A Discantus partbook from a set of five volumes. Copied by one scribe, probably Melchior Kugelmann. Twelve of the pieces are dedicatory works for various members of the Danish court at Copenhagen and the Prussian court at Königsberg. Probably copied at the Danish court in Copenhagen, for Princess Dorothea, daughter of Frederick I and sister to Christian III, who married Duke Albert of Prussia in 1525. The manuscript was once in the Herzogliche Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel; it later belonged to the French scholar F. L. Perne (1772-1832), and then to F. J. Fétis (it bore the number '1433' in the catalogue of his library). The Bibliothèque Royale acquired the manuscript from the Fétis collection.
B-Br MS II.3843 [Discantus]
KBR (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque royale), Brussels, Belgium
partbook: 1540-7
| Archive | KBR (Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque royale), Brussels, Belgium (B-Br) |
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| Shelfmark | MS II.3843 [Discantus] |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Format | landscape |
| Measurements | 50 x 75 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 25 compositions, 17 from 8 composers, 8 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of tooled leather, with voice designations, medallions, and floral designs. The cassette in which the books are kept has a picture of Princess Dorothea, wife of Duke Albert of Prussia, with the inscription: 'V(on) G(ottes) G(naden) Dorothea).'
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Other numberings: original numbering of pieces in all books.
Foliation
foliation excludes an unspecified number of blank folios at the end of each book. New pagination in DAT
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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16 German sacred pieces, 9 German secular pieces = 25
(Isaac)-1, (J. Kugelmann)-1, (M. Kugelmann)-5 + 2?, (Senfl)-5, (Sporer)-1, (Stoltzer)-1, (Willaert)-1, anon-8
5 paper partbooks (D-19 folios, A-21, T-70, B-20, Q-19), 50 x 75. (The count of folios does not include a number of blank folios at the end of each book). New pagination in DAT; original numbering of pieces in all books. Original covers of tooled leather, with voice designations, medallions, and floral designs. No index. Copied by one scribe, probably Melchior Kugelmann. The cassette in which the books are kept has a picture of Princess Dorothea, wife of Duke Albert of Prussia, with the inscription: "V(on) G(ottes) G(naden) Dorothea)." Twelve of the pieces are dedicatory works for various members of the Danish court at Copenhagen and the Prussian court at Königsberg.
1540-7 (GlahnNK). Probably copied at the Danish court in Copenhagen, for Princess Dorothea, daughter of Frederick I and sister to Christian III, who married Duke Albert of Prussia in 1525. The manuscript was once in the Herzogliche Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel; it later belonged to the French scholar F. L. Perne (1772-1832), and then to F. J. Fétis (it bore the number "1433" in the catalogue of his library). The Bibliothèque Royale acquired the manuscript from the Fétis collection.
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MS II.3843
Partbooks · 5 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Glahn, Henrik. 1961. En ny kilde til belysning af det preussiske hofkapels repertoire på Hertug Albrechts tid. Svensk Tidskrift för Musikforskning, 43: 145-61. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); facsimile (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud (editor). 1933-. Dania Sonans. Copenhagen, Leipzig, and Egtved. Pages: IV,30, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Benjamin Ory
Monday, 28 July, 2025
The "Von Gottes gnad rad und wunderthat" (#4) in this manuscript is not the same piece as appears in DK-Kk MS Gamle kongelige Samling 1872, 4° [I] (same text, but different notes). Compositions separated.
Benjamin Ory
Monday, 28 July, 2025
image link added
DIAMM, 2016
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Notation 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