V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 197

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1492-5

Archive	Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Rome, Italy (V-CVbav)
Shelfmark	MS Capp. Sist. 197
Image Availability	DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability.
Surface	Paper
Numbering System	Foliation
Measurements	505 x 418 mm
Other Identifiers	RISM: I-Rvat 197 CCM: VatS 197 olim (Former shelfmark): I-Rvat MS Capp. Sist. 197
Notations	black void mensural
Copyists	scribal concordance [6] (perhaps Josquin or de Orto?) Music ? Orto, Marbrianus de Music ? Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Music
Relationships	Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) (copied at)
External Links	CMME online edition images
External Authorities	RISM Online (sources/857000175)
Provenance	Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) , Rome, Italy
Contents	5 pieces from 1 composers

General Description

Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 10'-12 and ff. 38-48 of VatS 15, ff. 204'-206 of VatS 35, and ff. 50'-54', 185', and 187 of VatS 41 (SherrPM). Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina.

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Binding

Covers of cream-colored parchment probably date from 18th century

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Watermark

Watermark not identifiable (SherrPC).

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 15

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Foliation

Original ink foliation, [1]-12, on lower right rectos

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Decoration

. Ink and watercolor initials in calligraphic style, decorated with human faces, animals, and floral tracery; miniature of knight with sword slaying dragon (f. 10') presumably inspired by title of Mass ('L'homme armé').

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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

XVIe s. 12ff. papier, 505 x 418 mm. Foliotation ancienne au bas des ff. Les ff. 1 et 12v sont vides. Notation mesurée blanche. 11 portées par p. Initiales ornées avec au f. 10v l'effigie de l'Homme armé attaquant un dragon.

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1 Mass

Josquin

12 paper folios, 505 x 418. Original ink foliation, [1]-12, on lower right rectos. Covers of cream-colored parchment probably date from 18th century. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote ff. 10'-12 and ff. 38-48 of VatS 15, ff. 204'-206 of VatS 35, and ff. 50'-54', 185', and 187 of VatS 41 (SherrPM). Staff height 15. Ink and watercolor initials in calligraphic style, decorated with human faces, animals, and floral tracery; miniature of knight with sword slaying dragon (f. 10') presumably inspired by title of Mass ("L'homme armé"). Watermark not identifiable (SherrPC).

Ca. 1492-5 (SherrPM). Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Sistina.

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
1v–2	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Kyrie	JOSQUIN	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Kyrie Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Appears on: 1v–2 Genres: Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary Source Attribution: JOSQUIN Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin, Greek Voice Text: [Missa l'homme armé super voces musicales] Kyrie General Note Au T du Christe et du Credo: On a fait partout crierAu T de l'Osanna: Gaude cum gaudentibus Au Sup. de l'Agnus II: Clama ne cessesAu T de l'Agnus II: Noli me tangere Publ. cf. Bsp XXXI n° 13
2v–4	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Gloria	-	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Gloria Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 2v–4 Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
4v–7	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]	-	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 4v–7 Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
7v–9	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Sanctus & Benedictus	-	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Sanctus & Benedictus Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 7v–9 Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
9v–12	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Agnus Dei	-	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Agnus Dei Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 9v–12 Genres: Agnus Dei, Mass Ordinary

Composer	Compositions
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Agnus Dei – 9v–12 Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Gloria – 2v–4 (?) Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Kyrie – 1v–2 Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] – 4v–7 Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Sanctus & Benedictus – 7v–9

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Agnus Dei	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	9v–12
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Gloria	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	2v–4
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Kyrie	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?)	1v–2
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	4v–7
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales 6.3: Sanctus & Benedictus	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	7v–9

‡ denotes primary source study

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

Roth, Adalbert. 1998. Liturgical (and Paraliturgical) Music in the Papal Chapel towards the End of the Fifteenth Century: A Repertory in Embryo. Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome, edited by Adalbert Roth, 125-37. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Sherr, Richard Jonathan. 1996. Papal Music Manuscripts in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances.

Dean, Jeffrey J. 1984. The Scribes of the Sistine Chapel 1501-1527. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 285. Notes: contents list; 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: 242. Notes: contents list; discussion.

Sherr, Richard Jonathan. 1975. The Papal Chapel ca. 1492-1513 and Its Polyphonic Sources. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 66, 191-2. Notes: contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.

Llorens Cisteró, José Maria. 1960. Capellae Sistinae Codices musicis notis instructi sive manu scripti sive praelo excussi. Studi e testi. Città del Vaticano. Pages: 213. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Smijers, Albert (editor). 1927-56. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Missen. Amsterdam. Pages: I, x-xxiv. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances.

Haberl, Franz Xavier. 1885-88. Bausteine für Musikgeschichte. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II, 48f.

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

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