DK-Kk MS Ny kongelige Samling 1848, 2°

Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1525

Archive Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark (DK-Kk)
Shelfmark MS Ny kongelige Samling 1848, 2°
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements c. 285 x 200 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: CopKB 1848
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • Lyons, France
Contents Contains 240 compositions, 84 from 39 composers, 156 are anonymous.
General Description

It was previously considered that the main scribe and compiler of the manuscript was a certain 'Charneyron,' whose name appears on pp. 356-357 and pp. 448-450; four additional scribal hands can be distinguished. Fallows (NJE vol. 28) argues instead that it is more likely Charneyron is the priest from near Lyons that was a later owner of the book.

Probably copied at Lyons (GlahnF). The manuscript was in the library of Jean-Baptiste Marduel in Lyons c. 1800; by 1833 it was in the Jesuit Library at Lyons. During the last decade of the century it passed into private hands. Purchased in 1921 by the Copenhagen library at a sale at Sotheby's, in London.

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Physical Description

Some of the folios are now bound in the wrong sequence. A few pieces originally on one opening are thus now found widely separated, S+T on one page and C+B several pages later: e.g. the songs on pp. 2 & 15, 392 & 411, 395 & 410, 400 & 405. The song on pp. 422 & 439 is arranged differently but with the same effect; as is the Inviolata setting beginning on p. 96 but continued on pp. 98-99 after an intervening piece. Similarly the two openings of the Magnificat beginning at p. 3 are pp. 3 & 16, 4 & 5.

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Binding

Modern pasteboard and parchment covers, with inscription 'Ancien accueil de Chansons … 1520' on spine. (The manuscript has been bound at least once before)

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Watermark

Eight different watermarks; the paper was produced at Lyons during the first quarter of the 16th century.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Modern pagination, 1-450 (the number '109' is used for three successive pages).

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Index

Modern index of the Latin pieces at end.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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3 Masses, 1 Kyrie-Gloria pair, 1 Sanctus-Agnus pair, 1 Kyrie, 1 Credo, 3 Mass Proper sections, 14 Magnificats, 2 psalms, 4 hymns, 1 Passion, 44 motets, 3 motet-chansons, 151 French secular pieces, 1 Flemish secular piece, 1 Spanish secular piece, 1 instrumental piece with Italian title, 23 textless pieces (of these, 1 Magnificat, 2 French secular pieces, and 8 German secular pieces have been identified from concordant sources) = 255 + 23 duplicates = 278

(Adam von Fulda)-1, A. Agricola [Alexandre]-7, A. Agricola/(Compère)-3, (A. Agricola/Fresneau)-1, (A. Agricola/Ghiselin/Obrecht)-1, (A. Agricola/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, Barbireau [Maistre Jaques Danvers]/(Isaac/Obrecht)-1, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Brumel/Venalt)-1, (Busnois/Compere/Mureau)-1, (Busnois/Ockeghem)-1, (Compere)-11, (Compere/Obrecht)-1, (Compere/Pietrequin)-1, Dulot-1, (A. Fevin)-3, (Fresneau)-1, (Fresneau/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Gascongne)-1, Ghiselin [Verbonet]-2, Haquinet-4, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Hesdin)-1, (Hesdin/Lupi)-1, Isaac-3, (Janequin)-3, (Janequin/Sermisy)-1, T. Janequin-1, Johannes de Sancto Martino-1, (Josquin)-2, (Le Heurteur?)-1, (Lhéritier)-1, Maioris-1, (Morton)-1, (Mouton/ Sermisy)-1, (Obrecht)-1, (Ockeghem)-3, (Prioris)-2, Richafort/(Compère/Ghiselin)-1, (Sermisy)-4, (Willaert)-1, anon-176. One uncertain attribution: the note "B", followed by three or four letters.

i + 226 + i paper folios, ca. 285 x 200. Modern pagination, 1-450 (the number "109" is used for three successive pages). Modern pasteboard and parchment covers, with inscription "Ancien accueil de Chansons … 1520" on spine. (The manuscript has been bound at least once before; some of the folios are now bound in the wrong sequence). Modern index of the Latin pieces at end. The main scribe and compiler of the manuscript was a certain "Charneyron," whose name appears on pp. 356-357 and pp. 448-450; four additional scribal hands can be distinguished. Eight different watermarks; the paper was produced at Lyons during the first quarter of the 16th century.

Ca. 1525 (Peter Woetmann Christoffersen). Probably copied at Lyons (GlahnF). The manuscript was in the library of Jean-Baptiste Marduel in Lyons ca. 1800; by 1833 it was in the Jesuit Library at Lyons. During the last decade of the century it passed into private hands. Purchased in 1921 by the Copenhagen library at a sale at Sotheby's, in London.

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Composers: Change "(A. Fevin)-3" to "(A. Févin)-4"; change "(Obrecht)-1" to "(Obrecht)-2"; change "Richafort/(Compère/Ghiselin)-1" to "Richafort/ (Compere)-1"; change "(Sermisy)-4" to "(Sermisy)-3"; add "(La Rue/Sermisy)-1"; change "anon-176" to "anon-174."

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‡ denotes primary source study

‡ Christoffersen, Peter Woetmann. 1994. French Music in the Early Sixteenth Century: Studies in the Music Collection of a Copyist of Lyons, the Manuscript Ny kgl. Samling 1848 2° in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. 3 vols. Museum Tusculanum Press; Københavns Universitet. Notes: description; contents list; concordances; transcriptions; discussion.

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: 185,208ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brown, Howard Mayer. 1983. A 'New' Chansonnier of the Early Sixteenth Century in the University Library of Uppsala: A Preliminary Report. Musica Disciplina, 37: 171-233. Pages: 172, 196-7,201-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2.  New York. Pages: xxiii,xxx-xxxi, 70-6.

Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1980. French Duos in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century. Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, , 43-87. Kassel, Basel, and London. Pages: 58-9. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Christoffersen, Peter Woetmann. 1979. 'Or Sus Vous Dormez Trop': The Singing of the Lark in French Chansons of the Early Sixteenth Century. Festskrift Henrik Glahn,  Copenhagen. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier.  New Haven and London. Pages: II, 155,311-3,321-2. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Winn, Mary Beth. 1979. Some Texts for Chansons by Loyset Compere. Musica Disciplina, 33: 43-54. Pages: 45-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fallows, David. 1977. Words and Music in two English Songs of the mid-15th Century: Charles d'Orléans and John Lydgate. Early Music, 5: 38-43. Pages: 42; A dissertation on the manuscript, by Peter Woetmann Christoffersen of Copenhagen, is in progress. We thank Mr. Christoffersen for his assistance in preparing the entry for this manuscript. Notes: concordances (partial).

Hudson, Barton (editor). 1977. Hayne van Ghizeghem: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 74.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii,xxii-xxiii,xxxiv,xxxvii-xlvii. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I,xxvii-xxviii,30-l ,59; II1,88-9. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Benthem, Jaap van. 1976. Josquin's Three-part 'Chansons rustiques': A Critique of the Readings in Manuscripts and Prints. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971,  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 422ff. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Adams, Courtney S. 1974. The Three-Part Chanson during the Sixteenth Century: Changes in Its Style and Importance. University of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 46-81,184-9,354ff,511-4,598-9,637-8,643-4. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Stevenson, Robert. 1973. The Toledo Manuscript Polyphonic Choirbooks and some other lost or little known Flemish Sources. Fontes Artis Musicae, 20: 87-107. Notes: concordances (partial).

Bellingham, Bruce Allan. 1971. The Bicinium in the Lutheran Latin Schools During the Reformation Period. University of Toronto, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 35-6; II, 162-72. Notes: mention of MS; transcription (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1970. Pierre de la Rue in Italien. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 27: 128-37. Pages: 131. Notes: concordances (partial).

Bridgman, Nanie. 1968. Chansons tant musicales que rustiques. Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, 2: 43-53. Notes: physical description (partial); incipits (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1967. Quellenkundliche Beiträge zum Werk von Johannes Ghiselin-Verbonnet. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 24: 120-32. Pages: 131-2. Notes: mention of MS.

Hewitt, Helen Margaret. 1966. A Chanson Rustique of the Early Renaissance: Bon temps. Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, 376-91. New York. Pages: 378ff. 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: 141. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Picker, Martin. 1965. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Pages: 140-52. Notes: concordances (partial).

Finscher, Ludwig. 1964. Loyset Compere: Life and Works. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 12.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 46-52. Notes: concordances (partial).

Lerner, Edward R (editor). 1961-70. Alexandrí Agricola: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 22.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: IV, xiv-xvi, 47; V, viii-ff, 46-7, 53. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial).

Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 359-60. Notes: physical description (partial); concordances (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. Pages: 231-59. Notes: concordances (partial).

Glahn, Henrik. 1958-9. Et Fransk Musikhåndskrift fra Begyndeisen af det 16. Århundrede. Fund og Forskning, 5-6: 90-109. Notes: physical description; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

Kabis, Mary Elise. 1957. The Works of Jean Richafort, Renaissance Composer (1480?-c. 1548). New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 19, passim. Notes: concordances (partial); mention of MS.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1956. A Postscript to 'The "Second" Chansonnier of the Biblioteca Riccardiana'. Annales Musicologiques, 4: 261-5. Notes: physical description (partial); concordances (partial).

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Benjamin Ory

Saturday, 12 October, 2024

p. 181 - incorrect duplication of Sermisy's "Jouyssance" fixed

Christian Jarhult

Monday, 20 July, 2020

Status of 'Charneyron' updated to reflect suggestion in Fallows NJE vol. 28 that he was not the compiler but an early owner of the ms.

Carlo Bosi

Monday, 29 June, 2020

Peter Woetmann Christoffersen's comprehensive 3-volume study added to the bibliography

Edward Wickham

Wednesday, 27 February, 2019

Ny kongelige Samling 1848, 2°: added motet Ave virgo Katherina @ 109bis. Also added link to online images provided by Royal Library..

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Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description