I-Ma MS A.10 Sup.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano (Milan), Italy

partbook: c. 1530-45

Archive Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano (Milan), Italy (I-Ma)
Shelfmark MS A.10 Sup.
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Surface Paper
Numbering System None
Measurements 160 x 220 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: MilA 10
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • Brescia? Italy
Contents 14 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A set of small partbooks bound into one volume in order: tenor, quintus, cantus, altus, bassus. Copied by two scribes, one of whom was Cipriano de Rore. (Owens argues that the two hands are both Rore's & thus the whole ms autograph.) Possibly copied in Brescia (Jessie Ann Owens) as a sketchbook used by the composer Rore.

Brought to Ferrara in 1546 when Rore began serving at the court of Ercole II d'Este (1508-59). Manuscript given to Rore's pupil Luzzasco Luzzaschi in 1559; Luzzaschi presented it in 1606 to Cardinal Federigo Borromeo (1564-1631), Archbishop of Milan and founder of Biblioteca Ambrosiana. (Affidavit by Luzzaschi bound in at beginning discusses his acquisition of the manuscript).

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Binding

Early 17th century(?) covers of white leather, with ornamental wreath design in gold

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Watermark

(1) crossbow; (2) ox head with cross.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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2 motets, 1 textless piece (incomplete) = 3

(Rore)-3

5 paper partbooks, now bound together as composite manuscript of 21 folios, 160 x 220. Modern pencil foliation, 1-21. Early 17th century(?) covers of white leather, with ornamental wreath design in gold. No index. Copied by two scribes, one of whom was Cipriano de Rore. No decoration. Watermarks: (1) crossbow; (2) ox head with cross.

Ca. 1530-45. Possibly copied in Brescia (Jessie Ann Owens). A sketchbook used by the composer Rore; brought to Ferrara in 1546 when Rore began serving at the court of Ercole II d'Este (1508-59). Manuscript given to Rore's pupil Luzzasco Luzzaschi in 1559; Luzzaschi presented it in 1606 to Cardinal Federigo Borromeo (1564-1631), Archbishop of Milan and founder of Biblioteca Ambrosiana. (Affidavit by Luzzaschi bound in at beginning discusses his acquisition of the manuscript).

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
2–3v Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 2–3v
Genres: Motet
Layout

tenor
4 Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 4
Genres: Motet
Layout

tenor
5v [fragment: re fa mi fa sol la] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 5v
Genres: textless
Layout

tenor
6–7v Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 6–7v
Genres: Motet
Layout

quintus
9v [fragment: re fa mi fa sol la] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 9v
Genres: textless
Layout

quintus
10–11v Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 10–11v
Genres: Motet
Layout

cantus
11v–12 Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 11v–12
Genres: Motet
Layout

cantus
13v [fragment: re fa mi fa sol la] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 13v
Genres: textless
Layout

cantus
14–15v Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 14–15v
Genres: Motet
Layout

altus
16 Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 16
Genres: Motet
Layout

altus
17v [fragment: re fa mi fa sol la] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 17v
Genres: textless
Layout

altus
18–19v Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 18–19v
Genres: Motet
Layout

bassus
19v–20 Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 19v–20
Genres: Motet
Layout

bassus
21v [fragment: re fa mi fa sol la] -
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)

[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]

Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Appears on: 21v
Genres: textless
Layout

bassus
Composer Compositions
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
5v
[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
9v
[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
13v
[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
17v
[fragment: re fa mi fa sol la]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
21v
Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
2–3v
Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
6–7v
Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
10–11v
Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
14–15v
Miserere mei Deus (5vv) [2p: Ecce enim; 3p: Ne projicias]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
18–19v
Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
4
Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
11v–12
Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
16
Sub tuum presidium [Milan A.10]
Rore, Cipriano de (ca. 1515–1565)
19v–20

‡ denotes primary source study

Owens, Jessie Ann. 1984. The Milan Partbooks: Evidence of Cipriano de Rore's Compositional Process. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 270-98. Notes: description of ms; contents list; discussion.

Owens, Jessie Ann. 1979. An Illuminated Manuscript of Motets by Cipriano de Rore (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. B). Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 231, 234-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Crawford, David Eugene. 1975. Sixteenth Century Choirbooks in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato. RMS.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 40. Notes: mention of MS.

Vander Straeten, Edmond. 1969. La Musique aux Pays-Bas Avant le XIX' Siècle.  Brussels, 1867-88. Reprinted New York. Pages: VI, 132-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Meier, Bernhard (editor). 1959-. Cipriani Rore: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI, xiii-xiv, xvi, 198-213. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; texts; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Johnson, Alvin Harold. 1954. The Liturgical Music of Cipriano de Rore. Yale University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 14-9, 327. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; discussion.

Amelli, Ambrogio M. 1909, 1910. Indice dei Codici Manoscritti della Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Rivista delle Biblioteche e degli Archivi, 39-46,58-78,151-8,183-92. Pages: XXI, 187. Notes: mention of MS.

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Watermark Note; Notation Note

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

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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