The main scribe was 'Do[min]us Marsilius,' whose name appears at end of index; five other scribes made later additions (FullA). Probably copied in Naples or Rome (AtlCG, HabkWVS). Once owned by Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-84), whose signature appears on f. 2.
I-Bc Q.16
Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
manuscript of polyphony: 1487
| Archive | Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (I-Bc) |
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| Shelfmark | Q.16 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 210 x 140 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 135 compositions, 51 from 29 composers, 84 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Ff. 13 and 143 are missing.
Binding
Original covers of brown tooled leather, with clasps.
Watermark
(1) resembles Briquet #3861; (2) resembles Briquet #4776-7; (3) resembles Briquet #12149 (JepFR).
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original ink foliation, i-cxxxvi, beginning on 14th folio (excludes back flyleaves; 'xxxiiii' and 'cxiiii' applied, respectively, to two consecutive folios; one unnumbered folio, respectively, between ff. cxxi/cxxii and ff. cxxv/cxxvi). Modern pencil foliation, 1-153 (cited here).
Decoration
Inked initials.
Index
Original index on ff. 2-7' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (a few pieces not listed).
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s. (1487). 153ff. Papier, 213 x 140 mm.
Foliotation ancienne en ch. romains I-CXXXVI commençant au f. 14 de la foliotation moderne 1-153. Les ff. 8, 99v [=85v], 152 [= 135], 153v [= 136v] sont blancs. Le f. 12 mq. et a été remplacé par un f. blanc chiffré [12]. Les ff. [34], [114], [121], et [125] ont été chiffrés 2 fois. Le haut du f. 73 [= 59] déchiré. Notation mesurée blanche. 7 portées par p. Aux ff. 30 [= 17] et 149v-151 [=132v-134], règles de notation en latin et italien. Aux ff. l-7v, table du ms. Capitales ornées à la plume. Reliure ancienne de cuir estampé, bouillons et fermoirs de cuivre.
Ms. de plusieurs mains (on peut en distinguer 7) provenant de la bibliothèque du P. Martini qui a inscrit son nom au bas du f. 3. A la fin de la table: «finis DO9 [Dominicus?] 1.4.8.7.: Marsilius», désigne probablement le scribe qui, en 1487, a copié la plus grande partie du ms. jusqu'au no 107, quatre ou cinq copistes s'étant ensuite succédés après cette date pour compléter le recueil. (Cf. Bibliographie: Fuller). Les filigranes révèlent des papiers employés en Italie de 1484 à 1488, dates qui correspondent à celles du répertoire avec des compositeurs actifs entre 1460 et 1490 environ. Malgré le grand nombre de pièces en français (95), leur orthographe fautive au point de rendre les textes incompréhensibles, alors que les pièces italiennes (19) sont plus correctes, laisse supposer un copiste italien, les concordances avec d'autres mss. suggérant Florence comme origine possible, Naples ayant aussi été proposé (Atlas). Cependant, la présence de 10 pièces espagnoles a permis de penser que le ms. aurait pu être copié, sinon par un espagnol en Espagne ou en Italie, selon l'hypothèse de Anglés, mais dans un centre italien ayant des hens avec l'Espagne, tel que la cour papale alors dominée par le cercle de Rodrigo Borgia (le futur Alessandro VI) ou le royaume de Naples sous les Aragon, (cf. Fuller, 86).
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1 Mass, 5 motets, 87 French secular pieces, 30 Italian secular pieces, 8 Spanish secular pieces = 131
(A. Agricola)-2, (A. Agricola/Compere)-1, (Basin)-1, (Brolo)-1, (Busnois)-9, (Busnois/Felice de Giovanni)-1, (Caron)-4 (Caron/ Busnois)-1, (Caron/Dusart)-1, (Compère)-3, (Dufay?)-1, (Dufay/Ockeghem)-1, (Dux Burgensis)-1, (Giliardi)-1, (Guglielmo)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-2, J.P.(?)-1, (Josquin)-1, (Josquin/Lannoy)-1, (León)-1, (Martini)-3, (Martini/Malcort/Ockeghem)-1, (Obrecht/Isaac/Weerbecke)-1, (Ockeghem)-1, (Touront)-1, (Vincenet)-1, (Wreede)-2, anon-86
ii + 152 + iv paper folios, 210 x 140. Ff. 13 and 143 are missing. Modern pencil foliation, 1-154, including the two front flyleaves; original ink foliation, I-CXXXVI, beginning on new f. 13. Original covers of brown tooled leather. Original index on ff. 3-8'. Scribe A, a certain Marsilius, copied the first and largest layer, through f. 127', then added an index in a gathering placed at the front of the manuscript; he wrote "finis" at the end of the section he copied, on f. 127', and also at the end of the index, on f. 8'. Scribes B and C added new pieces beginning on f. 128, then added titles of these to the index. Still later, three other scribes added single pieces on blank folios; these were not added to the index. Three watermarks: Briquet #3861 (Palermo, Rome, 1484); Briquet #4776-7 (Lucca, Udine, 1487-8); Briquet #12149 (Rome, 1484). Brief treatises in Latin are found on ff. 2' and 150'-152. Texts consist of incipits only (for all but three pieces); perhaps the repertory is instrumental (FullA).
Section A completed 1487 (inscription on f. 8': "finis / Do. 1487 / Marsilius"); second section added in 1490's (FullA) or 1500-10 (PeasC). Copied in Rome or Naples (FullA); Naples (HabkWVS, AtlCM); Bologna (ChegSB). Coat of arms on f. 2' is that of the de'Marsili family of Florence (PeasRC). Manuscript was in the possession of Padre Martini in the 18th century; his signature and some comments in his hand appear on f. 3.
Vol. 4
1 Mass, 5 motets, 95 French secular pieces (2 incomplete), 19 Italian secular pieces (1 incomplete), 10 Spanish secular pieces = 130*
'Most pieces have text incipits or titles only, often corrupt; in some cases, precise determination of language of incipit is impossible.
(A. Agricola)-1, (A. Agricola/Compère)-1, (A. Agricola/Ghiselin) -1, (Basin)-1, (Brolo)-1, (Busnois)-8, (Busnois/Caron)-1, (Busnois/Isaac)-1, (Busnois-anon)-1, (Caron)-4, (Caron/Dusart)-1, (Compère)-3, (Dufay?-Hémart)-1, (Dufay/Ockeghem)-1, (Dux Burgensis)-1, (Enrique/Wreede)-1, (Guglielmo)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, J.P.-1, (Josquin)-1, (Josquin/Lannoy)-1, (León)-1, (Malcort/Martini/Ockeghem)-1, (Martini)-3, (Morton)-2, (Ockeghem)-1, (Touront)-3, (Vincenet)-1, (Wreede)-1, anon-83
153 + iv paper folios, 214 x 140. Original ink foliation, i-cxxxvi, beginning on 14th folio (excludes back flyleaves; "xxxiiii" and "cxiiii" applied, respec-tively, to two consecutive folios; one unnumbered folio, respectively, between ff. cxxi/cxxii and ff. cxxv/cxxvi). Modern pencil foliation, 1-153 (cited here). Original covers of brown tooled leather, with clasps. Original index on ff. 2-7' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (a few pieces not listed). The main scribe was "Do[min]us Marsilius," whose name appears at end of index; five other scribes made later additions (FullA). Inked initials. Watermarks: (1) resembles Briquet #3861; (2) resembles Briquet #4776-7; (3) resembles Briquet #12149 (JepFR).
1487 (date at end of index), with additions in 1490's (FullA). Probably copied in Naples or Rome (AtlCG, HabkWVS). Once owned by Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-84), whose signature appears on f. 2.
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Fallows, David. 1984. Johannes Ockeghem: The changing image, the songs and a new source. Early Music, 12: 218-30. Pages: 226-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Brown, Howard Mayer (editor). 1983. A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. VII. Chicago and London. Pages: 183,211ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii,xxvi-xxvii,xxxvi,70-6, 95-101. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: I, 70.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: II,152-3,203ff, 542,573ff. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Baker, Norma Klein. 1978. An Unnumbered Manuscript of Polyphony in the Archives of the Cathedral of Segovia: Its Provenance and History. University of Maryland, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 22. Notes: mention of MS.
Schavran, Henrietta. 1978. The Manuscript Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Codice Aldini 362: A Study of Song Tradition in Italy Circa 1440-1480. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,50-7,79,135-6,201,253,333-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1977. On the Neapolitan Provenance of the Manuscript Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, 431 (G 20). Musica Disciplina, 31: 45ff. Pages: 45-9,82ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Hudson, Barton (editor). 1977. Hayne van Ghizeghem: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 74. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii,xxi ,xxxv-xxxviii. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Thompson, James (editor). 1976. Les Oeuvres Completes de Philippe (?) Caron. Transcription et Notes Critiques de James Thomson. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: II.ii-iv. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I,78ff,235-60, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1971. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Giulia XIII. 27, and the Dissemination of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson in Italy, c. 1460-c. 1530. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 459-61. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; concordances (partial).
D'Accone, Frank A. 1970. Some Neglected Composers in the Florentine Chapels, ca. 1475-1525. Viator, 1: 263-88. Pages: 268. Notes: mention of MS.
Fuller, Sarah. 1969. Additional Notes on the 15th-century Chansonnier Bologna Q 16. Musica Disciplina, 23: 81-103. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 10ff et 110.
Haberkamp, Gertraut. 1968. Die weltliche Vokalmusik in Spanien um 1500. Der Cancionero musical de Colombina von Sevilla und außerspanische Handschriften. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 12. Tutzing. Pages: 66,73,78,85,290-308. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pease, Edward Joseph. 1968. A Re-Examination of the Caccia Found in Bologna, Civico Museo, Codex Q 16. Musica Disciplina, 22: 231-3.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1967. Ottaviano Petrucci: Canti B Numero Cinquanta Venice, 1502. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. II. Chicago and London. Pages: 10, passim. Notes: mention of MS; concordances (partial).
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Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
merged 'Dieu d'amour (f.16) with other concordant versions of 'Malheur me bat'. “La trentanta,” f. 94v-95, re-titled with its proper name “L’autre d’antan”; “La trentanta” seems to be an attempt to convert the sounds of the French words into a plausible Italian tite
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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