E-PAbm 6832 (862)

Fundación Bartolomé March, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

manuscript of polyphony: Late 16th century

Archive Fundación Bartolomé March, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (E-PAbm)
Shelfmark 6832 (862)
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Pagination
Measurements 294 x 212 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: MadM 6832
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Biblioteca de la Casa del Duque de Medinaceli, MS 607
  • olim (Former shelfmark): E-Mb MS R. 6832 (862)
Notations
  • black void mensural
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  • Spain
Contents Contains 137 compositions, 131 from 16 composers, 6 are anonymous.
General Description

Copied by a single scribe. Four repertorial sections: (1) motets and hymns; (2) Magnificats; (3) Masses; (4) secular pieces. Significant focus on the works of Morales, which cover 620 of its 808 pages (StevnsnS): section three includes the almost complete set of his Masses; motet models for the Masses appear in the first section; and the second section contains the complete Magnificats of Morales.

Copied in Spain. Once owned by Luis Jesús Fernandez de Cordoba y Salabert, 17th Duke of Medinaceli (1880-1956); may have belonged to Medinaceli family from an early period. Acquired in 1970's by the lawyer and financier Bartolomé March Servera of Madrid.

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Physical Description

Many folios damaged by ink corrosion

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Binding

Rebound in modern covers of maroon leather, with metal clasps and double slipcase.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 15

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Foliation

Modern pencil pagination, 1-816.

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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22 Masses, 1 Requiem Mass, 18 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 4 hymns, 25 motets, 11 Spanish secular pieces = 82

Basurto-1, Carreira-1, (Flécha)-3, Gombert-1, Gombert/(C. Festa)-1, Guerrero-2, F. Layolle-1, Andreas López-3, Morales-37, Mouton-3, Ortiz-1, Penet-1, (Rein)-1, Richafort-1, Sermisy [Claudin]-1, Verdelot-1, Verdelot/(Richafort)-1, anon-22

i + 408 + i paper folios, 294 x 212. Many folios damaged by ink corrosion. Modern pencil pagination, 1-816. Rebound in modern covers of maroon leather, with metal clasps and double slipcase. No index. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 15. No initials or decoration. Four repertorial sections: (1) motets and hymns; (2) Magnificats; (3) Masses; (4) secular pieces. Section (3) includes several parody Masses by Morales; motet models for these Masses appear in first section.

Late 16th century. Copied in Spain. Once owned by Luis Jesús Fernandez de Cordoba y Salabert, 17th Duke of Medinaceli (1880-1956); may have belonged to Medinaceli family from an early period. Acquired in 1970's by the lawyer and financier Bartolomé March Servera of Madrid.

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Diego Pacheco, Cristina. 2016. Cristóbal de Morales en Espagne: ses premières œuvres et le manuscrit de Valladolid. 304. Lyon: Symétrie Recherche. 978-2-914373-92-0.

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 146. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Stevenson, Robert. 1961. Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age.  Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages: 42, 68, 70, 73, 83, 135, 315, 321-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Stevenson, Robert. 1952-3. Music Research in Spanish Libraries. Notes, 10: 49-57. Pages: 53-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola.  Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: XI, 57ff, Facs. 8-10; XV, 31ff; XVI, 20; XVII, 48ff; XX, 13; XXI, 9ff; XXIV, 7ff; XL,[11ff], 19-27,34-49. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial); facsimile (partial).

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description