H-Bn MS lat.534

Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Széchényi Library), Budapest, Hungary

fragment: Early 15th century; c. 1437-40 (Zelliger)

Archive Országos Széchényi Könyvtár (National Széchényi Library), Budapest, Hungary (H-Bn)
Shelfmark MS lat.534
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Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Measurements Ca. 280 x 195; Ca. 190 x 160 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: BudOSM 534
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • square
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Relationships
Provenance
  • Szepes, Hungary
Contents 18 pieces from 2 composers
General Description

Text of one piece is in German, Hungarian, Polish, and Czech. From the Szepes area of medieval Hungary (today part of Czechoslovakia). Belonged in 15th century to a Dominican convent at Kosice (= Kassa = Kaschau). Subsequently used as binding for a book printed c. 1480 in Germany, but probably bound in Hungary. Manuscript was recovered by B. Rajeczky, L. Dobszay, and J. Szendrei after book was purchased and restored by the library in 1969.

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Notation

Square and Black mensural

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Decoration

red and gold initials

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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20 motets (some incomplete)

Anonymous

4 paper folios, ca. 280 x 195, and 2 paper half-folios, ca. 190 x 160. Gothic and black mensural notation; red and gold initials. Text of one piece is in German, Hungarian, Polish, and Czech.

Early 15th century. From the Szepes area of medieval Hungary (today part of Czechoslovakia). Belonged in 15th century to a Dominican convent at Kosice (= Kassa = Kaschau). Subsequently used as binding for a book printed ca. 1480 in Germany, but probably bound in Hungary. Manuscript was recovered by B. Rajeczky, L. Dobszay, and J. Szendrei after book was purchased and restored by the library in 1969.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] Exordium quadruplate / Nates Dei / Concrepet infanti / Verbum caro factum est - Anonymous
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Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Exordium quadruplate/Nates dei/Concrepti infanti/Verbum caro factum est
[-] Consurge vox et carmina - Anonymous
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Genres: Cantio
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Consurge vox et carmina
[-] ... factis et doctrinis - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ... factis et doctrinis
[-] Novus annus adiit in quo Christus prodiit - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Cantio
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Novus annus adiit in quo Christus prodiit
[-] Paraclitus egrediens (=Paranymphus adiit) - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Contrafactum
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Paraclitus egrediens
[-] Deus in adjutorium meum intende - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Cantio
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Deus in adiutorium meum intende
[-] Surrexit Christus hodie - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Surrexit Christus hodie
[-] Surrexit Christus hodie - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Surrexit Christus hodie
[-] Nunc mystice - Anonymous

Nunc mystice

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Nunc mystice
[-] Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria
[-] Nicolai solemnia sua familia - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Nicolai solemnia sua familia
[-] O pastor aeterne - Anonymous

O pastor aeterne

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O pastor aeterne
[-] Procedentem sponsum de thalamo... Benedicamus Domino - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Benedicamus Domino, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Procedentem sponsum de thalamo... Benedicamus domino
[-] Praesulem ephebeatum trabeatum radiatum / Salvatoris pisticus stirpe tu eugenius / Hiis denegans tue nutum anime / Atque nimis denegans saporis -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Canonic
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Praesulem ephebeatum trabeatum radiatum/Salvatoris pisticus stirpe tu eugenius/Hiis denegans tue nutum anime/Atque nimis denegans saporis
[-] O beata nobis grata - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: O beata nobis grata
[-] Maria tu candida - Anonymous

Maria tu candida

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Maria tu candida
[-] Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
[-] Compangant omnes - Anonymous

Compangant omnes

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Cantio

denotes primary source study

Gancarczyk, Pawel. 2020. Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe: Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources. Disiecta Membra: Studies in Musical Fragmentology, Studies in Manuscript Cultures. 165-182. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Pages: 168-9, 172-4. Notes: description; facsimile (partial); contents.

Zelliger, Erzsebet. 2006. Az első magyar nyelvű népének és művelődéstörténeti háttere: a Zsigmond-kori Húsvét népének keletkezésének körülményei, nyelvi kérdései (The first Hungarian-speaking people and their cultural background). 89. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. Pages: 7. Notes: dating of ms.

Rajeczky, Benjamin. 1972. Ein neuer Fund zur mehrstimmigen Praxis Ungarns im 15. Jahrhundert. Studia Musicologica, 147-68. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

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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