Copied by three scribes, one of whom was probably Antonius Janue (KanAJ). Probably copied in Genoa (GiazM and KanAJ, based upon identification of one of the scribes as Antonius Janue, a musician traced to Genoa through records of payment to him for services at the Genoese ducal palace in 1456).
I-Fn MS Magl. XIX.112bis
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy
manuscript of polyphony: 1460-70
| Archive | Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy (I-Fn) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Magl. XIX.112bis |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 290 x 205 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 55 compositions, 40 from 7 composers, 15 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Leather-covered binding
Watermark
similar to Briquet #5904, 5908, and 5909 (KanAJ).
Liminary Note
title on flyleaf: "Liber musice sinie nomine."
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Modern foliation
Surface
i parchment + 80 paper + i parchment
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s. 80ff. + 2ff. parchemin n.ch. au début et à la fin. Papier, 290 x 205 mm. Foliotation moderne au bas des ff. Les ff. 1, 61v à 80 sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 8 portées par p. Capitales ornées à la plume. Reliure ancienne cuir estampé, dos restauré.
Malgré le tampon au f. 2: «MED.PALAT.BIBL.CAES.» qui indique que ce ms. a appartenu à la bibliothèque des Médicis, on le considère généralement comme provenant d'Italie du nord plutôt que de Toscane, quelquefois même plus précisément de Gênes (Giazotto, Kanazawa), spécialement à cause de la présence de 14 pièces de Antonius de Janue qui fut en 1456 dans cette ville «cantor magiscolae in palácio». En outre, le fait que 11 de ces compositions de Janue ne se trouvent dans aucune autre source, tendrait à prouver que le compositeur était peu connu en dehors de Gênes et par là même à situer le ms. dans cette ville. La date de ca. 1460, généralement admise pour la copie du ms., trouve sa justification, et dans les filigranes que l'on retrouve sur des papiers utilisés en Italie de 1451 à 1468, et dans le répertoire. La plus grande partie (jusqu'au f. 59v) est de la main d'un même scribe, les 2 pièces finales ayant été ajoutées plus tard (no 50 vers la fin du XVe s.; no 51 vers 1520). Les révisions importantes apportées durant la copie par le scribe à certaines pièces de Antonius de Janue ont suggéré à Kanazawa la conviction que le ms. aurait été écrit par le compositeur lui-même, hypothèse que tendent à justifier de nombreuses observations concernant certaines particularités de la copie (cf. Bibliographie).
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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8 Magnificats, 1 psalm, 16 office hymns, 1 processional hymn, 21 motets, 1 textless piece = 48 + 2 duplicates = 50
(Binchois)-2, Dufay-6, Dunstable-3, (Frye)-1, Janue-13 + 2?, Power [Leonel]-2, Quadris-1, anon-18
i parchment + 80 paper + i parchment folios, 286 x 203. Ff. 61'-80' are blank. Modern foliation. Leather-covered binding. No index. Copied by three scribes, one of whom was probably Antonius Janue (KanAJ). Watermark similar to Briquet #5904, 5908, and 5909 (KanAJ). Title on flyleaf: "Liber musice sine nomine."
1460-70 (WrdH). Probably copied in Genoa (GiazM and KanAJ, based upon identification of one of the scribes as Antonius Janue, a musician traced to Genoa through records of payment to him for services at the Genoese ducal palace in 1456).
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Kanazawa, Masakata (editor). 1974. Antonii Janue: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 70. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Notes: transcription (partial).
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Cattin, Giulio (editor). 1972. Johannis de Quadris: Opera. Antiquat Musicae Italicae, Monumenta Veneta Sacra, vol. 2. Bologna. Notes: transcription (partial).
Kanazawa, Masakata. 1971. Antonius Janue and Revisions of His Music. Quadrivium, 12: 177-94. Pages: I, 177ff. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Ward, Tom Robert. 1969. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from the Late Fourteenth Century Until the Early Sixteenth Century. University of Pittsburgh, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 47-51, passim. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial); incipits (partial); concordances (partial).
Hamm, Charles E. 1968. A Catalogue of Anonymous English Music in Fifteenth-Century Continental Manuscripts. Musica Disciplina, 22: 47-76. Pages: 55, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
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Kenney, Sylvia W (editor). 1960. Walter Frye: Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 19. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: ix, 8-9. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial).
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Gerber, Rudolf. 1956. Zur italienischen Hymnenkomposition im 15. Jahrhundert. Acta Musicologica, 28: 75-86. Pages: 75ff (repris dans GerberZG, 96). Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial); incipits (partial).
Giazotto, Remo. 1951. La musica a Genova nella vita pubblica e privata dal XIII al XVIII secolo. 93ff. Genova. Pages: 93ff (avec facs. des nos 8, 9, 38).
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[No Author] 1947-. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. The American Institute of Musicology. 110 vols. A-R Editions, Inc. Pages: M. Kanazawa, in CMM 70, p. Xff.
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Smijers, Albert. 1935. Vijftiende en zestiende eeuwsche Muziekhandschriften in Italië met werken van Nederlandsche Componisten. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 14: 165-81. Pages: 173-4. Notes: contents list (partial).
Besseler, Heinrich. 1925. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 7: 167-252. Pages: 238f.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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