D-LEu MS 1494 (Apel Codex)

Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig, Germany

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1490-1504

Archive Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig, Germany (D-LEu)
Shelfmark MS 1494 (Apel Codex)
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 315 x 210 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: LeipU 1494
Notations
  • black void mensural
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  • Leipzig? Bavaria, Germany
Contents Contains 120 compositions, 50 from 23 composers, 70 are anonymous.
General Description

Copied by two or three principal scribes and 11-12 additional scribes, one of whom also copied ff. 253-254' of BerlS 40021 and ff. 151'-155', 158'160, and 161'-162. Some texts added (by Nikolaus Apel?) on inside front cover and f. 1 after manuscript was bound; dates associated with these additions (ranging from 1506 to 1519) are only dates in manuscript. Manuscript related to BerlS 40021 and WarU 2016.

Many pieces without text in this source, but identified from concordant sources; count of textless pieces in summary of contents includes only works for which no texts could be found in other sources.

Possibly copied in Leipzig. According to inscription inside back cover, manuscript was bound in Leipzig on September 1, 1504, at the behest of Nikolaus Apel (ca. 1470-1537). Apel came to Leipzig in 1492 as a student at the university; he later became a member of the faculty and served for a time as chancellor. The precise nature of Apel's relationship to the manuscript, other than his responsibility for its binding, has not been established. Apel was perhaps responsible for compiling the music, may have commissioned the work of the various scribes, and presumably played a role in the transmission of the manuscript to the Universitätsbibliothek.

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Binding

Original covers of wooden boards partially covered with tooled leather; defective metal clasps. Inscription on spine: 'Mensura.'

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Watermark

Identified watermarks include Briquet #14553, #14873, #15167, and #15357; unidentified watermarks (reproduced in EDMR XXXIV, 423-5) include several ox head/serpent marks, a steeple with crown, and a human head with star.

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Notation

black void mensural; a few pieces in Gothic chant

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation on upper right rectos, 1-260; original ink foliation on lower right rectos (missing on some folios), [al], a2, a3, … y6 (fascicle letters with folio numbers for each fascicle; letters 'u' and 'w' not used).

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Decoration

no decoration.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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8 Masses, 2 Kyries, 1 Credo fragment, 1 Agnus, 8 Mass Proper sections, 3 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 5 psalms, 47 office hymns, 4 processional hymns, 46 motets, 2 responses, 5 German sacred pieces, 2 motet-chansons, 5 German secular pieces, 2 Italian secular pieces, 21 textless pieces = 163 + 15 duplicates = 178

Adam von Fulda-11 + 1?, (A. Agricola?)-1, (A. Agricola/Isaac)-1, Aulenus(?)*/(A. Agricola/Cuvenor)-1, B.H. [probably not Balthasar Harzer]-2, (Busnois)-1, (Caron/Dusart)-1, (Compère)-1, Finck-9 + 4?, Flordigal-1, (G.F.)-1, Ghiselin [Verbenet]-1, Isaac-8, (Jacobit)-1, (Josquin)-1, (Obrecht)-2, Paulus de Broda-1, Paumann? [C von p.]-1, Ranlequin de Mol-1, Rud. H.(?)-1, Rupsch-1, Schmelzer? [M.S.]-1, (Weerbecke)-2, anon-107

*inscription "Offe. Auleni" appears over Mass on ff. 151-156; discussion of possible identity of composer in JustM.

260 paper folios, 315 x 210. Modern pencil foliation on upper right rectos, 1-260; original ink foliation on lower right rectos (missing on some folios), [al], a2, a3, … y6 (fascicle letters with folio numbers for each fascicle; letters "u" and "w" not used). Original covers of wooden boards partially covered with tooled leather; defective metal clasps. Inscription on spine: "Mensura." No index. White mensural notation, except for a few pieces in Gothic chant notation. Copied by two or three principal scribes and 11-12 additional scribes, one of whom also copied ff. 253-254' of BerlS 40021 and ff. 151'-155', 158'160, and 161'-162; no other decoration.

Some texts added (by Nikolaus Apel?) on inside front cover and f. 1 after manuscript was bound; dates associated with these additions (ranging from 1506 to 1519) are only dates in manuscript. Identified watermarks include Briquet #14553, #14873, #15167, and #15357; unidentified watermarks (reproduced in EDMR XXXIV, 423-5) include several ox head/serpent marks, a steeple with crown, and a human head with star. Manuscript related to BerlS 40021 and WarU 2016. Many pieces without text in this source, but identified from concordant sources; count of textless pieces in summary of contents includes only works for which no texts could be found in other sources.

Ca. 1490-1504. Possibly copied in Leipzig. According to inscription inside back cover, manuscript was bound in Leipzig on September 1, 1504, at the behest of Nikolaus Apel (ca. 1470-1537). Apel came to Leipzig in 1492 as a student at the university; he later became a member of the faculty and served for a time as chancellor. The precise nature of Apel's relationship to the manuscript, other than his responsibility for its binding, has not been established. Apel was perhaps responsible for compiling the music, may have commissioned the work of the various scribes, and presumably played a role in the transmission of the manuscript to the Universitätsbibliothek.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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‡ denotes primary source study

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: 133-4, 188, 211-2, 264, 293. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Martin, Martin. 1981. Bemerkungen zu den kleinen Folio-Handschriften deutscher Provenienz um 1500. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 25-43. Munich. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ward, Tom Robert. 1979. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from 1400 to 1520: A Descriptive Inventory. RMS, vol. 3.  American Institute of Musicology. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Seay, Albert. 1978. Review of EDMR XXXII-XXXIV [edition of LeipU 1494]. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 31: 517-21. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Wernli, Andreas. 1978. Review of EDMR XXXII-XXXIV [edition of LeipU 1494]. Die Musikforschung, 31: 233-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I, xxviii, 29, 32, 64-9, 83-4; III, 13, 38, 69-70, 86. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ward, Tom Robert. 1977. Review of JustM. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30: 524-31. Pages: 529. Notes: mention of MS.

Ferer, Mary Tiffany. 1976. The Feast of St. John the Baptist: Its Background and Celebration in Renaissance Polyphony. University of Illinois, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 116, 118, 123, 137-9, 318. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Just, Martin. 1975. Der Mensuralkodex Mus. ms. 40021 der Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin: Untersuchungen zum Repertoire einer deutschen Quelle des 15. Jahrhunderts. Würzburger Musikhistorische Beitrage, vol. 1.  Tutzing. Pages: I, 113-8, passim; II, 47ff, 151. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ruhland, Konrad. 1975. Der Mehrstimmige Psalmvortrag im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Psalmodie auf der Grundlage von Faburdon, Fauxbourdon und Falsobordone. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich), Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 230-71. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Staehelin, Martin. 1975. Obrechtiana. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 25/1: 1-37. Pages: 18-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ward, Tom Robert. 1969. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from the Late Fourteenth Century Until the Early Sixteenth Century. University of Pittsburgh, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 137-49, 158-60, 226ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 64-5, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Crane, Frederick. 1968. Materials for the Study of the Fifteenth Century Basse Danse. Musicological Studies, vol. 16.  Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: 19, 75. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

‡ Gerber, Rudolf, Ludwig Finscher, and Wolfgang Dömling (editors). 1956-1975. Der Mensuralkodex des Nikolaus Apel (MS. 1494 der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig). Das Erbe Deutscher Musik, vol. 32-34. 3 vols. Kassel etc.

Smijers, Albert, and M van Crevel (editors). 1953-. Jacobus Obrecht, Opera Omnia.  Amsterdam. Pages: I, fasc. 5, xxvii-xxix. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: I, 560-3; II, 1339; VI, 1023; VIII, 576. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gerber, Rudolf. 1937. Die Hymnen des Apelschen Kodex (Mus. Ms. 1494 der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig). Festschrift Arnold Schering Zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, 76-89. Berlin. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ehmann, Wilhelm. 1936. Adam von Fulda als Vertreter der ersten deutschen Komponistengeneration.  Berlin. Pages: 22-41, passim musical supplement, 9-14, 19-24. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: XXV, 78, v; XXXII-XXXIV, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1929-. Das Chorwerk.  Berlin/Wolfenbüttel. Pages: XXXI; XXXII, 3, 10-2, 14-6, 19-23. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: I, 402-4. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).

Niemann, W. 1902. Studien zur deutschen Musikgeschichte des XV. Jahrhunderts. Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 17: 1-46. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Riemann, Hugo. 1897. Der Mensural-Codex des Magister Nikolaus Apel von Königshofen (Codex MS. 1494 der Leipziger-Universitätsbibliothek). Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 12: 1-23. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); inventory; facsimile (partial).

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: XXVIII, 172, passim; LXXII, 101. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

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