Copied by one main scribe (ff. 1-64) and three additional scribes (ff. 64'-66, 66'-67, and 67' respectively). Copied in France, possibly in Loire Valley region (GutiérrW). Originally 80 folios.
D-W Cod. Guelf. 287 Extrav. (Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1461-5
| Archive | Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (D-W) |
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| Shelfmark | Cod. Guelf. 287 Extrav. (Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier) |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 148 x 104 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 57 compositions, 36 from 19 composers, 21 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Portions of new f. 1 torn away
Binding
Rebound in 1957 in modern covers of white leather; remnants of original covers still preserved in separate envelope
Liminary Note
Inscription 'Philyppe St. Symons'(?) on f. 69 may refer to 16th/17th-century owner.
Notation
black void mensural
Date
Ca. 1461-5, with one addition in 1480's (GutiérrW).
Foliation
Modern ink foliation, 1-69, on upper right rectos (one folio between 6/7 not numbered).
Decoration
Illuminated initials in gold, red, brown, blue, green, and yellow incorporate fanciful representations of human figures, grotesque faces, animals, etc. By the same hand as those in CopKB 291.
Surface
i paper + 70 parchment
DIAMM Note
Inventory supplied by Jane Alden, 2011
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 motet (incomplete), 54 French secular pieces (1 incomplete), 1 Italian secular piece = 56
(Barbingant/Ockeghem)-1, (Basiron)-3, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable)-1, (Binchois)-1, (Binchois/Dufay)-1, (Binchois/Frye)-1, (Busnois)-3, (Busnois/Caron)-1, (Busnois/Ockeghem)-2, (Carón)-1, (Convert)-1, (Dufay)-5, (Dux Burgensis)-1, (Frye)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Michelet)-1, (Morton)-2, (Ockeghem)-4, (Phillipet de Pres)-1, (Prioris)-1, anon-22
i paper + 70 parchment folios of an original 80, 148 x 104. Portions of new f. 1 torn away. Modern ink foliation, 1-69, on upper right rectos (one folio between 6/7 not numbered). Rebound in 1957 in modern covers of white leather; remnants of original covers still preserved in separate envelope. No index. Copied by one main scribe (ff. 1-64) and three additional scribes (ff. 64'-66, 66'-67, and 67' respectively). Illuminated initials in gold, red, brown, blue, green, and yellow incorporate fanciful representations of human figures, grotesque faces, animals, etc.
Ca. 1461-5, with one addition in 1480's (GutiérrW). Copied in France, possibly in Loire Valley region (GutiérrW). Inscription "Philyppe St. Symons"(?) on f. 69 may refer to 16th/17th-century owner.
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D-W Cod. Guelf. 287 Extrav. (Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier)
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Alden, Jane. 2011. Songs, Scribes, and Society; The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers. New York: OUP.
Goldberg, Clemens. 1997. Das Chansonnier Laborde - Studien zur Intertextualität einer Liederhandschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt: Lang.
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Gutiérrez-Denhoff, Martella. 1985. Der Wolfenbütteler Chansonnier Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Codex Guelf. 287 Extrav.: Untersuchungen zu Repertoire und Überlieferung einer Musikhandschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts und ihres Umkreises. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 29. Wiesbaden. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Staehelin, Martin. 1985. Musikalischer Lustgarten: Kostbare Zeugnisse der Musikgeschichte. Pages: 38-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fallows, David. 1984. Johannes Ockeghem: The changing image, the songs and a new source. Early Music, 12: 218-30. Pages: 223-5, 228-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; 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: 143, 198, 210, 240, 290-1, 299, 305, 307-8, Plate XXXIV. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Keahey, Thomas Herman, and Conrad Edward Mary Douglas (editors). 1982-85. Johannes Prioris: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 90. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: III, xv, 96-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii-xxv, 11-2, 70-85. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1981. Conflicting Attributions in Italian Sources of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson, c. 1465-c. 1505: A Progress Report on a New Hypothesis. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, Cambridge. Pages: 269-71. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Hortschansky, Klaus. 1981. Notationsgewohnheiten in den burgundischen Chansonniers des 15. Jahrhunderts. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 9-22. Munich. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: I, 15, 19; II, 183, 198ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gore, Glenn Leon. 1978. The Works of Philippe Basiron (Philippon?): Transcription and Commentary. West Virginia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 21-2, 101-4 II, xv, xvii-xviii, 165-8, 172-4; Edition by Martella Gutiérrez-Denhoff in preparation (to appear in MDM). Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pope, Isabel, and Masakata Kanazawa (editors). 1978. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Musk of the Late Fifteenth Century. Oxford. Pages: 552, 569-70, 590-1, 605-8, 611-2, 615-6, 637-9, 644. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schavran, Henrietta. 1978. The Manuscript Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Codice Aldini 362: A Study of Song Tradition in Italy Circa 1440-1480. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 49, 66-8, 82ff, 332-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hudson, Barton (editor). 1977. Hayne van Ghizeghem: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 74. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii-xviii, xxvii, xxxvii-xxxviii. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Perkins, Leeman L. 1976. Toward a Rational Approach to Text Placement in the Secular Music of Dufay's Time. Papers read at the Duf ay Quincentenary Conference, Brooklyn College, December 6-7, 1974, 102-14;152-63. Brooklyn. Pages: 103-4, 152. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Thompson, James (editor). 1976. Les Oeuvres Completes de Philippe (?) Caron. Transcription et Notes Critiques de James Thomson. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: II, ii-iii, x-xii, 167-9, 175-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I, 97ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Trowbridge, Lynn Mason. 1971. The Burgundian Chanson: An Index and Analysis of Incipits by Application of Electronic Data Processing. University of Illinois, Unpublished Master's thesis. Pages: 12-7, 78-81, 104, 106. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Douglas, Conrad Edward Mary. 1969. The motets of Johannes Prioris with a prefatory bio-bibliographical study. University of Illinois, Ph.D. Dissertation. Pages: 55. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Heinemann, Otto von. 1963-. Kataloge der Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. 15 (to date) vols. Frankfurt am Main. Pages: XV, 148-9. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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: I, 376. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Schmitz, Arnold (editor). 1955-. Musikalische Denkmäler. Mainz. Pages: II, 54, 63-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: II, 515-6; XIV, 810-l. Notes: physical description; facsimile (partial).
de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud (editor). 1927. New York, 1965 (reprint, with new remarks by the editor). Der Kopenhagener Chansonnier: Das Manuskript Thott 291s der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhagen. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Pages: xvii-ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Droz, Eugénie, Geneviève Thibault, and Y Rokseth (editors). 1927. Trois Chansonniers Français du XV Siècle. Paris. Pages: xiii-xviii, Plate VI. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
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