I-MOd MS Mus. X

Duomo, Biblioteca e Archivio Capitolare di Modena, Modena, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1520-30

Archive Duomo, Biblioteca e Archivio Capitolare di Modena, Modena, Italy (I-MOd)
Shelfmark MS Mus. X
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 560 x 410 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-MOcap X
  • CCM: ModD 10
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
Provenance
Contents Contains 26 compositions from 7 composers.
General Description

Original first gathering now misbound at beginning of ModD 12. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote parts of ModD 3, 9, 11, and 12. Copied in Modena, for use by the cathedral choir.

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Binding

Covers date from late 16th or early 17th century.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Date

Ca. 1520-30 (Crawford)

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Foliation

Modern foliation, 1-56, on lower center rectos (one original folio missing between new ff. 13/14, another between new ff. 42/43).

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Decoration

Inked calligraphic initials.

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

RISM

XVIe s. 56ff. Papier, 560X410 mm. Foliotation moderne au bas des ff. Notation mesurée blanche. 10 portées par p.

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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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4 Masses (1 incomplete), 1 Requiem Mass, 1 Agnus fragment = 6

Appenzeller [Benedictus]-1, Bauldeweyn-1, Pipelare-1, Richa-fort/(Josquin)-1, Silva-1, anon-1

56 paper folios, 560 x 410. Original first gathering now misbound at beginning of ModD 12. Modern foliation, 1-56, on lower center rectos (one original folio missing between new ff. 13/14, another between new ff. 42/43). Covers date from late 16th or early 17th century. No index. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote parts of ModD 3, 9, 11, and 12. Inked calligraphic initials.

Ca. 1520-30 (Crawford). Copied in Modena, for use by the cathedral choir.

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

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denotes primary source study

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: 159-160.

Crawford, David Eugene. 1975. Sixteenth Century Choirbooks in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato. RMS, vol. 2.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 52,120. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Thompson, Glenda Goss. 1975. Benedictus Appenzeller: Maître de la Chapelle to Mary of Hungary and Chansonnier. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 87-8,523-4. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Sparks, Edgar H. 1972. The music of Noel Bauldeweyn.  American Musicological Society. Pages: 134. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1970. Zum Schicksal des alten Musikalien-Fonds von San Luigi dei Francesi in Rom. Fontes Artis Musicae, 17: 120-7. Pages: 126. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Crawford, David Eugene. 1967. Vespers Polyphony at Modem's Cathedral in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. University of Illinois, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 62-3. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Cross, Ronald (editor). 1966-. Matthaeus Pipelare: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 34.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I.x. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Cross, Ronald. 1963. The Life and Works of Matthaeus Pipelare. Musica Disciplina, 17: 97-114. Pages: 108, 114. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kabis, Mary Elise. 1957. The Works of Jean Richafort, Renaissance Composer (1480?-c. 1548). New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 47. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits.

Rubsamen, Walter H. 1951. Music Research in Italian Libraries: An Anecdotal Account of Obstacles and Discoveries.  Los Angeles. Pages: 35,52. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances; incipits (partial).

Dondi, Antonio. 1896. Notizie storiche ed artistiche del duomo di Modena.  Modena. Pages: 164. Notes: mention of MS.

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Edward Tambling

Thursday, 3 November, 2022

Folio 48v contains the last complete page in this MS of the Richafort Requiem (Benedictus and start of Agnus Dei). Folios 49r to 51r inclusive contain the Osanna/Benedictus and complete Agnus Dei of Moulu's Missa Paranimphus.

Eric Jas

Friday, 15 March, 2019

Pointing out that the mass on fols 15v-25r is ascribed to Benedictus [Appenzeller].

Karen Cook

Wednesday, 28 November, 2018

Issue raised re missing images, which need to be inserted manually.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

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

Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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