Main scribe is Netherlands court scribe C or scribe with similar hand, but not Petrus Alamire (KellJ); Warmington labels this scribe C6 (KellmanTO). Ff. 47'-48 copied by Netherlands court scribe X (WarmMC); Warmington later re-attributed the music (but not text) to scribe X1 (KellmanTO). Copied in Brussels/Mechlin (PickCA); belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ).
B-Br MS 228 (Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria)
KBR (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque royale), Brussels, Belgium
manuscript of polyphony: 1516-23
| Archive | KBR (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque royale), Brussels, Belgium (B-Br) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 228 (Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria) |
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| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 365 x 260 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 58 compositions, 38 from 15 composers, 20 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Modern leather covers.
Notation
black void mensural
Date
1516-23, with portions added no earlier than 1519 (PickCA)
Foliation
Modern foliation
Decoration
Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style (the decoration may have been done by Gerard Horenbout or his workshop — PickCA); there are also some painted initials and inked calligraphic initials.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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7 motets, 8 motet-chansons, 39 French secular pieces, 3 Latin secular pieces, 1 Flemish secular piece = 58
(A. Agricola)-3, (A. Agricola/Brumel)-1, (A. Agricola/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Compère)-3, (Compère/Obrecht)-1, Josquin-4, (Josquin/La Rue)-1, (La Rue)-13, (La Rue/Obrecht)-1, (La Rue/Pipelare)-1, (La Rue/Verdelot)-1, (Ockeghem)-1, (Orto)-1, (Prioris)-1, (Strus)-1, (Weerbecke)-1, anon-23
73 parchment folios, 365 x 260. Modern foliation. Blank folios: 2'-3, 35'-36, 49'-50, 68'-73'. Modern leather covers. No index. Main scribe is Netherlands court scribe C or scribe with similar hand, but not Petrus Alamire (KellJ). Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style (the decoration may have been done by Gerard Horenbout or his workshop — PickCA); painted initials and inked calligraphic initials.
1516-23, with portions added no earlier than 1519 (PickCA). Copied in Brussels/Mechlin (PickCA); belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ).
Vol. 4
Physical: Copied mostly by Netherlands court scribe C' (KellBP); ff. 47'-48 copied by Netherlands court scribe X (WarmMC); see general index for other manuscripts attributed to the same scribes.
Date: 1516-23, probably ca. 1516-9 (KellBP); before March 1516 (WarmMC).
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B-Br MS 228 (Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria)
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Meconi, Honey. 2010. Margaret of Austria, Visual Representation, and Brussels, Royal Library, Ms. 228. Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 2: 11–36 and 129–130.
Kellman, Herbert (editor). 1999. The Treasury of Petrus Alamire. Music and art in Flemish Court Manuscripts 1500-1535. Leuven: Alamire Foundation.
Kellman, Herbert. 1989. Observations on the Production and Distribution of Music Manuscripts at the Netherlands Court. Early Music History, 9: . Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial); facsimile (partial).
Jonas, Luise. 1983. Das Augsburger Liederbuch: Die Musikhandschrift 2° Codex 142a der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Edition und Kommentar. Berliner Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, vol. Band 21 (2 vols.) . Munich and Salzburg. Pages: II,7-8, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Warmington, Flynn. 1982. A Master Calligrapher in Alamire's Workshop: The Chronology of His Work. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November, 1982, . Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Picker, Martin. 1978. Josquin and Jean Lemaire: Four Chansons Reexamined. Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore, 447-56. Florence. Pages: 449-51. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Jeffery, Brian. 1976. The Literary Texts of Josquin's Chansons. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 401-420. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 417-8. Notes: mention of MS.
Kellman, Herbert. 1976. Josquin and the Courts of the Netherlands and France: The Evidence of the Sources. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 181-216. London, New York, and Toronto. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial).
Staehelin, Martin. 1970. Pierre de la Rue in Italien. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 27: 128-37. Pages: 128, 131, 133. Notes: concordances (partial).
Hudson, Barton (editor). 1969-72. Antoine Brumel: Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 5. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI, xxvi, 74-6. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial).
Smijers, Albert, Myroslaw Antonowycz, and Willem Elders (editors). 1969. Werken van Josquin des Prés: Supplement. Amsterdam. Pages: 66-72. Notes: transcription (partial).
Douglas, Conrad Edward Mary. 1969. The motets of Johannes Prioris with a prefatory bio-bibliographical study. University of Illinois, Ph.D. Dissertation. Pages: 91. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Swing, Peter Gram. 1969. Parody and Form in Five Polyphonic Masses by Mathieu Gascongne. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 625-9,651 -60. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Benthem, Jaap van. 1968-70. Die Chanson Entré je suis à 4 von Josquin des Prez und ihre Überlieferung. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 21: 203-10. Notes: mention of MS.
Böker-Heil, Norbert. 1967. Die Motetten von Philippe Verdelot. Frankfurt am Main. Pages: 246, 272. Notes: mention of MS; concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Huys, Bernard. 1966. De Grégoire le Grand à Stockhausen: Douze siècles de notation musicale. Brussels. Pages: 35-7. Notes: physical description; additional bibliography (partial).
Kenney, Sylvia W. 1966. In Praise of the Lauda. Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, 489-99. New York. Pages: 489-90. Notes: mention of MS.
Picker, Martin. 1965. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list; concordances; transcription; texts; facsimile (partial); additional bibliography.
Picker, Martin. 1960. Three Unidentified Chansons by Pierre de la Rue in the Album de Marguerite d'Autriche. The Musical Quarterly, 46: 329-43. Notes: physical description; concordances (partial); transcription (partial).
Picker, Martin. 1958-63. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: MSS. 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels. Annales Musicologiques, 6: 145-287. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); additional bibliography.
Finscher, Ludwig (editor). 1958-. Loyset Compere: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 15. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V, [v]. Notes: facsimile (partial).
Kellman, Herbert. 1958. The Origins of the Chigi Codex: The Date, Provenance, and Original Ownership of Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana, Chigiana, C. VIII. 234. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 11: 6-19. Pages: 18. Notes: mention of MS.
Robijns, Jozef. 1954. Pierre de la Rue (Circa 1460-1518): Een Bio-Bibliographische Studie. Brussels. Pages: 35, passim. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Closson, Ernest, and Charles van den Borren. 1950. La musique en Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours. Brussels. Pages: 96, passim. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: VII, 206; XIII, 237-8. Notes: facsimile (partial).
Reese, Gustave. 1948-49. Maldeghem and His Buried Treasure: A Bibliographical Study. Notes, 6: 75-117. Pages: 82, 87ff. Notes: mention of MS.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 105, following 42. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
Boom, Ghislaine de. 1935. Marguerite d'Autriche-Savoie et la Pre-Renaissance. Paris and Brussels. Pages: 124, passim. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Françon, Marcel. 1934. Albums poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 32, passim. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; texts; facsimile (partial).
Borren, Charles van den. 1933-34. Inventaire des manuscrits de musique polyphonique qui se trouvent en Belgique. Acta Musicologica, 5 & 6: V:66-71,120-7,177-83;VI:23-9,65-73,116-21. Pages: V, 120-5. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial).
Lenaerts, René Bernard. 1933. Het Nederlands Polifonies Lied in de Zestiende Eeuw. Amsterdam. Pages: 14, 86-7. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; contents list (partial).
Smijers, Albert (editor). 1925-68. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Wereldlijke Werken. Amsterdam. Pages: I, vi. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial).
Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 447. Notes: mention of MS.
Verheyden, Prosper. 1904. Het Gezangboek van Margaretha van Oostenrijk. Tijdschrift voor Boek- en Bibliotheekwezen, 2: 22-32,74-84. Pages: 79-82. Notes: mention of MS.
Maldeghem, R-J van. 1865-93. Tresor musical: collection authentique de musique sacrée & profane des anciens maîtres belges ... Musique profane. Brussels. Pages: XIII, XX-XXIV. Notes: transcription (partial).
Gachet, Emile Leonard Jean Baptiste. 1849. Albums et oeuvres poétiques de Marguerite d'Autriche ... publiés en entier ... d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Publications de la Société des Bibliophiles Belges séant à Mons, vol. 17. Brussels. Pages: 71-95. Notes: transcriptions.
Marchai, J. None. Catalogue des manuscrits de La Bibliothèque Royale des ducs de Bourgogne. Pages: I, cx, 5. Notes: mention of MS.
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Lyudmila Sundukova
Friday, 1 April, 2022
La Rue's authorship of the opening motet is identified in H. Vanhulst "Un fragment inconnu d’un livre de chœur de Pierre Alamire".
Christian Jarhult
Monday, 21 September, 2020
The "Fama malum" at 31v-32r in this source seems not to be that by Josquin. It seems closer to the setting in D-Mbs Mus. MS 1516
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description