Part of an Altus partbook. from a set originally of five volumes. Copied by Jean Michel, a copyist at the Este court in Ferrara (RifNL). Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as 'Codex DCCCXXXVI' (RifNL). Copied in Ferrara, for use at the court of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Subsequent history of ownership unknown until 19th century. Purchased by British Museum from P. Rolandi in 1853.
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 19583 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 140 x 216 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 39 compositions, 38 from 17 composers, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
New covers of red cloth on cardboard.
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original foliation scratched out; new pencil foliation, 1-48.
Decoration
Inked calligraphic initials.
Surface
iv paper + 48 parchment + iv paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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26 motets, 4 French secular pieces = 30
(Bauldeweyn)-1, (Brunet)-1, Carpentras-1, Divitis-1, C. Festa-1, Gascongne-1, Gauvain-1, Jhan of Ferrara [Mre. Jan]-3, Josquin-3, La Rue-1, Lafage-1, T. Martini-1, (Moulu)-1, Mouton-3, Richafort-7, Silva [Andreas]-1, Willaert-1, anon-1
Portion of 1 partbook of an original 5 (A-iv paper + 48 parchment + iv paper folios), 140 x 216. Another portion of A book now ParisBNN 4599 (RifNL); portions of T and B books now ModE F.2.29 (LowMCE); D and Q books apparently lost. Original foliation scratched out; new pencil foliation, 1-48. New covers of red cloth on cardboard. No index. The scribe was Jean Michel, a copyist at the Este court in Ferrara (RifNL); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Inked calligraphic initials. Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as "Codex DCCCXXXVI" (RifNL).
Ca. 1535 (Rifkin). Copied in Ferrara, for use at the court of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Subsequent history of ownership unknown until 19th century. Purchased by British Museum from P. Rolandi in 1853.
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Ferrara partbooks
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Lockwood, Lewis Henry. 1979. Jean Mouton and Jean Michel: New Evidence on French Music and Musicians in Italy, 1505-1520. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 32: 191-246. Pages: 217, 233-4. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Nowacki, Edward. 1979. The Latin Psalm Motet 1500-1535. Renaissance-Studien: Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 11. 159-84. Tutzing. Pages: 163, 175-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Rifkin, Joshua. 1974. New Light on Music Manuscripts at the Court of Ferrara in the Reigns of Alfonso I and Hercules II. Paper presented at the New England Renaissance Conference at Durham, New Hampshire, October 26, 1974, . Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1973. La Courone et fleur des chansons a troys; A Mirror of the French Chanson in Italy in the Years between Ottaviano Petrucci and Antonio Gardano. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 1-68. Pages: 19-22. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Lowinsky, Edward E (editor). 1968. The Medici Codex of 1518: A Choirbook of Motets Dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. III-V. Chicago. Pages: III, 117-8, 135ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Braithwaite, James Roland. 1967. The Introduction of Franco-Netherlandish Manuscripts to Early Tudor England: The Motet Repertory. Boston University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 50-l, passim; II, 5-6, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 244, 261-2; II, 128. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten. Amsterdam. Pages: VIII, vi; X, iv. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial).
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1848-53], 256. Notes: physical description (partial).
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