Copied by two main scribes, one of whom also wrote portions of MilD 2 (HalpM); later additions by Franchino Gafori, who also wrote ParmP 1158 and made additions in MilD 2, MilD 3, and MilD 4. Many anonymous pieces probably by Gafori. Copied in Milan, for use by the cathedral choir; prepared under direction of Franchino Gafori, maestro di cappella from 1484 until his death in 1522.
I-Mfd MS 2269 (Librone 1)
Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, Sezione Musicale, Milano, Italy
choirbook: Late 15th century
| Archive | Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, Sezione Musicale, Milano, Italy (I-Mfd) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 2269 (Librone 1) |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 645 x 456 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 169 compositions, 113 from 10 composers, 56 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Paper manuscript; fols. III (modern flyleaves), 189, III’ (modern flyleaves). During the 2019 restoration, two paper folders have been inserted after fly-leaf III and before flyleaf I’ respectively, in order to house the original parchment pastedowns of the front and back cover, detached during a previous restoration. The manuscript consists of 189 folios; the foliation, written by Gaffurius himself on the upper right margin of each recto in Arabic numbers (1–188), skips the first folio; a modern hand has marked the latter in pencil ‘1ra’ on the upper right corner of the recto and ‘2va’, a few centimetres lower in the upper left margin on the ver-so. The format is ‘in plano’: 645 × 456 mm; all gatherings have reinforcing strips, since the bifolia were obtained by pasting together two large-format leaves.The gatherings are as follows: 1–13 (8), 14 (6), 15 (8), 16 (7), 18–24 (8). They are most-ly regular quaternions, with the exception of no. 14 (fols. 104–9), a ternion, and no. 16 (fols. 118–24), a quaternion in which the first leaf of the internal bifolium is missing (between fols. 120 and 121). The paper shows no watermark but is of two types: one thinner, smoother, and slightly bigger (which underwent substantial trimming on the upper margin), the other thicker and rougher. The first paper type is used in gatherings 1 and 5–15, the second one in gatherings 2–4 and 16–24. Corresponding to the different paper type is a different preparation of the page and writing block (Pantarotto 2021).
Binding
Modern covers of tooled leather
Watermark
None visible
Liminary Note
Inscription on recto of first parchment folio: "Liber capelle ecclesie maioris milani factus opera et solicitudine franchini Gaffori laudensis prefecti prefate capelle impensa vero venerabilis fabrice dicte ecclesie anno domini MCCCCLXXXX die 23 Junii."
Notation
Black void mensural notation
Foliation
Original foliation, 1-188, beginning on second paper folio
Decoration
Illuminated miniature of Milan Cathedral on verso of first (unnumbered) paper folio. Some inked ornamental initials
Index
Portions of original index on parchment folio
Surface
iii modern flyleaves + 189 paper + iii modern flyleaves
RISM Description
RISM
XVe s. (1490). 2ff. limin. parchemin + 189ff. Papier, 638 x 462 mm. Foliotation ancienne: 1-188. Le 1er f. est n. ch., les ff. 5v à 7 sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 12 portées par p. Au 2e f. parchemin, table incomplète du ms. Initiales ornées n. et rouge. Dans l'initiale du 1er f. n. ch., Stemma de la Fabbrica del Duomo.
Au 1er f. parchemin, on trouve la date du ms.: «Liber capelle ecclesie maioris Mediolani factus opera et solicitudine Franchini Gaffori laudensis prefecti prefate capelle impensa vero Ven. fabrice dicte ecclesie anno domini MCCCCLXXXX die 23 Junii.» Ce ms. contient 6 cycles de motetti missales: nos 57 (1-4), 86 (1-8), 87 (1-9), 88 (1-3).
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Sanctus, 23 Magnificats, 4 Magnificat sections, 1 Te Deum, 7 hymns, 104 motets (some arranged in cycles, as substitutes for Mass sections), 2 textless pieces = 142 + 1 duplicate = 143
Binchois-1, Compère [Loyset]-23, (Compère?)-1, (Dufay)-1 + 1?, Gafori-46 + 7?, Giliardi [Arnulfus]-1, Martini-2, (Pullois)-1, Weerbecke [Gaspar]-19, anon-39
ii parchment + 189 paper + ii paper folios, 635 x 450. Original foliation, 1-188, beginning on second paper folio. Modern covers of tooled leather. Portions of original index on verso of second parchment folio. Copied by three scribes, including Franchino Gafori (JepG), who also copied ParmC 1158; scribal concordances with MilD 2, MilD 3, and MilD 4. Illuminated miniature of Milan Cathedral on verso of first (unnumbered) paper folio. Some inked ornamental initials. Inscription on recto of first parchment folio: "Liber capelle ecclesie maioris milani factus opera et solicitudine franchini Gaffori laudensis prefecti prefate capelle impensa vero venerabilis fabrice diete ecclesie anno domini MCCCCLXXXX die 23 Junii." No watermarks visible. Many anonymous pieces probably by Gafori.
Ca. 1484-90. Copied in Milan, for use by the cathedral choir; prepared under direction of Franchino Gafori, maestro di cappella from 1484 until his death in 1522.
Vol 4
Contents: 23 Magnificats, 4 Magnificat sections, 1 Te Deum, 7 hymns, 99 motets (1 incomplete; many arranged in cycles as substitutes for Mass sections), 2 litanies, 2 Benedicamus dominos, 2 textless pieces =140+1 duplicate = 141
Composers: Binchois-1, Compère [Loyset]-25 + 1?, (Compère/Gafori)-1, (Dufay)-l + 1?, Gafori-48 + 9?, Giliardi [ArnulfusJ-1, Martini-2, (Pullois)-1, Weerbecke [Gaspar]-19, anon-30
Physical: Copied by two main scribes, one of whom also wrote portions of MilD 2 (HalpM); later additions by Franchino Gafori, who also wrote ParmP 1158 and made additions in MilD 2, MilD 3, and MilD 4.
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Mss. 2266-9 (Libroni 1-4)
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Filippi, Daniele V (editor). 2024. Loyset Compère. Ave, virgo gloriosa (Galeazescha): A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Filippi, Daniele V (editor). 2024. Ave, Domine Iesu Christe : A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni, Attributed to Loyset Compère. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Cassia, Cristina (editor). 2023. Franchinus Gaffurius. Salve, mater Salvatoris : A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Cassia, Cristina (editor). 2023. Gaspar van Weerbeke. Quam pulchra es : A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Filippi, Daniele V (editor). 2023. Loyset Compère. Hodie nobis de virgine : A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Pavanello, Agnese (editor). 2023. Gaspar van Weerbeke. Ave, mundi domina : A Motetti Missales Cycle from the Milanese Libroni. Middleton (Wisconsin): A-R Editions.
Filippi, Daniele V. 2021b. Gaffurius's Paratexts: Notes on the Indexes of Libroni 1-3. Reopening Gaffurius's Libroni, edited by Daniele V. Filippi, 165-179. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Filippi, Daniele V. 2021a. The Making and the Dating of the Gaffurius Codices: Archival Evidence and Research Perspectives. Reopening Gaffurius's Libroni, edited by Daniele V. Filippi, 3-58. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana. [Filippi 2021a].
Cassia, Cristina. 2021. Gaffurius at the Mirror: The Internal Concordances of the Libroni. Reopening Gaffurius's Libroni, edited by Cristina Cassia, 181-215. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Pantarotto, Martina. 2021. ‘Scripsi et notavi’: Scribes, Notators, and Calligraphers in the Workshop of the Gaffurius Codices. Reopening Gaffurius's Libroni, edited by Martina Pantarotto, 59-164. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Pavanello, Agnese. 2021. The Non-Milanese Repertory of the Libroni: A Potential Guide for Tracking Musical Exchanges. Reopening Gaffurius's Libroni, edited by Agnese Pavanello, 217-269. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Rossi, Francesco Rocco. 2021. Franchino Gaffurio compositore. I mottetti. Ivrea: LeMus.
Cassia, Cristina. 2019b. Catalogo dei Libroni gaffuriani. Codici per cantare. I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano Sforzesca, edited by Cristina Cassia, 291-389. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Filippi, Daniele V. 2019b. Where Devotion and Liturgy Meet: Reassessing the Milanese Roots of the "Motetti missales". Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy, edited by Daniele V. Filippi, 53-91. Basel: Schwabe.
Cassia, Cristina. 2019a. La compilazione del Catalogo dei Libroni: problemi e osservazioni. Codici per cantare. I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano Sforzesca, edited by Cristina Cassia, 275-290. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Filippi, Daniele V. 2019a. Breve guida ai "motetti missales" (e dintorni). Codici per cantare. I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano Sforzesca, edited by Daniele V. Filippi, 139-169. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Bokulich, Clare. 2019. Metre and the "Motetti missales". Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy, edited by Clare Bokulich, 397-427. Basel: Schwabe.
Pavanello, Agnese. 2019. Praying to Mary: Another Look at Gaspar van Weerbeke's Marian "Motetti missales". Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy, edited by Agnese Pavanello, 339-380. Basel: Schwabe.
Schmidt, Thomas. 2019. The Coherence of the Cycle? The Notation of the "Motetti missales" in Manuscript and Print. Codici per cantare. I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano Sforzesca, edited by Thomas Schmidt, 171-186. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Torelli, Daniele. 2019. Gli inni e il repertorio per l'ufficio nei Libroni gaffuriani. Codici per cantare. I Libroni del Duomo nella Milano Sforzesca, edited by Daniele Torelli, 233-271. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana.
Filippi, Daniele V. 2017. "Audire missam non est verba missae intelligere...": The Low Mass and the "Motetti missales" in Sforza Milan. Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 9/1: 11-32.
Pavanello, Agnese. 2017. The Elevation as Liturgical Climax in Gesture and Sound: Milanese Elevation Motets in Context. Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 9/1: 33-59.
Gasser, Nolan. 2001. The Marian Motet Cycles of the Gaffurius Codices: A Musical and Liturgico-Devotional Study. Stanford University, Ph.D.
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.
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1987. Florence MS Magl. IXI. 164, Facsimile reproduction, with introduction. Renaissance Music in Facsimile. Garland.
Halpern, Lynn Elise. 1986. The Motetti Missales Repertory Reconsidered. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 39: 491-523. Pages: 491-3, 511, 523. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Halpern, Lynn Elise. 1985. Motet and Mass-Motet Cycles in lhe Gafurius Codices. University of Illinois, Unpublished Master's thesis. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (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: 139,189,270. 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).
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: 32, 545, 602-3. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial).
Jones, George Morton. 1972. The "First" Chansonnier of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Codex 2794: A Study in the Method of Editing l6th-Century Music. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 98, 311; II, 83. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Crawford, David Eugene. 1970. Review of NOHM. Current Musicology, 10: 102-8. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Snow, Robert Joseph. 1969. The Mass-Motet Cycle: A Mid-Fifteenth-Century Experiment. Essays in Musicology in Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday, 301-20. Pittsburgh. Pages: 303, 320. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
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: 87-9, 269ff. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Brawley, John Gray, Jr. 1968. The Magnificats, Hymns, Motets, and Secular Compositions of Johannes Martini. Yale University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 24ff, passim; II, 6ff, 80-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1968. The Ambrosian Motetti Missales Repertory. Musica Disciplina, 22: 77-103. Pages: 79ff. Notes: contents list (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: II, 112-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial).
Kanazawa, Masakata. 1966. Polyphonic music for Vespers in the fifteenth century. Harvard University, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2 vols. Pages: 443-80. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 147. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1966. The Magnificats of Johannes Martini. Paul A Pisk: Essays in His Honor, 10-24. Austin. Pages: 10-5. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Picker, Martin. 1965. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Pages: 137-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Finscher, Ludwig. 1964. Loyset Compere: Life and Works. Musicological Studies and Documents, vol. 12. American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 26-7, 43-6, 53, 89ff, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Noblitt, Thomas L. 1963. The Motetti Missales of the Late Fifteenth Century. University of Texas at Austin, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 3-7, 12, 209-10, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); texts (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, 362. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Reese, Gustave. 1959. Music in the Renaissance. New York. Pages: 180-1, 219, 223, 227. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Migliavacca, Luciano, Angelo Ciceri, and Amerigo Bortone (editors). 1958-1969. Archivium musices metropolitanum mediolanense. Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano. Pages: I-II, IV-ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); transcription; facsimile (partial).
Finscher, Ludwig (editor). 1958-. Loyset Compere: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 15. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II, i-vi, 26-57; III, ii-iii, 22-36; IV, ii-iii, 25-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Sartori, Claudio. 1957. La Cappella Musicale del Duomo di Milano: Catalogo delle Musiche dell'Archivio. Milan. Pages: opp. 6, 43-7. Notes: physical description; contents list; facsimile (partial).
Sartori, Claudio. 1953. II Quarto Codice di Gaffurio non e del Tutto Scomparso. Collectanea Historiae Musicae, 25-44. Notes: physical description (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: II, 1346. Notes: physical description (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud. 1931. Die 3 Gafurius-Kodizes der Fabbrica del Duomo, Milano. Acta Musicologica, 3: 14-28. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.
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William Kempster
Thursday, 21 May, 2026
The two settings of 'O admirabile commercium' by Compere on 151v & 178v are different - these have now been separated
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Monday, 23 January, 2017
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