I-Lcr MS 97 (Lucca choirbook or Strohm Codex)

Archivio e biblioteca Arcivescovile, Lucca, Italy

choirbook fragment: Mid-15th century: Ca. 1467-70, with additions until ca. 1500

Archive Archivio e biblioteca Arcivescovile, Lucca, Italy (I-Lcr)
Shelfmark MS 97 (Lucca choirbook or Strohm Codex)
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Surface Parchment
Other Identifiers
  • olim (Former shelfmark): G. L. 1608 and G. L. 1609
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Contents Contains 6 compositions, 6 are anonymous.
General Description

Two bifolios removed from binding. Other loose leaves from the same MS, similarly removed form bindings, are to be found in I-Lucca Archivio di Stato MS 238 1-58v (total images: 136) and I-Pisa Biblioteca Arcivescovile Cardinale Pietro Maffi Cartella 11/III.

These bifolios are folios 38/38.5 & 38.1/38.4; and 42.1/42.4 & 42.2/42.3 (all discovered 2002) of the dismembered choirbook, as numbered in Strohm's facsimile. A full listing of his foliation, and a reconstruction of the fragments, can be found here.

Reinhard Strohm, 2003
Notation

not indicated

Reinhard Strohm, 2003
Foliation

r+v

Reinhard Strohm, 2003
RISM Description

Catalogue entries for LucAS 238:

RISM B/IV 5: XVe s. 58ff. Parchemin, 460 x 340 mm. Foliotation moderne en haut des ff. Les ff. 11, 21, 35v, 48, 58r-v sont blancs. Lef. 1 coupé longitudinalement, le f. 11 très mutilé. Notation mesurée blanche. 10 portées par p. Six capitales enluminées or et coul., restes d'une miniature au f. 1v.

Dépecé au XVIIe s. pour servir de couvertures aux actes notariés des Archives, ce ms. reconstitué en 1965 à partir de feuillets épars, appartient au même groupe que les mss. de l'Estense à Modena (MOe 456) et de la Vaticana (Rvat. 51) copiés à la fin du XVe s. et avec lesquels il présente d'ailleurs quelques concordances (nos 2, 5b, 11, 13, 14). Il est possible qu'il ait été copié en Flandre vers 1470 et qu'il soit en relation avec l'évêque de Lucca Stefano Trenta (1448-1478) qui était nonce du pape en Angleterre et en Bourgogne sous Paul II dont on relève le nom plusieurs fois au f. 1. Le répertoire en tout cas, ne permet guère de repousser la date de la copie au delà de 1485. Malheureusement, aucune pièce n'est complète, mais le ms. a tout de même permis de découvrir l'auteur d'une messe restée jusque là anonyme dans TR89 (nos 736-740): Henricus Tik (no 1), ainsi qu'un Kyrie inconnu de Frye (no 4).

Le dépouillement suit la numérotation donnée par Strohm qui a découvert, mis en ordre et étudié le ms.

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Strohm, Reinhard. 2008. The Lucca Choirbook: Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, Cartella 11/III, facs. ed. with an introduction and inventory. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimile, vol. 2.  Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Taruskin, Richard. 1986. Antoine Busnoys and the L'Homme armé Tradition. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 39: 255-93. Pages: 258-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Strohm, Reinhard. 1985. Music in Late Medieval Bruges.  Oxford. Pages: 120-42, 192-200,220-35,238-49; frontispiece; Plates 6 and 8. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Strohm, Reinhard. 1979. Die Missa super 'Nos amis' von Johannes Tinctoris. Die Musikforschung, 32: 34-51. Pages: 39. Notes: contents list (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I, xxix, 30-1, 60, 86; III, 87-9. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 1976. Guillaume Dufay's Masses: A View of the Manuscript Traditions. Papers read at the Dufay Quincentenary Conference, Brooklyn College, December 6-7, 1974, 26-60,150-1. Brooklyn. Pages: 37-8, 41-2. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hamm, Charles E, and Ann Besser Scott. 1972. A Study and Inventory of the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a.X.I.11 (ModB). Musica Disciplina, 26: 101-43. Pages: 138. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Planchart, Alejandro Enrique. 1972. Guillaume Dufay's Masses: Notes and Revisions. The Musical Quarterly, 58: 1-23. Pages: 1, 8-13. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Scott, Ann Besser. 1972. English Music in Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a. X. 1.11 and Other Italian Manuscripts. Musica Disciplina, 26: 145-60. Pages: 146. Notes: mention of MS.

Strohm, Reinhard. 1968. Ein unbekanntes Chorbuch des 15. Jahrhunderts. Die Musikforschung, 21: 40ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XXII, 173ff. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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