RUS-KA MS 1968

Former Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Russian Federation

manuscript of polyphony: After 1543

Archive Former Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Russian Federation (RUS-KA)
Shelfmark MS 1968
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Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Measurements 392 x 275 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: KönSU 1968
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Pb 6
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • Kaliningrad (Königsberg)? Bavaria, Germany
Contents Contains 1 uninventoried works or miscellaneous sections.
General Description

Only 59 folios have music; remainder have blank staves. The compiler, scribe, and original owner was Matthias Krüger. Acquired c. 1569 by Duke Albrecht of Prussia (bookplate). Ducal library later incorporated into Staatsbibliothek in Königsberg.

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Binding

Original covers of tooled leather, similar to covers of KönSU 1740; remnants of clasps.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Date

After 1543 (LogeM).

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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3 Masses, 6 Kyries, 2 Te Deums, 3 motets, 5 sets of responses =19

Stoltzer/(T. Wüst)-1, anon-18

227 paper folios, 392 x 275. Only 59 folios have music; remainder have blank staves. Original covers of tooled leather, similar to covers of KönSU 1740; remnants of clasps. Copied by Matthias Krüger (LogeM); see general index for other manuscripts attributed to the same scribe.

After 1543 (LogeM). Possibly copied in Königsberg, but origin elsewhere in East Prussia also possible (see LogeM). The compiler, scribe, and original owner was Matthias Krüger. Acquired ca. 1569 by Duke Albrecht of Prussia (bookplate). Ducal library later incorporated into Staatsbibliothek in Königsberg.

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Known composers

Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages Item title Attribution in Source
Works by
Wust, T (?)
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denotes primary source study

Moorefield, Arthur Albert. None. An Introduction to Johannes Galliculus. Musicological Studies.  Brooklyn. Pages: 78. Notes: mention of MS.

Windh, John Ernfrid. 1971. Early Lutheran Masses. University of Illinois, Unpublished D.M.A. thesis. Pages: 140-l. Notes: physical description (partial).

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 140. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial).

Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Lothar. 1964. Thomas Stoltzer: Leben und Schaffen. Die Musik in Alten und Neuen Europa.  Kassel. Pages: 167, 171, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Finscher, Ludwig. 1962. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Königsberger Hofkapelle. Musik des Ostens, 165-89. Pages: 174-5. Notes: mention of MS.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: II, 1349-50. Notes: physical description (partial).

Albrecht, Hans. 1948. Zwei Quellen zur deutschen Musikgeschichte der Reformationszeit. Die Musikforschung, 242ff. Pages: 264. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: XXII, 85-6. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Loge, Eckhard. 1931. Eine Messen- und Motettenhandschrift des Kantors Matthias Krüger aus der Musikbibliothek Herzog Albrechts von Preussen. Königsberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft.  Kassel. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Müller-Blattau, Joseph. 1924. Die musikalischen Schätze der Staatsund Universitätsbibliothek zu Königsberg i. Pr. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 215-39. Pages: 222-4. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date 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