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A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15496

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien (Vienna), Austria

manuscript of polyphony: 1515-6

Archive	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien (Vienna), Austria (A-Wn)
Shelfmark	Mus.Hs. 15496
Surface	Parchment
Numbering System	Foliation
Measurements	515 x 365 mm
Other Identifiers	CCM: VienNB Mus. 15496 olim (Former shelfmark): Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum MS 5261; Series nova 2661
Notations	black void mensural
Copyists	? Alamire, Petrus (ca. 1470–1536) Music scribal concordance [24], Alamire C Text and Music scribal concordance [33], Alamire X1 Music scribal concordance [36], Alamire C3 Text
Relationships	Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum in Vienna (owner) Schloss Ambras (owner) Charles II (1540–1590) (commissioned/made for)
External Links	online library entry linked to images (Digitalisat)
External Authorities	RISM Online (sources/600100331)
Provenance	Brussels, Belgium
Contents	7 pieces from 2 composers

General Description

Copied by Netherlands court scribe Petrus Alamire (KellJ); Warmington however distinguishes the music scribe C with text by C3; some music possibly by X1, texted by C (KellmanTO). Copied in Brussels/Mechlin; belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ). Probably prepared for Charles, Archduke of Austria. Once in Schloss Ambras near Innsbruck. Transferred to Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum in Vienna in 1806; passed to Nationalbibliothek in 1936.

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Binding

Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with blind-tooled lozenge design; remnants of brass clasps

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Notation

black void mensural

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Ruling

Staff height 23

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-118

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Decoration

Miniatures illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style; painted initials and inked calligraphic initials, some decorated with grotesques. Miniatures include heraldic emblems associated with Charles, Archduke of Austria, and Emperor Maximilian I.

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Surface

parchment

Oscar Verhaar, for the medieval music manuscript project of the National Library Vienna (www.cantusplanus.at), 2014

Census Catalogue of Music Description

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7 Masses

La Rue-6, La Rue/(Josquin)-l

118 parchment folios, 515 x 365. Modern pencil foliation, 1-118. Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with blind-tooled lozenge design; remnants of brass clasps. No index. Copied by Netherlands court scribe Petrus Alamire (KellJ); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Staff height 23. Miniatures illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style; painted initials and inked calligraphic initials, some decorated with grotesques. Miniatures include heraldic emblems associated with Charles, Archduke of Austria, and Emperor Maximilian I.

1515-6 (KellBP). Copied in Brussels/Mechlin; belongs to Netherlands court complex (KellJ). Probably prepared for Charles, Archduke of Austria. Once in Schloss Ambras near Innsbruck. Transferred to Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum in Vienna in 1806; passed to Nationalbibliothek in 1936.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
1v–17	Missa Alleluia a 5	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Alleluia a 5 Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 1v–17 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Missa Alleluia (a 5)
18v–35	Missa Sancta Anna [with elevation motet 'O salutaris hostia']	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Sancta Anna [with elevation motet 'O salutaris hostia'] Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 18v–35 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Missa de Sanct Anna
36v–50	Missa Ave Maria	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Ave Maria Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 36v–50 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Missa Ave Maria
51v–66	Missa Inviolata	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Inviolata Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 51v–66 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin, Greek Voice Text: Missa Inviolata
67v–81	Missa Sancto Job	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Sancto Job Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 67v–81 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Missa de sancto Job
82v–99	Missa Sub tuum praesidium = Missa Quarti toni 4.5	-	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Sub tuum praesidium = Missa Quarti toni 4.5 Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 82v–99 Genres: Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin, Greek Voice Text: Missa Sub tuum presidium
100v–118	Missa Sancta cruce (a 5)	-	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Missa Sancta cruce (a 5) Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518) Appears on: 100v–118 Genres: Agnus Dei, Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Gloria (et in terra pax), Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Missa de Sancta cruce (a 5)

Composer	Compositions
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	(?) Missa Sub tuum praesidium = Missa Quarti toni 4.5 – 82v–99
Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	Missa Alleluia a 5 – 1v–17 Missa Ave Maria – 36v–50 Missa Inviolata – 51v–66 Missa Sancta Anna [with elevation motet 'O salutaris hostia'] – 18v–35 Missa Sancta cruce (a 5) – 100v–118 Missa Sancto Job – 67v–81 Missa Sub tuum praesidium = Missa Quarti toni 4.5 – 82v–99

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Missa Alleluia a 5	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	1v–17
Missa Ave Maria	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	36v–50
Missa Inviolata	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	51v–66
Missa Sancta Anna [with elevation motet 'O salutaris hostia']	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	18v–35
Missa Sancta cruce (a 5)	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	100v–118
Missa Sancto Job	Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	67v–81
Missa Sub tuum praesidium = Missa Quarti toni 4.5	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)	82v–99

Set: Books prepared by the Alamire workshop

Type: Linked by Origin or Contents

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A-Wn Cod. 4809 Han

A-Wn Cod. 4810 Han

A-Wn Cod. 11778 Han

A-Wn Cod. 11883 Han

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15495 (Maximilian Codex)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15496

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15497

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 (B)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 (Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 15941 Mus (T)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Altus/Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Bassus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Superius/Cantus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Tenor 1)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18746 (Tenor 2/Quintus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Bassus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Contratenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Discantus)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18825 (Tenor)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18832 (Lower Voice)

A-Wn Mus.Hs. 18832 (Upper Voice)

B-Amp MS M18.13 (fragment 1)

B-Amp MS M18.13 (fragment 2)

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B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 5170

B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 9423

B-Baeb Fonds Sint-Goedele, 9424

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B-Br MS 215-216

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B-Br MS 228 (Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria)

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B-Br MS IV.922 (Occo Codex)

B-Gra Varia D.3360 B

B-TOsa Oud regime MS 183

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D-Mbs Mus. MS 6

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D-Mbs Mus. MS 7

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D-Mbs Mus. MS 34

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D-Mbs Mus. MS F

GB-Lbl Royal 8 G. vii

GB-Ob MS. Ashmole 831

GB-Ob MS. Lat. liturg. a. 8

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I-Fc MS Basevi 2439 (Basevi Codex)

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I-VEc MS DCCLVI

NL-SHbhic MS 153

NL-SHbhic MS 154

NL-SHbhic MS 155

NL-Urc Hs. 47 (fragments 1 and 2)

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 34

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 36

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V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 160

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1976

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1977

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1978

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V-CVbav MS Pal. lat. 1979

‡ denotes primary source study

van der Heide, Klaas. 2019. How Many Paths Must a Choirbook Tread Before it Reaches the Pope? Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 47-70. Notes: Discusses appearance of the royal Hungarian coat of arms in this and other manuscripts.

Kellman, Herbert (editor). 1999. The Treasury of Petrus Alamire. Music and art in Flemish Court Manuscripts 1500-1535. Leuven: Alamire Foundation.

Kellman, Herbert. 1989. Observations on the Production and Distribution of Music Manuscripts at the Netherlands Court. Early Music History, . Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Kellman, Herbert. 1976. Josquin and the Courts of the Netherlands and France: The Evidence of the Sources. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 181-216. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 209. Notes: mention of MS.

Kreider, John Evan. 1974. The Masses for Five and Six Voices by Pierre de la Rue. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 17-9. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Mazal, Otto, and Franz Unterkircher. 1963-. Katalog der Abendländischen Handschriften der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek: "Series Nova" (Neuerwerbungen). Vienna. Pages: II/l, 337-8. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Unterkircher, Franz. 1962. Manuscrits et Livres Imprimés Concernant L'Histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600. Biblos-Schrifien. Brussels. Pages: 69. Notes: physical description.

Lenaerts, René Bernard (editor). 1960. Drie Missen van Pierre de La Rue. Monumenta Musicae Belgicae. <em>NederlandsePolyfonieuitspannseBronnen</em>MonumentaMusicaeBelgicaeVol.IX(1963). Berchem-Antwerpen. Pages: VIII,x,49-72. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Unterkircher, Franz. 1957-9. Inventar der Illuminierten Handschriften, Inkunabeln und Frühdrucke der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Vienna. Pages: I, 177; II,137. Notes: physical description.

Robijns, Jozef. 1954. Pierre de la Rue (Circa 1460-1518): Een Bio-Bibliographische Studie. Brussels. Pages: 45-6,155ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: VIII, Tafel 8. Notes: facsimile (partial).

Waagen, G F. 1867. Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien. Manuscripte mit Miniaturen, Handzeichnungen und Kupferstiche. Vienna. Pages: 368-9. Notes: physical description (partial).

Sacken, Eduard Freih, von. 1855. Die K. K. Ambraser-Sammlung. Vienna. Pages: II,203-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Primisser, Alois. 1819. Die kaiserlich-königliche Ambraser-Sammlung. Vienna. Pages: 260-l. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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