CZ-Pnm MS XII A 23

Národní muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic

chant book with added polyphony: 1527

Archive Národní muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic (CZ-Pnm)
Shelfmark MS XII A 23
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 590 x 390 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: CS-Pnm XII A 23
  • CCM: PragNM XII A 23
Notations
  • black full mensural
Copyists
External Links
Provenance
  • Czech Republic
Contents 3 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Main corpus copied by Paulus Melnicensis (RISM). Copied in Pilsen (RISM).

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Binding

Original covers of leather over wooden boards

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Notation

Bohemian chant (for main corpus, including polyphonic Sanctus on ff. 68'-70); Black mensural (for Polyphonic Credo fragment on front flyleaves and 'Christe iudex' on rear flyleaf )

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Date

1527 (date in manuscript), with later additions

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Ruling

red 4-line staves

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Foliation

Modern foliation, 1-352, includes flyleaves; original foliation, 3-350

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM BIV/3: 16. Jh.; 351 Blätter Pergament + 2 Vorsatzblätter und 1 in den hinteren Deckel eingeklebtes Nachstoßblatt, 590 x 390 mm. Originale Foliierung von f. 3-350; moderne Foliierung von f. 1-352 (inklusive 2 Vorsatzblätter und Nachstoßblatt). Je Seite meist 7 rote Vierliniensysteme mit böhmischer Choralnotation (mit mensuralen Elementen). - Einband: 16. Jh.; mit Leder überzogener Holzdeckel.

Die Handschrift ist ein aus Pilsen stammendes, als Antiphonar bezeichnetes Graduale, das von Paulus Melnicensis geschrieben und 1527 (vergleiche f. 350) vollendet wurde. Mit Ausnahme des Sanctus (siehe unten Nr. 2) gehören die mehrstimmige Stücke nicht zum Hauptcorpus.

Inhalt: Ordinarium und Proprium Missae und Sequenzen (lat.).

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Graduale, with polyphony:

1 Credo fragment, 1 Sanctus, 1 motet = 3

Anonymous

ii + 349 + i parchment folios, 590 x 390. Modern foliation, 1-352, includes flyleaves; original foliation, 3-350. Original covers of leather over wooden boards. Main corpus, including polyphonic Sanctus on ff. 68'-70, copied in Bohemian chant notation on red 4-line staves, by Paulus Melnicensis (RISM). Polyphonic Credo fragment on front flyleaves is later addition in black mensural notation; polyphonic "Christe iudex" on rear flyleaf is later addition in white mensural notation.

1527 (date in manuscript), with later additions. Copied in Pilsen (RISM).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
2 Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous

Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: [Patrem omnipotentem ... ] Et incarnatus est ...
68v–70 Sanctus - Anonymous

Sanctus

Anonymous
Appears on: 68v–70
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Sanctus ...
352r Christe judex - Anonymous

Christe judex

Anonymous
Appears on: 352r
Genres: Motet
Voice: Discantus
Languages: Latin
Mensuration: c
Clef: c2
Voice Text: [C]hriste iudex.
Voice: Altus
Languages: Latin
Mensuration: c
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [C]hriste iudex.
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Mensuration: c
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [C]hriste iudex.
Voice: Bassus
Languages: Latin
Mensuration: c
Clef: f4
Voice Text: [C]hriste iudex.
Layout

parts
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Christe judex Anonymous 352r
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous 2
Sanctus Anonymous 68v–70

‡ denotes primary source study

Thannabaur, Peter Josef. 1962. Das einstimmige Sanctus der römischen Messe in der handschriftlichen Überlieferung des 11. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Erlanger Arbeiten zur Musikwissenschaft.  Munich. Pages: 113 u. 119.

Bartos, F M. 1926. Soupis Rukopisu Národního Musea v Praze.  Prague. Pages: II, 216.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1925. Die mehrstimmige Messe des 14. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 417ff. Pages: II, 40 *.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 301 (Anm. 2) u. 314 (incl. Anm. 1 u. 3).

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description