I-Fc MS Basevi 2440

Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Florence, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: 16th century

Archive Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Florence, Italy (I-Fc)
Shelfmark MS Basevi 2440
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Mixed Foliation and Pagination
Measurements 120 x 170 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Fc 2440 (Basevi 2440)
  • CCM: FlorC 2440
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  • Florence, Italy
Contents Contains 58 compositions, 39 from 16 composers, 19 are anonymous.
General Description

Copied by one main scribe and several additional hands. Thirteen concordances with FlorBN BR 230 (JepBR); five pieces were probably copied directly from FlorBN Magl. 164-7, by the same scribe (Rifkin).

The manuscript falls into two parts, of strophic and non-strophic songs. The opening sections have 4 staves to a page with room for additional text strophes left between the middle two, and are written by the main scribe with a second hand adding two textless pieces. The second part is ruled differently (but with the same rastrum) for non-strophic pieces, copied mostly by the same two scribes but with a number of additional pieces, many by a third scribe who wrote FlorBN Magl. 164-7 (RifSC), and copied 4 pieces in the same order into both manuscripts.

Copied in Florence, probably by or for someone associated with the poet Lorenzo Strozzi (1482-1551), author of the texts of 26 pieces (D'AccT).

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Extent

100 ff

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Physical Description

Water staining renders some of the music illegible.

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Binding

Original brown leather covers, recently restored, with gold floral designs.

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Notation

not indicated

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Date

Ca. 1515-20 (RifSC; cf. D'AccT), probably in 2 parts, the earlier c. 1515 and the later at the beginning of the 1520s.

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Ruling

4-6 staves per page

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Foliation

Modern pagination, 1-200; modern foliation, 1-100. (Pagination used in DIAMM inventory.)

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Decoration

Illuminated initials.

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Index

A modern list of composers represented in the manuscript, with some concordances, has been bound into the front of the volume.

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 5: XVIe s., 100ff. (200 p.) + 2ff. de garde. Parchemin, 120 x 170 mm. Foliotation 1-100 et pagination 1-200 modernes au bas des ff. 2ff de papier ajoutés au début du vol. portant la liste des compositeurs et quelques concordances. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 (p. 1-120) et 6 (p. 121-200) portées par p. Initiales ornées. Reliure ancienne (restaurée) cuir estampé d'or.

Ce ms. de plusieurs mains (on peut en distinguer 5 ou 6) est entré à la Bibl. del Conservatorio en 1885 avec la donation Basevi. Il contient 56 pièces apparte-nant à la période de transition entre frottola et madrigal et a certainement été copie à Florence. L'étude de la biographie de certains compositeurs (B. Pisano, par exemple, né en 1490 ou F. de Layolle né en 1492) oblige à rejeter l'hypothèse de Gandolfi qui situait la copie à l'époque de Lorenzo il Magnifico, ou celle de Torrefranca qui jugeait le ms. «tipico del periodo savonaroliano», pour adopter une date plus récente: le recueil a été plus vraisemblablement compilé entre 1515 et 1525, le poète (Lorenzo Strozzi) et les compositeurs qui y sont le plus largement représentés ayant été particulièrement actifs à Florence durant cette période. Des taches d'humidité rendent malheureusement certaines lectures impossibles.

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54 Italian secular pieces, 2 textless pieces = 56

A. Agricola-1, Bartolomeo degli Organi-7, (Cara)-1, Coppinus [Alex, floren.]-2, (C. Festa)-1, (S. Festa)-1, Isaac-3, F. Layolle [F. Aiolles]-1, (Ostia or Santacroce? [F.P.])-2, Pesenti [Pr. Michael]-2, Pesenti/(Cara/Tromboncino)-1, Pisano-16, anon-18

i + 100 + i parchment folios, 120 x 170. Modern pagination, 1-200; modern foliation, 1-100. Original brown leather covers, recently restored, with gold floral designs. A modern list of composers represented in the manuscript, with some concordances, has been bound into the front of the volume. One main scribe; several additional hands, one of which also appears in FlorBN Magl. 164-7 (RifSC). Illuminated initials. Thirteen concordances with FlorBN BR 230 (JepBR); five pieces were probably copied directly from FlorBN Magl. 164-7, by the same scribe (Rifkin).

Ca. 1515-20 (RifSC; cf. D'AccT). Copied in Florence, probably by or for someone associated with the poet Lorenzo Strozzi (1482-1551), author of many of the texts (D'AccT).

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Composers: Change "(C. Festa)-1" to "(C. Festa)-2"; change "(Ostia or Santa-croce? [F.P.])-2" to "(Santacroce)-2"; change "Pisano-16'' to "Pisano-8 + 6?, Pisano/(C. Festa/G. Fogliano)-1."

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Fenlon, Iain, and James Haar. 1978. Fonti e Cronologia dei Madrigali di Costanzo Festa. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 13: 212-42. Pages: 214,235-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Haar, James. 1976. Some Remarks on the 'Missa La sol fa re mi'. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 564-88. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 573,584. Notes: concordances (partial).

Rifkin, Joshua. 1973. Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 305-26. Pages: 313, 317. Notes: physical description; contents list; facsimile (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A. 1972. Transitional text forms and settings in an early 16th-century Florentine manuscript. Words and Music: The Scholar's View ... Compiled in Honor of A Tillman Menitt, 29ff. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

D'Accone, Frank A (editor). 1969. Francesco de Layolle: Collected Secular Works for 2, 3, 4 and 5 Voices. Vols. Ill and IV of Music of the Florentine Renaissance. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. 32. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: III.xvii, passim. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial); texts.

Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14.  Tutzing. Pages: I,40ff,207-8; II,14,38. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, xviii, 46-9, 136-9, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial).

Pannella, Liliana. 1968. Le composizioni profane di una raccolta fiorentina del cinquecento. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 3: 3-47. Pages: 41-7.

Sutherland, David Angus. 1968. Francesco de Layolle (1492-1540): Life and Secular Works. University of Michigan, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 85. Notes: mention of MS.

D'Accone, Frank A (editor). 1967. Collected Works of Alessandro Coppini, Bartolomeo degli Organi, Giovanni Serragli and three anonymous works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 32.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial); texts.

D'Accone, Frank A. 1967. Alessandro Coppini and Bartolomeo degli Organi: Two Florentine Composers of the Renaissance. Analecta Musicologica, 4: 38-76. Pages: 55-6. Notes: concordances (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A (editor). 1966. Bernardo Pisano: Collected Works. Vol. I of Music of the Florentine Renaissance. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 32.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: vi,234 passim. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial); texts.

Gallico, Claudio. 1966. Per la Compilazione di un Inventario di Poesia e Musica Italiana del Primo Rinascimento. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 1: 88-93. Pages: 92. Notes: mention of MS.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1966. The Manuscript Florence Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Banco Rari 230: An Attempt at a Diplomatic Reconstruction. Aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, 440-7. New York. Pages: 446. Notes: mention of MS.

Becherini, Bianca. 1964. I Manoscritti e le stampe rare della Biblioteca del Conservatorio 'L. Cherubini' di Firenze. La Bibliofilia, 66: 255-99. Pages: 261-4. Notes: physical description; contents list; facsimile (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A. 1963. Bernardo Pisano: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Musica Disciplina, 17: 115-35. Pages: 126-31. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Main, Alexander, and Albert Seay (editors). 1962-. Costanza Festa: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 25.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VII.ix, ix-xx. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Lerner, Edward R (editor). 1961-70. Alexandrí Agricola: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 22.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: I,lvii, 66-7. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial).

Gallico, Claudio. 1961. Un Canzionere Musicale Italiano del Cinquecento (Bologna, Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini" Ms. Q 21).  Florence. Pages: 79ff. Notes: concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Becherini, Bianca. 1959. Catalogo dei manoscritti musicali della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze.  Kassel. Pages: 243f.

Torrefranca, Fausto. 1939-42; Reprint: Bologna 1972. II segreto del Quattrocento.  Milano. Pages: 58, 128 n. 1, 169, 257f, 272f.

Einstein, Alfred. 1939. Dante on the way to the madrigal. The Musical Quarterly, 25: 142ff. Pages: 152. Notes: contents list (partial).

Ghisi, Federico. 1939. Canti carnascialeschi, frottole, canzoni francesi. Note D'Archivio per la Storia Musicale, 16: 68ff. Pages: 203.

[No Author] 1937. Mostra bibliografica di musica italiana dalle origini alla fine del secolo XVIII.  Firenze: R. Biblioteca nazionale centrale Firenze. Pages: 19f no 19.

Gandolfi, Riccardo. 1911. Intorno al Codice membranaceo di ballate et di canzoncine ... R. Instituto Musicale di Firenze, N. 2440. Rivista Musicale Italiana, 18: 537-48. Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: XXVIII,171. Notes: physical description.

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