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Copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe; same scribes also wrote most of main corpus of VatS 51 (RothS). Repertory shows strong connections with Naples; possibly copied there and brought to Rome in 1475 by chapel of Ferrante I, King of Naples, for presentation to papal chapel (RothS). More recently, origin in Ferrara or Venice proposed (SherrMSC, DeanV755).
V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 14
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
manuscript of polyphony: 1472-81
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Capp. Sist. 14 |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 575 x 422 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 77 compositions, 70 from 12 composers, 7 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Many folios in very poor condition due to severe ink corrosion; some music now illegible
Binding
Covers of medium brown leather over boards, blind tooled with decorative borders and central diamond motif; brass clasps, studs, and bosses. Covers date from 18th century (LlorCS), but decoration imitates earlier style; see VatS 13 for other manuscripts with similar bindings.
Watermark
(1) scales in circle; (2) crossbow in circle (see RothS for references to similar marks in various catalogues
Notation
black void mensural
Date
1472-81, probably 1474 (RothS).
Ruling
Staff height 27
Foliation
Modern stamped foliation, 1-170, on lower right rectos (begins on second modern flyleaf, excludes first and last flyleaves; one folio between ff. 99/100 not numbered)
Decoration
Illuminated miniatures and initials in red, blue, green, violet, and rose at beginning of each Mass; other folios have inked calligraphic initials.
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s., 170 ff. Papier, 575X422 mm. Foliotation moderne en haut des ff. jusqu'à 6. Les ff. 1v, 2r-v, 13v, 14, 75v, 76, 86v, 87, 105v, 106, 170v sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 10 portées par p. Initiales enluminées aux ff. 6v, 14v, 27v, 38v, 47v, 56v, 76v, 87v, 101v, 106v, 117v, 127v, 138v, 149v, 160v. Reliure du XVIIIe s.
Ce ms., 1e plus ancien ms. polyphonique du fonds de la Cappella Sistina, a été vraisemblablement copié sous le pontificat de Sixte IV (1472-1483), sans doute après 1481 (Haberl), au plus tard en tout cas entre 1481 et 1492 (Lindenburg).
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14 Masses, 2 Kyrie-Gloria pairs, 2 Kyries, 1 Gloria = 19
Amerval [Eloy]-1, Busnois-1, Caron-1, Domarlo-1, Dufay-3, Faugues-1, Ockeghem-1, Regis-2, Vincenet-1, Weerbecke [Gaspar]-1, Wreede-1, anon-5
ii + 170 + i paper folios, 575 x 422. Many folios in very poor condition due to severe ink corrosion; some music now illegible. Modern stamped foliation, 1-170, on lower right rectos (begins on second modern flyleaf, excludes first and last flyleaves; one folio between ff. 99/100 not numbered). Covers of medium brown leather over boards, blind tooled with decorative borders and central diamond motif; brass clasps, studs, and bosses. Covers date from 18th century (LlorCS), but decoration imitates earlier style; see VatS 13 for other manuscripts with similar bindings. No index.
Copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe; same scribes also wrote most of main corpus of VatS 51 (RothS). Staff height 27. Illuminated minia-tures and initials in red, blue, green, violet, and rose at beginning of each Mass; other folios have inked calligraphic initials. Watermarks: (1) scales in circle; (2) crossbow in circle (see RothS for references to similar marks in various catalogues).
1472-81, probably 1474 (RothS). Copied in Naples; probably brought to Rome in 1475 by chapel of Ferrante I, King of Naples, for presentation to papal chapel (RothS).
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‡ denotes primary source study
Christoffersen, Peter Woetmann. 2018. ‘An experiment in musical unity, or: The sheer joy of sound. The anonymous Sine nomine mass in MS Cappella Sistina 14’. Danish Yearbook of Musicology, 42:1: 54-78. Pages: 57. Notes: mention of ms, concordances (partial); discussion.
Christoffersen, Peter Woetmann (editor). 2018. The anonymous Missa Sine nomine in MS Cappella Sistina 14. http://sacred.pwch.dk/. Pages: v-vi. Notes: mention of ms, concordances (partial); discussion.
Christoffersen, Peter Woetmann (editor). 2018. Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Se la face ay pale. http://www.sacred.pwch.dk/(Accessed: 26-5-2020).
Stoessel, Jason. 2016. Introduction: [the masses of Guillaume Faugues]. The complete extant transmissions of the masses by Guillaume Faugues (by Rex Eakins), Lions Bay, Canada: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: xvii. Notes: mention of MS.
‡ Sherr, Richard Jonathan (editor). 2010. Masses for the Sistine Chapel: Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Sisitins MS 14. Monuments of Renaissance Music. 616. University of Chicago Press. Notes: facsimile (partial); description; contents; transcriptions.
Dean, Jeffrey J. 2004. Verona 755 and the Incomprehensibilia Composer. Manoscritti di polifonia nel Quattrocento europeo: Atti del Convegno internazionale di Studi, 93-108. Trento: Soprintendenza per i Beni Librari e Archivistici. Notes: origins of ms.
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.
Taruskin, Richard. 1986. Antoine Busnoys and the L'Homme armé Tradition. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 39: 255-93. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Burkholder, J Peter. 1985. Johannes Martini and the Imitation Mass of the Late Fifteenth Century. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 38: 470-523. Pages: 506, 518. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Strohm, Reinhard. 1985. Music in Late Medieval Bruges. Oxford. Pages: 126-7,142,193,195-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Dean, Jeffrey J. 1984. The Scribes of the Sistine Chapel 1501-1527. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 3, 280. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Josephson, Nors S (editor). 1982-. Early Sixteenth-Century Sacred Music from the Papal Chapel. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 95. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II,xi,109-24,139-46. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).
Brauner, Mitchell Paul. 1982. The Parvus Manuscripts: A Study of Vatican Polyphony, ca. 1535 to 1580. Brandeis University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 226-7. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
Reynolds, Christopher Alan. 1982. The Music Chapel at San Pietro in Vaticano in the Later Fifteenth Century. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 31-2,68,96,236,252. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Roth, Adalbert. 1982. Studien zum frühen Repertoire der Päpstlichen Kapelle unter dem Pontifikat Sixtus' IV. (1471-1484). Die Chorbücher 14 und 51 des Fondo Cappella Sistina der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt am Main), Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 1981. Fifteenth-Century Masses: Notes on Performance and Chronology. Studi Musicali, 10: 3-29. Pages: 6-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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.v-vi, 100-37. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Davis, Bertran Earl. 1960. The Works of Johannes Vincenet. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,A-B,7-9,ll,144,150, passim; II,1-106,237-345. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Llorens Cisteró, José Maria. 1960. Capellae Sistinae Codices musicis notis instructi sive manu scripti sive praelo excussi. Studi e testi, vol. 202. Città del Vaticano. Pages: 18ff.
Llorens Cisteró, José Maria. 1960. Capellae Sixtinae Codices. Vatican City. Pages: 18-20,477, Tab. V. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipits (partial); facsimile (partial).
Schuetze, George C, Jr. 1960. An Introduction to Faugues. Musicological Studies, vol. 2. Brooklyn. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schuetze, George C, Jr (editor). 1960. Faugues. No. I of Collected Works. The Collected Works of Faugues, vol. I. Brooklyn. Pages: 85-116. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).
Schuetze, George C, Jr. 1960. The Works of Guillaume Faugues. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 13-4, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schuetze, George C, Jr (editor). 1959. Opera Omnia Faugues. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 7. Brooklyn. Pages: iii-viii,46-67. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Schuetze, George C, Jr (editor). 1959. Opera omnia Faugues, Facsimile of the compositions of Faugues from the mss. Trent 88, Trent 91, Cappella Sistina 14, Cappella Sistina 51, Verona 761, Modena a M. 1. 13. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts [Veröffentlichungen mittelalterlicher Musikhandschriften], vol. 7. Pages: 7, p. III-V.
Lindenburg, Cornells W H (editor). 1956. Johannis Regis: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 9. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I,i,1-24. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: II,1346; III,1865-6; IV, Tafel 58; XIII, Tafel 13. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial).
de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: III. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Plamenac, Dragan. 1948. Review of MME I. The Musical Quarterly, 34: 289-93. Pages: H. Angles, in MME I, 126.
Feininger, Laurence K (editor). 1947-48. Series I: Ordinarium missae (1948) & Series II: Proprium missae (1947). Monumenta Polyphoniae Liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Rome. Pages: Series I, II/2,iii-v, #IV-V; Series I, II/4, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan (editor). 1947-. Johannes Ockeghem: Collected Works. American Musicological Society. Pages: I,xvi,xxxii,57-77, Plate VI. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Haberl, Franz Xavier. 1885-88. Bausteine für Musikgeschichte. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II, 6, 397, 468.
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