V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 35

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1487-90

Archive Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav)
Shelfmark MS Capp. Sist. 35
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 550-5 x 425 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Rvat 35
  • CCM: VatS 35
  • olim (Former shelfmark): I-Rvat MS Capp. Sist. 35
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
Contents Contains 96 compositions, 91 from 12 composers, 5 are anonymous.
General Description

Composite of originally separate gatherings. Copied by one main scribe, who also wrote ff. 186-186' of VatS 41 and ff. 196'-215 of VatS 51 (RothS). Six additional scribes, as follows: (1) ff. 15'-18, 20'-21; (2) added individual voices to several Mass sections copied by main scribe on ff. 88', 89', 92', 93', and 121'; (scribe 3) ff. 178'-184, 200'-203 (also wrote ff. 2'-5 and 183'-195 of VatS 51); (4) ff. 188'-191; (5) ff. 192'-200, 206'-208'; (scribe 6) ff. 204'-206 (also wrote ff. 10'-12 and 38-48 of VatS 15, ff. 50'-54', 185', and 187 of VatS 41, and all of VatS 197).

Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina - "the earliest surviving choirbook we are certain was copied in and for the papal chapel" (Jeffrey Dean - noting that Capp Sist 14 & 51, which pre-date it, may also have been so copied).

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Physical Description

Many folios in poor condition due to ink corrosion; some music now illegible.

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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 (except for spine, added in 1898), but decoration imitates earlier style; see VatS 13 for other manuscripts with similar bindings

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Watermark

include fleur-de-lis in circle (RothS)

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 25 (26-27 on ff. 137-146).

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation (cited here), 1-208, on lower center rectos (begins on second modern flyleaf; excludes rear flyleaf). Modern foliation replaces inconsistent and incomplete original ink foliation, i-clv, on upper right rectos, and 18th- or 19th-century ink foliation, 1-207, on lower right rectos.

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Decoration

Ink and watercolour initials (blue, green, red) in calligraphic style, decorated with human faces, animals, and floral tracery.

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Surface

paper

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DIAMM Note

SherrPMM’s ‘Scribe B’ copies pieces by de Orto & des Pres (only) in Vats 15, 35, 41 and 197. RodinWIR considers it therefore “tempting to identify Scribe B as one of the two composers”.

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RISM Description

RISM

XVe s. 208ff. Papier, 560 x 425 mm. Foliotation ajoutée au XVIIIe s. Les ff. 1r-v, 2, 7v, 8, 11, 12, 21v, 22r-v, 37v, 38, 135v à 136v, 186v à 188, 191v, 192, 203v, 204, 208v sont blancs. Notation mesurée par p. Capitales ornées en coul. Reliure du XVIIIe s. cuir, fermoirs et bouillons métal.

Ms. copié à différentes périodes mais pour la plus large part sous le pontificat d'Innocent VIII (1484-1492). On y reconnaît en effet la main du copiste du ms. 51 où figurent au f. 196 les armoiries de ce pape, que l'on trouve aussi, mais non terminées, au f. 23 du présent ms. Cependant, le motet no 24 (copié une 2e fois au no 26) écrit pour le couronnement du pape Alexandre VI en 1492 indique qu' il faut situer à cette date, et en tout cas pas après 1503 (mort d'Alexandre), la copie d'un 2e scribe aux ff. 188 à 200.

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14 Masses (1 incomplete), 1 Kyrie-Gloria Mass, 1 Kyrie-Sanctus Mass, 1 Credo, 9 motets =26 + 1 duplicate = 27

Basiron-2, Compère/(Josquin)-1, Isaac-1, Josquin-1, (Josquin/Martini)-1, Martini-1, Obrecht-2, Ockeghem-2, Orto-5 + 1?, Prioris-1, Tinctoris-1, Vaqueras-2, Weerbecke [Gaspar]-2, anon-3

ii + 207 + i paper folios, 550-5 x 425. Composite of originally separate gatherings. Many folios in poor condition due to ink corrosion; some music now illegible. Modern pencil foliation (cited here), 1-208, on lower center rectos (begins on second modern flyleaf; excludes rear flyleaf). Modern foliation replaces inconsistent and incomplete original ink foliation, i-clv, on upper right rectos, and 18th- or 19th-century ink foliation, 1-207, on lower right rectos.

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 (except for spine, added in 1898), but decoration imitates earlier style; see VatS 13 for other manuscripts with similar bindings. No index.

Copied by one main scribe, who also wrote ff. 186-186' of VatS 41 and ff. 196'-215 of VatS 51 (RothS). Six additional scribes, as follows: (1) ff. 15'-18, 20'-21; (2) added individual voices to several Mass sections copied by main scribe on ff. 88', 89', 92', 93', and 121'; (3) ff. 178'-184, 200'-203 (also wrote ff. 2'-5 and 183'-195 of VatS 51); (4) ff. 188'-191; (5) ff. 192'-200, 206'-208'; (6) ff. 204'-206 (also wrote ff. 10'-12 and 38-48 of VatS 15, ff. 50'-54', 185', and 187 of VatS 41, and all of VatS 197). Staff height 25 (26-27 on ff. 137-146). Ink and watercolor initials (blue, green, red) in calligraphic style, decorated with human faces, animals, and floral tracery. Watermarks include fleur-de-lis in circle (RothS).

Ca. 1487-90 (main layer), with additions ca. 1492-9. Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina.

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Dean, Jeffrey J. 2009. The Far-Reaching Consequences of Basiron's L’Homme Armé Mass. . Notes: discussion.

Rodin, Jesse. 2008. “When in Rome…”: What Josquin Learned in the Sistine Chapel. Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 61/2: 307-372. Pages: 319. Notes: discussion, scribal concordances.

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: 477-9, 512, 514, 518, 521-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Maas, Chris J (editor). 1983-. New Obrecht Edition.  Utrecht. Pages: III, xi-ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Noblitt, Thomas L. 1983. Filiation vis-à-vis its Alternatives: Approaches to Textual Criticism. Datierung und Filiation von Musikhandschriften der Josquin-Zeit, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 26. 111-27. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Roth, Adalbert. 1983. Zur Datierung der frühen Chorbücher der päpstlichen Kapelle. Datierung und Filiation von Musikhandschriften der Josquin-Zeit, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 26. 239-68. Wiesbaden. Pages: 250, 267-8. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Keahey, Thomas Herman, and Conrad Edward Mary Douglas (editors). 1982-85. Johannes Prioris: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 90.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I, xvi, 47-70. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

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-xiii,147-63, 219. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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: 87-8, 95-6, 154, 236, 251. 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. Pages: 8, 19, 22-4, 200, 216, 245. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gore, Glenn Leon. 1978. The Works of Philippe Basiron (Philippon?): Transcription and Commentary. West Virginia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 6, 12-4, 35ff; II, x-xiii, xix, 86-132. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Sherr, Richard Jonathan (editor). 1978. Bertrandi Vaqueras: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 78.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: ix, xiii, 98-111. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I, xxxviii, 32-4, 59-60, 84; III, 76-7. Notes: contents list; Dcontents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Melin, William (editor). 1976. Johannes Tinctoris: Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 18.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: x, xii, 74-114. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Sherr, Richard Jonathan. 1975. The Papal Chapel ca. 1492-1513 and Its Polyphonic Sources. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 191-2. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Curtis, Alan (editor). 1974. Gaspar van Weerbeke, Missa Princesse d'amourettes 4 vx. Exempla Musica Neerlandica. 1964- (VvNM), vol. VII. Edited by Willem Elders.  Amsterdam. Pages: VIII. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Miller, Ronald Lee. 1974. The Musical Works of Marbriano de Orto: Transcription and Commentary. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 15-7, 106ff, 124ff, 140, 159ff; II, 293-339, 358-82, 424-57. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Wexler, Richard. 1974. The Complete Works of Johannes Prioris. . Pages: 27-8, 39-138, 372, 397-443. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Lockwood, Lewis Henry. 1973-74. Aspects of the 'L'Homme armé' Tradition. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 100: 97-122. Pages: 110.

Finscher, Ludwig. 1966. Loyset Compère: Life and works. MSD, vol. 12.  Roma. Pages: 118.

Osthoff, Helmuth. 1962. Josquin Desprez. 2 vols. Tutzing. Pages: II, 7-8, 53-4, 287, Abb. 3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Llorens Cisteró, José Maria. 1960. Capellae Sixtinae Codices.  Vatican City. Pages: 69-72, 483-4. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipits (partial).

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: 69ff.

Plamenac, Dragan (editor). 1947-. Johannes Ockeghem: Collected Works.  American Musicological Society. Pages: I, xvi-ff, 44-56. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Stephan, Wolfgang. 1937. Die Burgundisch-Niederländische Motette zur Zeit Ockeghems.  Kassel. Pages: 93.

Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten.  Amsterdam. Pages: II, vii, ix. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1908-21. Reprint: Farnborough, England, 1968. Werken van Jacob Obrecht.  Leipzig and Amsterdam,. Pages: XX/XXI, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Haberl, Franz Xavier. 1885-88. Bausteine für Musikgeschichte. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II, 14.

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Giacomo Pirani

Tuesday, 17 November, 2020

Pointed out that the tractus "Domine non secundum peccata nostra" on ff. 5v-7 which in the MS is attributed to "Judocus de Pratis" (i.e. to Johannes de Stockem) has been attributed to Josquin Desprez.

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

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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