First part of an originally larger manuscript, from which several gatherings have been lost; WashLC M6 is another portion of same manuscript. Copied by a single scribe. Copied in northern Italy (RifNR); copied in Florence (JepFR, StaeFMH). Ff. 1-2 bear several inscriptions of 16th- or 17th-century owners: Santa Trinità Benedictine abbey in Vallombrosa, 'Fausto Bandinelli,' 'Fr. Salustio,' and 'Alberto Duro Intagliatore' (see StaeFMH, 64 for discussion of last inscription). Owned in 19th century by Nicola Benvenuti of Pisa, then by French composer and scholar Adrien Lenoir de La Fage. By the time of La Fage's ownership, some gatherings of original manuscript were already lost, and remaining folios had been separated into two sections, which were sold to different buyers at La Fage's death in 1862. One section now WashLC M6; other (present) section acquired by British Museum from Boies Penrose II of Philadelphia, through firm of Quaritch, in 1931.
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Egerton 3051 |
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| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 178 x 128 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 53 compositions, 22 from 8 composers, 31 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Modern gold-tooled covers of red morocco leather
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original(?) ink foliation, i-lxi; modern pencil foliation, 1-61.
Decoration
No initials; voice designations in red or blue ink; folios are gilt-edged.
Surface
ni paper + i parchment + 61 parchment + i parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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52 Italian secular pieces, 1 Latin/Italian secular piece = 53 (some without text, or with text incipits only)
(Ana)-4, (Ana/Tromboncino)-1, (N. Brocco)-1, (Cara)-2, (G. Fogliano)-2, (Josquin)-l, (L.C.)-l, (Lurano)-8, (Lurano/ Tromboncino)-1, (Tromboncino)^, anon-27
ni paper + i parchment + 61 parchment + i parchment folios, 178 x 128. First part of an originally larger manuscript, from which several gatherings have been lost; WashLC M6 is another portion of same manuscript. Original(?) ink foliation, i-lxi; modern pencil foliation, 1-61. Modern gold-tooled covers of red morocco leather. No index. Copied by a single scribe. No initials; voice designations in red or blue ink; folios are gilt-edged.
Ca. 1500 (StaeFMH). Copied in northern Italy (RifNR); copied in Florence (JepFR, StaeFMH). Ff. 1-2 bear several inscriptions of 16th- or 17th-century owners: Santa Trinità Benedictine abbey in Vallombrosa, "Fausto Bandinelli," "Fr. Salustio," and "Alberto Duro Intagliatore" (see StaeFMH, 64 for discussion of last inscription). Owned in 19th century by Nicola Benvenuti of Pisa, then by French composer and scholar Adrien Lenoir de La Fage. By the time of La Fage's ownership, some gatherings of original manuscript were already lost, and remaining folios had been separated into two sections, which were sold to different buyers at La Fage's death in 1862. One section now WashLC M6; other (present) section acquired by British Museum from Boies Penrose II of Philadelphia, through firm of Quaritch, in 1931.
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Sets
Egerton/Wolffheim chansonnier
Fragments of a whole · 2 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III. Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I,xxix,62. Notes: physical description.
Staehelin, Martin. 1972. Eine Florentiner Musik-Handschrift aus der Zeit um 1500: Quellenkundliche Bemerkungen zur Frottola-Sammlung Ms. Egerton 3051 des British Museum und zum 'Wolffheim-Manuskript' der Library of Congress. Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 1: 55-81. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Rifkin, Joshua. 1971. A 'New' Renaissance Manuscript. Paper read at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, held at Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., 1971, . Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Willetts, Pamela J. 1970. Handlist of Music Manuscripts aquired 1908-1967. Pages: 72. Notes: mention of MS.
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II,xxviii,65-7,154-7, passim; III,163ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Ferand, Ernst T. 1941. Two Unknown Frottole. Musica Disciplina, 27: 319-28. Pages: 326-327. Notes: mention of MS; transcription (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud. 1939. Über einige unbekannte Frottolenhandschriften. Acta Musicologica, 11: 81-114. Pages: 81-8, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.
Schofield, Bertram. 1931-2. Early Italian Songs. The British Museum Quarterly, 6: 51-2. Notes: physical description (partial).
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1931-5], 298-9. Notes: physical description.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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