I-Bc A.71

Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

theory treatise and non-music MS with added polyphony: 1510-5

Archive Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (I-Bc)
Shelfmark A.71
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Pagination
Measurements 215 x 145 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Bc 71
  • CCM: BolC A71
  • olim (Former shelfmark): 159
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
Contents Contains 24 compositions, 15 from 5 composers, 9 are anonymous.
General Description

The manuscript contains six treatises on music (Guillermo de Podio-3, Gafurius-2, anon-1); the polyphonic pieces are inserted between the treatises, or in some cases occur as musical examples within the treatises. Possibly compiled at the Spanish College in Bologna. The flyleaves preceding the manuscript proper contain a letter concerning the acquisition of the manuscript by Padre Martini.

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Watermark

(1) generally resembles Briquet #6649; (2) hand sur-mounted by five-petalled flower (not in Briquet).

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Pagination, perhaps 18th century, 1-303.

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Index

18th-century index, probably by Padre Martini on front flyleaves

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

RISM

XVe/XVIe s. 303 p. Papier, 215 x 150 mm.

Pagination du P. Martini. Les p. 132, 133, 221, 231, 236 à 240, 249, 250, 253, 257, 265, 277 à 283, 285, 292 à 295 sont blanches. Notation mesurée blanche. 10 portées par p. pleine. Sur un f. limin. n. ch. ajouté plus tard, table du ms. par le P. Martini. Initiales ornées en coul. et titres rubriqués.

Ms. considéré à tort par H. Hewitt (et à sa suite par H. Osthoff, cf. Bibliographie) comme la copie faite au XIXe s. d'un ms. «of the Carmelite monastery of St. Paul at Ferrara», celui-ci étant en réalité le ms. 117 de Faenza dont certaines pièces, transcrites en 1753 par le P. Martini, ont été réunies sous la cote A. 32 (2e partie), ms. qui ne présente donc aucun rapport avec A. 71. Dans une lettre non datée jointe au ms., adressée à Mons. Carampi (vraisemblablement l'archevêque de Montefiascone Giuseppe Garampi, primitivement à Rome, avec lequel le P. Martini entretint une correspondance de 1761 à 1780), on lit: «… sarebbe desiderio grande del P. Martini di fare acquisto del sudetto codice ma conoscendosi troppo ardito, si fa coragio di richiederne una copia.» Malgré ces réticences, Martini acquit le ms. qui entra au Civico Museo avec sa collection et dont il a lui-même rédigé la table. Les traités écrits ou glosés en espagnol suggèrent que certains fascicules tout au moins avaient été copiés à l'usage des étudiants du Collège espagnol de Bologne. Concernant les attributions non confirmées à Tinctoris, on a suivi Van den Borren qui considère les ex. anonymes du De arte contrapuncti comme «l'oeuvre personnelle de Tinctoris» (Biographie nat. de Belgique, XXV). Il semble justifié, en tout cas, de lui attribuer le no 14 dédié à Beatrice d'Aragon qui avait été son élève à Naples.

Ce recueil factice constitué à la fin du XVe s. ou au début du XVIe, contient les traités suivants:

p. 1-131 «Franchini Gafori Laudensis in delubri maioris choro phonacci Theoricum opus Musice discipline féliciter incipit» …

p. 134-190 »Guillermi de Podio presbiteri In Enchiridion de principiis musice discipline contra negantes illa et destruentes. Ad Johanem de Vera decretorum Doctor eximius et ecclesie Valentie precentorem dignissimus Prologus féliciter incipit.»

p. 191-207 «Cinco son las figuras de canto de orguano …» [Résumé des ch. VIII-XXXVIII de l'Ars musicorum de G. de Podio, imprimé à Valencia en 1495].

p. 207-220 Cf. dépouillement musical

p. 222-227 «Incipit compendium musicale de diversis questionibus et diffinitionibus»

p. 228-230 «Divisió monocordi diatonici …» [6 chap, sur le monocorde]

p. 232-235 Courts exemples musicaux de notation proportionnelle

p. 241-248 «Proportio inequalitatis est duarum inequalium quantitatum ad in vicem relatio …» [Extraits du Liv. IV de la Practica musice de Gaffurio]

p. 251-264 Cf. dépouillement musical

p. 266-276 «Canto es movimiento de voces concordante ...» (Cita Papa Johan in Tract ad Fulgentius.)

p. 284 «De proportione subsesquitertia» [Id. p. 248]

p. 286-297 Cf. dépouillement musical.

p. 298-300 Courts faux-bourdons à 4vx. sur les tons 1-4 et 6 des Psaumes, désignés à la table de Martini comme falsobordone

p. 301-303 «De proportione sesquialtera …» [Id. p. 246-248 avec 1 ex. suppl. p. 301]

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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7 motets, 2 sets of falsobordone pieces, 2 French secular pieces = 11 + ca. 25 brief pieces illustrating mensural proportions and contrapuntal techniques

Josquin-1, Marlet-1, (Silva)-1, (Tinctoris)-2, (Willaert)-1, anonymous

vii + 152 + vi paper folios, 215 x 145. Pagination, perhaps from the 18th century, 1-303. The flyleaves preceding the manuscript proper contain a letter concerning the acquisition of the manuscript by Padre Martini and an 18th-century index, probably by Padre Martini. The manuscript contains six treatises on music (Guillermo de Podino-3, Gafurius-2, anon-1); the polyphonic pieces are inserted between the treatises, or in some cases occur as musical examples within the treatises.

1510-5 (O'DonSCB). Possibly compiled at the Spanish College in Bologna.

Vol 4

Contents:

Collection of treatises, with polyphonic examples:

5 psalms, 8 motets, 1 French secular piece, 1 set of textless melodic formulas

over breves in lower voice, 22 pieces illustrating mensural proportions and

contrapuntal techniques (some textless; some with Latin, French, or Italian

incipits or titles) = 37

Composers: Change "(Tinctoris)-2" to "Tinctoris-10 + 2?"; change "anony-mous" to "anon-21."

Physical: Watermarks: (1) generally resembles Briquet #6649; (2) hand sur-mounted by five-petalled flower (not in Briquet).

Date: Ca. 1515-20 (BlackLG).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Blackburn, Bonnie J. 1981. A Lost Guide to Tinctoris's Teachings Recovered. Early Music History, 1: 29-116. Pages: 36-9,46ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (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, 68.

Kirsch, Winfried. 1977. Die Motetten des Andreas de Silva: Studien zur Geschichte der Motette im 16. Jahrhundert. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 2.  Tutzing. Pages: 24-7,42,78-82,91,433,443. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gümpel, Karl-Werner. 1973. Das Enchiridion de principiis musice discipline des Guillermus de Podio. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens, 27: 359-96. Pages: (concerne surtout les traités).

O'Donoghue, Valerie Weinhouse. 1972. A Music Manuscript from the Spanish College of Bologna: A Study of the Manuscript Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71 (olim 159). University of Illinois, Unpublished Master's thesis. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list; texts.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. 1963-67. Iter Italicum, a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries.  London/Leiden. Pages: I, 29ff.

Osthoff, Helmuth. 1962. Josquin Desprez. 2 vols. Tutzing. Pages: II, 220.

Stevenson, Robert. 1960. Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus.  The Hague. Pages: 74-7. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Anglès, Higinio. 1947. La notacion musical espanola de la segunda mitad del siglo XV. Analecta Musicologica, 2: 151ff. Pages: 161ff (Ed. du traité de Podio).

Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 119.

Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola.  Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: I, 128 (concerne seul* la 1ère partie du ms. sous la cote Cod. 159).

Anglès, Higinio. 1941. La musica espanda desde la edad media hasta nuestros dias. Catalogo de la exposicion historica celebrada en commemoracion del primer centenário del nacimiento del maestro Felipe Pedrell, 18 mayo-25 junio 1941,  Barcelona. Pages: 64, n" 116.

Torchi, Luigi. 1906. I Monumenti dell'antica musica francese a Bologna. Rivista Musicale Italiana, 13: 451-505,575-615. Pages: 479. Notes: mention of MS.

Gaspari, Gaetano. 1890-1943. Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna. 5 vols. Bologna. Pages: I, 159 et 215. Notes: physical description.

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Vicente Parrilla

Monday, 28 July, 2025

fixed typos in General Description & in bibliography

Reinhard Strohm

Friday, 4 June, 2021

Corrected Guillermo de Podio's name.

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