Composite of several originally separate fascicles: Part I = new ff. 6-183; Part II = new ff. 2-5 + 183-195; Part III = new ff. 196-215. Part I copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe; same scribes also wrote VatS 14 (RothS). Emendations in Part I by four other hands. Part II copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 178'-184 and ff. 200'-203 of VatS 35; this scribe entered music in VatS 51 on paper already ruled by scribes of Part I. Part III copied by a single scribe, who also wrote most of VatS 35 and ff. 186-186' of VatS 41 (RothS). Part I copied in Naples; probably 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 (StoesselIntro). Parts II and III copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina.
V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 51
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
manuscript of polyphony: 1472-91
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Capp. Sist. 51 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 554 x 414 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 90 compositions, 72 from 12 composers, 18 are anonymous. |
General Description
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
Watermarks in Parts I and II: (1) scales in circle; (2) crossbow in circle; (3) bull (see RothS for references to similar marks in various catalogues). Watermark in Part III: fleur-de-lis in circle.
Notation
black void mensural
Ruling
Staff height 27 in Parts I and II, c. 28 in Part III
Foliation
Modern stamped foliation, 1-215, on lower right rectos (excludes first and last flyleaves).
Decoration
Part I has illuminated miniatures and initials in red, blue, green, violet, and rose at beginning of each Mass; other folios have inked calligraphic initials. Part II has no initials or decoration. Part III has inked calligraphic initials decorated with human faces; painted initial on f. 196' includes coat of arms of Pope Innocent VIII (1432-92).
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s. 215ff. Papier, 555 x 405 mm. Foliotation moderne. Les ff. lv, 2, 5v, 6, 17v, 18, 36v, 37, 88v à 90, 122v, 123, 195v, 196, 215v sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 10-11 portées par p. Capitales enluminées or et coul. Reliure XVIIIe s.
Ms. de plusieurs mains compilé sous le pontificat d'Innocent VIII (1484-1492) dont les armes figurent au f. 196v.
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17 Masses, 1 Gloria, 6 Credos = 24
Basiron [Philippon]-1, Busnois-1, Caron-3, N. Clibano-2, Faugues-1 + 1?, Heyns/(Ockeghem)-1, Martini-2, (Obrecht)-1, Vaqueras-2, Vincenet-1, Weerbecke [Gaspar]-2, anon-6
ii + 214 + i paper folios, 554 x 414. Composite of several originally separate fascicles: Part I = new ff. 6-183; Part II = new ff. 2-5 + 183-195; Part III = new ff. 196-215. Modern stamped foliation, 1-215, on lower right rectos (excludes first and last flyleaves). 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.
Part I copied by one main scribe and one additional scribe; same scribes also wrote VatS 14 (RothS). Emendations in Part I by four other hands. Part II copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 178'-184 and ff. 200'-203 of VatS 35; this scribe entered music in VatS 51 on paper already ruled by scribes of Part I. Part III copied by a single scribe, who also wrote most of VatS 35 and ff. 186-186' of VatS 41 (RothS). Staff height 27 in Parts I and II, ca. 28 in Part III. Part I has illuminated miniatures and initials in red, blue, green, violet, and rose at beginning of each Mass; other folios have inked calligraphic initials. Part II has no initials or decoration. Part III has inked calligraphic initials decorated with human faces; painted initial on f. 196' includes coat of arms of Pope Innocent VIII (1432-92). Watermarks in Parts I and II: (1) scales in circle; (2) crossbow in circle; (3) bull (see RothS for references to similar marks in various catalogues). Watermark in Part III: fleur-de-lis in circle.
Part I: 1472-81, probably 1474; Parts II and III: ca. 1484-91 (RothS). Part I copied in Naples; probably brought to Rome in 1475, by chapel of Ferrante I, King of Naples, for presentation to papal chapel (RothS). Parts II and III copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina.
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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.
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, 479, 506-7, 518. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Strohm, Reinhard. 1985. Music in Late Medieval Bruges. Oxford. Pages: 142, 196. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Warburton, Thomas. 1983. Sicher's 'Johannes Zela zons plus': A Problem in Identity. Acta Musicologica, 55: 74-89. Pages: 79. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (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, 125-38. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (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, 87, 95-6, 154, 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 (partial); incipits (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fiedler, Eric F. 1979. Heinrich Finck, Gaspar van Weerbeke und die Göttin Venus: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Cantus-firmus-Praxis im frühen 16. Jahrhundert. Renaissance-Studien: Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 11. 29-55. Tutzing. Pages: 38, 40, 51-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (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, 6-7, 15-6, 50ff; II, xiv, 41-85. 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: x, xiv, 112-48. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial).
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, vi-ix, 138-64. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Wexler, Richard. 1974. The Complete Works of Johannes Prioris. . Pages: 40-l. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Davis, Bertran Earl. 1960. The Works of Johannes Vincenet. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, C, 7-11, 144, passim; II, 1-106. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Llorens Cisteró, José Maria. 1960. Capellae Sixtinae Codices. Vatican City. Pages: 72, 103-5, 488-9, Tab. VI. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipits (partial); facsimile (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: 103ff.
Schuetze, George C, Jr. 1960. The Works of Guillaume Faugues. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 11, 13, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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: 4, 47-84. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Schuetze, George C, Jr (editor). 1959. Opera Omnia Faugues. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 7. Brooklyn. Pages: iii, 21ff. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Smijers, Albert, and M van Crevel (editors). 1953-. Jacobus Obrecht, Opera Omnia. Amsterdam. Pages: I, fasc. 5, xxvii-xxix. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan (editor). 1947-. Johannes Ockeghem: Collected Works. American Musicological Society. Pages: II, xi, xxxiv, Plate XVI. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1929-. Das Chorwerk. Berlin/Wolfenbüttel. Pages: CXXIII. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Wolf, Johannes. 1908-21. Werken van Jacob Obrecht: Missen. Amsterdam und Leipzig. Pages: J. Wolf, in ObrechtMI I (5), p. XXVIII.
Haberl, Franz Xavier. 1885-88. Bausteine für Musikgeschichte. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II, 21.
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