Portion of an Altus partbook from a set originally of five volumes. Copied by Jean Michel, scribe at Este court in Ferrara (RifNL). Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as 'Codex DCCCXXXVI' (RifNL). Copied in Ferrara, for use at court of Ercole II d'Esté, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Portion of original A book which is now ParisBNN 4599 apparently still in Italy in 17th century (inscription at beginning). Came to Bibliothèque Nationale at an unknown time.
F-Pnm NAF 4599
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
partbook fragment: c. 1535
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | NAF 4599 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 139 x 212 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition from 1 composer. Contains uninventoried compositions from 7 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Modern covers of black boards
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-12.
Decoration
Inked calligraphic initials.
Surface
i paper + 12 parchment + i paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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12 French secular pieces
Gascongne-1, Gauvain-1, Jacotin-3, Jacotin/(Appenzeller/Sermisy)-1, Mouton-1, Richafort-1, Willaert-1, anon-3
Portion of 1 partbook of an original 5 (A-i paper + 12 parchment + i paper folios), 139 x 212. Another portion of A book now LonBL 19583 (RifNL); portions of T and B books now ModE F.2.29 (LowMCE); D and Q books apparently lost. Modern pencil foliation, 1-12. Modern covers of black boards. No index. Copied by Jean Michel, scribe at Este court in Ferrara (RifNL); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Inked calligraphic initials. Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as "Codex DCCCXXXVI" (RifNL).
Ca. 1535 (Rifkin). Copied in Ferrara, for use at court of Ercole II d'Esté, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Portion of original A book which is now ParisBNN 4599 apparently still in Italy in 17th century (inscription at beginning). Came to Bibliothèque Nationale at an unknown time.
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Ferrara partbooks
Fragments of a whole · 3 sources
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Lockwood, Lewis Henry. 1979. Jean Mouton and Jean Michel: New Evidence on French Music and Musicians in Italy, 1505-1520. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 32: 191-246. Pages: 217, 233-4. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).
Nowacki, Edward. 1979. The Latin Psalm Motet 1500-1535. Renaissance-Studien: Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 11. 159-84. Tutzing. Pages: 163. Notes: mention of MS.
Lowinsky, Edward E. 1976. Problems in Editing the Music of Josquin des Prez: A Critique of the First Edition and Proposals for the Second Edition [Symposium]. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 723-54. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 737. Notes: mention of MS.
Diehl, George Karl. 1974. The Partbooks of a Renaissance Merchant. Cambrai: Bibliothèque municipale, MSS 125-128. University of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 517, 763-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Rifkin, Joshua. 1974. New Light on Music Manuscripts at the Court of Ferrara in the Reigns of Alfonso I and Hercules II. Paper presented at the New England Renaissance Conference at Durham, New Hampshire, October 26, 1974, . Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1973. La Courone et fleur des chansons a troys; A Mirror of the French Chanson in Italy in the Years between Ottaviano Petrucci and Antonio Gardano. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 1-68. Pages: 19-22, 43. Notes: contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.
Allaire, Gaston Georges, and Isabelle Anne-Marie Cazeaux (editors). 1970. Claudin de Sermisy: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 52. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: IV, xv. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Cazeaux, Isabelle Anne-Marie. 1961. The Secular Music of Claudin de Sermisy. Columbia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 345. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Bruning, Elisens (editor). 1959-. Monumenta Musica Neerlandica. Amsterdam. Pages: XIV, x. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 458. Notes: physical description (partial).
Omont, Henri (editor). 1868-1902. Bibliothèque Nationale: Catalogue Général des Manuscrits Français. Paris. Pages: XVI, 219. Notes: physical description.
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