A single Altus partbook. Copied in Rome. Once owned by Raffaele Casimiri (1880-1943); bequeathed to present library by Casimiri. Discovered in 1972 by Alexander Silbiger among uncatalogued items of Casimiri collection; present call number assigned in 1972.
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Vat. Mus. 571 |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 180 x 240 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 58 compositions, 30 from 15 composers, 28 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Covers of grey-brown cardboard.
Watermark
(1) column?; (2) resembles Briquet #12438 and #12440 (SilbU).
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation on upper right rectos, 1-36, excludes front flyleaf; modern stamped foliation on lower right rectos, 1-37.
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVIe s. 37ff. Papier, 180 x 243 mm. Une 1ère foliotation en haut des ff., ne tenant pas compte du f. limin.: 1-36, a été suivie d'une foliotation imprimée au bas de tous les ff.: 1-37. Dans la fol. ancienne, le f. limin., les ff. 6v, 10v, 11, 18, 28v, 36v sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 6 portées par p. Petites capitales ornées à la plume. Rehure carton gris-beige portant inscrit à l'encre: ALTUS et ΗΡAΚλΗσ. Partie d'Altus seul'.
Ms. légué à la Bibl. Vaticane en 1943 avec toute la bibliothèque musicale de Raffaele Casimiri (1880-1943), mais dont on ne connaît pas l'origine. Il est l'oeuvre de plusieurs scribes car on distingue à peu près 11 styles d'écriture, du gothique élégant avec notes losangées et initiales ornées, à la cursive rapide, avec notes arrondies et pas de capitales. Le ms. ne portant aucun nom d'auteurs, ceux-ci ont été rétablis d'après des concordances avec d'autres sources datant des environs de 1530, toujours postérieures à 1515 et le plus souvent italiennes. Il ne s'agit pas d'un ms. d'apparat, mais comme le suggère Silbiger, d'un recueil destiné à l'usage d'une chapelle privée vraisemblablement d'Italie, les pièces religieuses l'emportant avec 35 motets sur les pièces profanes qui (sauf 2 en latin, nos 17 et 27) sont toutes en italien. La copie a peut-être été exécutée par les chanteurs de cette chapelle dont quelques-uns des noms pourraient être ceux qui figurent au v du f. limin. et dont aucun n'est d'ailleurs jusqu'à présent connu.
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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35 motets, 4 Italian secular pieces, 2 Latin secular pieces, 1 textless piece = 42
(Eustachius de Monte Regali)-1, (C. Festa)-2 + 1?, (Gascongne/Mouton)-1, (Josquin/Lebrun/Richafort)-1, (Josquin/Mouton/Willaert)-1, (Le Santier)-1, (Lhéritier)-2, (T. Martini)-1, (Moulu)-1, (Mouton)-2, (Obrecht/Willaert)-1, (Richafort)-3, (Richafort/Verdelot)-1, (Willaert)-3, anon-20
1 paper partbook (A-i + 36 folios), 180 x 240. Modern pencil foliation on upper right rectos, 1-36, excludes front flyleaf; modern stamped foliation on lower right rectos, 1-37. Covers of gray-brown cardboard. No index. Copied by eleven scribes (SilbU). Inked calligraphic initials. Watermarks: (1) column?; (2) resembles Briquet #12438 and #12440 (SilbU).
Ca. 1520-30 (SilbU). Copied in Rome. Once owned by Raffaele Casimiri (1880-1943); bequeathed to present library by Casimiri. Discovered in 1972 by Alexander Silbiger among uncatalogued items of Casimiri collection; present call number assigned in 1972.
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Dean, Jeffrey J. 1984. The Scribes of the Sistine Chapel 1501-1527. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 177-81. Notes: facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fenlon, Iain, and James Haar. 1980. A New Source for the Early Madrigal. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 33: 164-80. Pages: 174, 176. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Sternfeld, Frederick W. 1980. Aspects of Echo Music in the Renaissance. Studi Musicali, 9: 45-57. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Silbiger, Alexander. 1977. An Unknown Partbook of Early Sixteenth Century Polyphony. Studi Musicali, 6: 43-67. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.
Constant, John George. 1975. Renaissance Manuscripts of Polyphony at the Cathedral of Padua. University of Michigan, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 72-3, 83-4, 116-7, 120. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Crawford, David Eugene. 1975. Sixteenth Century Choirbooks in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato. RMS, vol. 2. American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 70-1, 129-30, 133, 135, 147, 166-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Main, Alexander, and Albert Seay (editors). 1962-. Costanza Festa: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 25. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V, xix. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Edward Tambling
Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
First item is by Jean Mouton (as found in RISM 1543/5).
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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