germany (D-Ju) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 34 |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 475 x 310 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 171 compositions, 171 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of grey-brown tooled leather over boards
Liminary Note
Inscription on front cover: "Chorus Prepos(itus)"
Notation
All psalms copied in Gothic chant; tenor parts for most other pieces also copied in chant, with remaining voices in white mensural
Foliation
273
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-273, includes endpapers, [DIAMM foliation excludes endpapers, therefore 3 less than pencil foliation]
Decoration
No initials or decoration
Surface
Paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Mass Proper cycle, 8 Magnificats, 117 psalms (some set to the same music), 35 hymns, 31 motets = 192 (the psalms, hymns, and motets are arranged in cycles by feast)
Anonymous (EngelbPJ suggests, on stylistic grounds, that many of the psalm settings may be by Rener)
273 paper folios, 475 x 310. No foliation. Original covers of gray-brown tooled leather over boards. Chant notation in the tenor, white mensural notation in the other voices for all pieces except the psalms, which are in white mensural notation only. Several scribes; one also appears in JenaU 35. No ornamentation or initials. Inscription on front cover: "Chorus Prepos(itus)."
1500-20 (MGG). Copied for the All Saints Church in Wittenberg. See the entry for JenaU 30 for further information concerning this manuscript and its subsequent history.
Vol 4
Contents: 3 Mass Proper sections, 8 Magnificats, 112 psalms (some set to same music), 11 hymns, 31 motets = 165
Physical: 273 paper folios, 475 x 310. Modern pencil foliation, 1-273. Original covers of gray-brown tooled leather over boards. No index. All psalms copied in Gothic chant notation; tenor parts for most other pieces also copied in chant notation, with remaining voices in white mensural notation. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote JenaU 35 and portions of JenaU 33. No initials or decoration. Inscription on front cover: "Chorus Prepos[itus]."
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Heidrich, Jürgen. 1996. Jena: Musikhandschriften. Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Sachteil, fourth edition. columns 1451-1455. Kassel. Pages: columns 1453-1454.
Duffy, Kathryn Ann P. 1995. The Jena Choirbooks: Music and Liturgy at the Castle Church in Wittenberg under Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. University of Chicago, Ph.D. diss., 5 vols.
Heidrich, Jürgen. 1993. Die deutschen Chorbücher aus der Hofkapelle Friedrich des Weisen. Sammlung Musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen, vol. 84. Baden-Baden. Pages: 326ff.
Bragard, Murray C. 1978. The Falsobordone: A Study in Renaissance and Baroque Music. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 34. American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 55-6,66-7,160. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Cavanaugh, Philip Stephen. 1972. A Liturgico-Musical Study of German Polyphonic Mass Propers, 1490-1520. University of Pittsburgh, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.
Gerken, Robert E. 1969. The Polyphonic Cycles of the Proper of the Mass in the Trent Codex 88 and Jena Choirbooks 30 and 35. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 104-5.
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 139.
Parker, Robert LeRoy (editor). 1964-. Collected Works of Adam Rener. Brooklyn. Pages: I,xiii-xiv, passim.
Engelbrecht, Christiane. 1958. Die Psalmsätze des Jenaer Chorbuches 34. International Musicological Society, 7th Congress Report (Cologne, 1958),
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: VI, 1874-5.
Roediger, Karl Erich. 1935. Die geistlichen Musikhandschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Jena. 2 vols. Jena: Frommannsche Buchhandlung. Pages: i, 53-4; 113-48.
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Richard Yates
Monday, 28 July, 2025
Corrected foliation for the pices on260v-264: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino is on 260v-262 (not 261), and and the Alleluia o maria on 262v (not 261v)-264.
Richard Yates
Monday, 28 July, 2025
nventory listings for "[Adorna thalamum tuum] Et suscipe regem" and "[Ecce completa sunt] Omnia quae dicta sunt" are reversed, that is "Et suscipe" comes first on pages 54v-55, and "Omnia quae" is next on 55v-56. Listing fixed.
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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