Main corpus copied by two scribes (ff. 1-64 and ff. 64'-247, respectively); five or six other scribes made later additions (HudNS). Copied in Rome, possibly for use at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
V-CVbav MS S. Maria Maggiore 26
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1516-20
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS S. Maria Maggiore 26 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 540 x 420 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 93 compositions, 71 from 10 composers, 22 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some folios damaged by ink corrosion, but most music still legible
Binding
Original leather covers, with brass clasps; paper slip pasted to spine bears inscription 'Liber missarum in cantu figurato Jusquini.'
Watermark
(1) anchor (not in Briquet); (2) anchor in circle, with six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (3) generally resembles Briquet #6096, but smaller.
Notation
black void mensural
Date
Ca. 1516-20 (RothS), with additions to ca. 1550
Ruling
Staff height 24
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-283, on lower center rectos.
Decoration
Painted initials and inked calligraphic initials, some decorated with grotesque faces
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVIe s. 283ff. Papier, 540 x 415 mm. Foliotation ancienne en haut des ff., le plus souvent rognée. Foliotation moderne au bas des ff. Les ff. 1, 213v, 214, 229v, 230, 265r-v, 283v sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 10 portées par p. Capitales ornées à la plume avec figures et armes du roi de France. Reliure ancienne cuir estampé, bouillons de cuivre portant au dos sur une collette: «Liber missarum in cantu figurato Jusquini.»
Dans ce ms. de plusieurs mains (on en distingue 7 sinon 8, dont 2 principales), on peut d'après le répertoire distinguer 2 sections: I.- Nos 1 à 15, constituant le corps du ms. avec 15 messes copiées par 2 scribes: scribe A, ff. 1 à 64; scribe B, ff. 64v à 247. Répertoire franco-flamand. Ecriture cursive gothique française. Copie effectuée vraisemblablement vers 1520 ou peu après. II.- Nos 16 à 24, moins homogène avec un répertoire liturgique plus varié, copié sans plan préétabli par plusieurs scribes (dont quelques amateurs à l'écriture peu soignée) entre ca. 1530 et 1550, la messe de Crecquillon (no 25) n'ayant guère pu être connue en Italie avant cette dernière date. Or, c'est certainement dans ce pays que le ms. a été compilé, probablement à Rome par des scribes français. L'encre ayant rongé le papier, le ms. est malheureusement en voie de détérioration rapide.
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16 Masses, 2 Credos, 1 Te Deum, 3 hymns, 1 motet = 23
(Brumel)-3, (Brumel/Josquin)-1, (Busnois)-1, (Crecquillon)-1, (A. Févin)-2, (Josquin)-3, (Josquin/Moulu)-1, (Obrecht)-1, (Pipelare)-1, (Weerbecke)-2, anon-7
i + 283 paper folios, 540 x 420. Some folios damaged by ink corrosion, but most music still legible. Modern pencil foliation, 1-283, on lower center rectos. Original leather covers, with brass clasps; paper slip pasted to spine bears inscription "Liber missarum in cantu figurato Jusquini." No index. Main corpus copied by two scribes (ff. 1-64 and ff. 64'-247, respectively); five or six other scribes made later additions (HudNS). Staff height 24. Painted initials and inked calligraphic initials, some decorated with grotesque faces. Water-marks: (1) anchor (not in Briquet); (2) anchor in circle, with six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (3) generally resembles Briquet #6096, but smaller.
Ca. 1516-20 (RothS), with additions to ca. 1550 (HudNS). Copied in Rome, possibly for use at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.
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Brown, Howard Mayer (editor). 1983. A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. VII. Chicago and London. Pages: 196, 264. 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: 209-10, 258, 349, 373, 392. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hudson, Barton. 1976. A Neglected Source of Renaissance Polyphony: Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore JJ. III. 4. Acta Musicologica, 48: 166-80. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Lowinsky, Edward E. 1976. Problems in Editing the Music of Josquin des Prez: A Critique of the First Edition and Proposals for the Second Edition [Symposium]. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 723-54. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 735. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Crawford, David Eugene. 1975. Sixteenth Century Choirbooks in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato. RMS, vol. 2. American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 56, 116 [incorrectly referred to as VatSM 32]. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 162. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); incipits (partial).
Croll, Gerhard. 1952. Ein wenig bekanntes Chorbuch des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz der Vatikanischen Bibliothek. Sammlung Musikwissenschaftlicher Aufsätze: Herrn Professor Dr. Rudolf Gerber ... überreicht von seinem Doktoranden, Göttingen. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: P. Kast, in MGG 11, col. 768.
Smijers, Albert, Myroslaw Antonowycz, and Willem Elders (editors). 1925 - . Werken van Josquin des Prés: Wereldlijke Werken (1925); Missen (1931). Leipzig/ Amsterdam. Pages: L. Lockwood, in Josquin, 735.
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