I-FZc MS 117 (Faenza)

Biblioteca Comunale, Faenza, Italy

choirbook: 15th century

Archive Biblioteca Comunale, Faenza, Italy (I-FZc)
Shelfmark MS 117 (Faenza)
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Surface Parchment
Measurements 245 x 175 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-FZc117
  • RISM: Fa
  • CCM: FaenBC 117
  • Other catalogues/source: Fa
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
Contents Contains 68 compositions, 26 from 10 composers, 42 are anonymous.
General Description

The original layer of the manuscript consists of organ intabulations of 14th-century vocal works; CaraE is a facsimile edition of this part of the manuscript, and these pieces are transcribed in PlamKM. The 22 15th-century pieces were added later, on pages that had originally been left blank; several treatises were copied on blank pages at the same time. The original layer of keyboard intabulations was copied in northern Italy; the second layer (the 22 pieces listed above) was copied by Johannes Bonadies at the Carmelite monastery of San Paolo in Ferrara. These pieces may represent a Lucca repertory of 1467-73. The manuscript was later taken to Faenza, probably in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Physical Description

The original f. 12, which had been lost, was replaced by a modern folio in 1959.

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Binding

New covers of dark brown leather with gold tooling, dating from 1958.

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Liminary Note

inscription on the cover "Bonadies regulae cantus"

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Notation

black full mensural; black void mensural for later pieces; keyboard intabulations

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Foliation

i + 1-99 + i

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-98, added in 1959 under the direction of Dragan Plamenac after the fascicles had been reordered; various other systems of foliation and pagination from the 19th and 20th centuries, all incomplete or in incorrect order.

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Surface

Parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 4: 15. Jh.; 95 Blätter Pergament + 1 Pergament-Ergänzungsblatt (f. 12) + je ein Pergament-Vorsatz- und -Nachstoßblatt, 245 x 175 mm. 3 verschiedene Foliierung und Pag. (alle 19./20. Jh.): richtige und seit 1959 gültige Bleistiftfoliierung zuunterst rechts auf dem Rectoblätter von f. 1-98 (Vorsatz-, Ergänzungs- und Nachstoßblätter inklusive); unmittelbar über dieser Foliierung an verschiedenen Stellen eine Bleistiftfoliierung von gleicher Hand (von der jüngsten teilweise um minus 1, teilweise stärker abweichend); Pag. des 19. Jh. (oben links und rechts) von p. 2-164, die jedoch erst mit moderne f. 5 beginnt; Reste der originale Foliierung von f. 1-5 (= moderne f. 88-92). Je Seite 8 rote Sechsliniensysteme mit schwarzer und schwarz/roter Mensuralnotation des ausgehenden 14. Jh.; in den jüngeren Teilen weiße Mensuralnotation - Einband: 20. Jh.; schwarzes Leder mit Goldpressung; die Handschrift wurde 1958/59 neu eingebunden (siehe unten).

Diese aus 10 Faszikeln bestehende Handschrift stammt aus dem Karmeliterkloster S. Paolo in Ferrara und gelangte im 20. Jh., vermutlich zwischen 1914 und 1918, nach Ferrara. Sie war schon Padre Martini (vergleiche Teilabschrift in Bologna) und W. Ambros bekannt, und trug früher den irreführenden Namen Codex Bonadies. Von Bonadies stammen nur die um 1473/74 auf schon im frühen 15. Jh. vorlinierten Blättern vorgenommenen Eintragungen von Kompositionen und musiktheoretischen Traktaten. Die Handschrift selbst ist ca. 60 Jahre älter und enthält eine in ihrer vollen Bedeutung erst durch D. Plamenac erkannte Sammlung von Intavolierungen italienischer und französischer Werke des 14. und frühesten 15. Jh. in italienischer Orgeltabulaturnotation (Partiturnotation auf 2 Sechsliniensystemen). Zudem stellt sie das bisher wohl früheste bekannte Zeugnis für die Orgelmesse dar. Mit Plamenac, dem wir auch die richtige Anordnung der vor 1959 teilweise falsch gebundenen Blätter verdanken, ist oberitalienische Herkunft und Entstehung der Handschrift um 1410/20 anzunehmen.

Inhalt: f. 2r-5r, 36r-58r, 68r-83v, 88r-97v: Intavolierungen (ältester Teil der Handschrift). -f. 5v-35v, 59v-67v, 84r-87v: von Bonadies eingetragene Kompositionen (siehe Incipitverzeichnis) und Traktate von de Muris, Ph. de Caserta (?), Ciconia, J. de Regio, Hothby, N. Weyts, Pr. Bartholomeus. - Leer sind: f. 1r/v (Vorsatzblatt), 12r/v (Ergänzungsblatt für verlorenes BL), 27r, 32v, 33r/v, 58v, 59r, 61v, 98v (Nachstoßblatt, dessen Vorderseite elementartheoretische Musikeintragungen des 15./16. Jh. enthält).

INCIPITVERZEICHNIS

Die im Incipitverzeichnis verwendeten Foliozahlen entsprechen der jüngsten, 1959 von D. Plamenac eingetragenen Foliierung. - Der in einzelnen Stücken Auftakte bezeichnende Halbbogen ist durch eine punktierte Linie wiedergegeben.

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4 Kyries, 1 Gloria, 1 Sanctus, 5 Magnificats, 5 motets, 4 Italian secular pieces, 1 setting of a Greek text, 1 textless fuga = 22 (this count excludes the 14th-century keyboard repertory)

Bonadies-1, Erfordia-5, Hothby-9, Ycart-5, anon-2

i + 96 + i parchment folios, 248 x 175. The original f. 12, which had been lost, was replaced by a modern folio in 1959. Modern pencil foliation, 1-98, added in 1959 under the direction of Dragan Plamenac after the fascicles had been reordered; various other systems of foliation and pagination from the 19th and 20th centuries, all incomplete or in incorrect order. New covers of dark brown leather with gold tooling, dating from 1958. No index. The original layer of the manuscript consists of organ intabulations of 14th-century vocal works in Italian Trecento notation; CaraE is a facsimile edition of this part of the manuscript, and these pieces are transcribed in PlamKM. The 22 15th-century pieces were added later, in white mensural notation, on pages that had originally been left blank; several treatises were copied on blank pages at the same time. The inscription "Bonadies regulae cantus" is found on the cover.

The original layer of keyboard intabulations was copied in northern Italy ca. 1410-20; the second layer (the 22 pieces listed above) was copied by Johannes Bonadies at the Carmelite monastery of San Paolo in Ferrara in 1473-4; these pieces may represent a Lucca repertory of 1467-73. Padre Martini borrowed the manuscript from Ferrara; BolC A32 is his copy of the later polyphonic works and the treatises in FaenBC 117. The manuscript was later taken to Faenza, probably in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Date/provenance: Delete sentence "Padre Martini borrowed the manuscript from Ferrara; BolC A32 is his copy of the later polyphonic works and the treatises in FaenBC 117."

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Robinson, Richard. 2017. The Faenza Codex: The Case for Solo Organ Revisited. Journal of Musicology, Vol 34 no. 4: 610-646.

Memelsdorff, Pedro. 2013. The Codex Faenza 117: Instrumental Polyphony in Late Medieval Italy, Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition,. 2 vols vols. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.

Memelsdorff, Pedro. 2004. New music in the Codex Faenza 117. Plainsong and Medieval Music, 13/2: 141-161.

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.

Atlas, Allan W. 1985. Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples.  Cambridge. Pages: 79,124-5, 133-6,200-3,234. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1970. Alcune Osservazioni sulla Struttura del Codice 117 della Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, 161-75. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; facsimile (partial).

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 23. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial).

Kanazawa, Masakata. 1966. Polyphonic music for Vespers in the fifteenth century. Harvard University, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2 vols. Pages: 413-21. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial).

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 135.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1964. A Note on the Rearrangement of Faenza Codex 117. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 17: 78-81. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1964. Faventina. Liber amicorum Charles van den Borren, 145ff. Antwerp. Pages: 145ff.

Seay, Albert (editor). 1964. The Musical Works of John Hothby. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 33.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: vii-viii; 1-31. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Seay, Albert. 1964. John Hothby, Collected Musical Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 55.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: Übertragungen von Nr. 3, 10, 38, 39, 41, 56-59). - Weitere Faksimiles und Übertragungen siehe MGG II, Sp. 103; III, Sp. 1711 und Tf. 52; VI, Sp. 775.

‡ [No Author] 1959/61. The Codex Faenza, Biblioteca Comunale, 117 [Fa]. Musica Disciplina, 13-15: .

Roncaglia, Gino. 1957. La Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Modena. Historiae Musicae Cultores, vol. V.  Florence: Biblioteca.

Fischer, Kurt von. 1956. Studien zur italienischen Musik des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, vol. Serie II, Vol. 5.  Bern: Paul Haupt. Pages: 98.

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1955-83. Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 11, 1-6.  Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: Commentary Notes, 52.

Pirrotta, Nino. 1954. Note su un codice di antiche musiche per tastiera. Rivista Musicale Italiana, 56: 333-9. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1953. New light on the Codex Faenza 117. Bericht über den internationalen Kongress für Kirchenmusik in Bern, 1952, Publikationen der schweizerischen musikforschenden Gesellschaft, vol. ii/3. 310–326. Bern: Paul Haupt. Pages: 310ff.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1951. Keyboard Music of the 14th Century in Codex Faenza 117. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 4: 179-201. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipits of contents (partial); facsimile (partial); transcription (partial); additional bibliography.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: II, 102-5; III,1709-14 and Tafel 52; VI,776-7. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial); facsimile (partial); additional bibliography.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1949-79. Faenza, Codex 117. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st Edition, 3: 1709ff.

Borren, Charles van den. 1940. Le Codex de Johannes Bonadies, musicien du XVe siècle. Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, 10: 251-61. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Roncaglia, Gino. 1939. Intorno ad un codice di Johannes Bonadies. Atti e Memorie della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena, Serie V, 4: 31-43. Notes: physical description; contents list; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. None. Gesamtausgabe der Tabulaturstücke in Übertragung.

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Jokūbas Gadišauskas

Friday, 19 July, 2024

canon on f.11v given a more usefully descriptive title

Jokūbas Gadišauskas

Sunday, 5 May, 2024

Both "Elas mon coeur" intabulations are anonymous

Adam Gilbert

Thursday, 11 November, 2021

Works incorrectly attributed to Henricus Isaac now correctly attributed to Bernhard Ycart.

Alex Robinson

Wednesday, 1 August, 2018

Added memelsdorff facsimile & Robinson JMus article to bibliography

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

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

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