I-TVd 29

Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo di Treviso, Treviso, Italy

partbooks: c. 1570-5 (Blackburn); c. 1575-81 (Bryant/Pozzobon)

Archive Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo di Treviso, Treviso, Italy (I-TVd)
Shelfmark 29
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Format portrait
Measurements c. 240 x 170 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: TrevBC 29
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Relationships
Provenance
Contents Contains 232 compositions, 225 from 38 composers, 7 are anonymous.
General Description

Previously believed destroyed by fire in 1944, but rediscovered badly charred in 1989 (Pozzobon1989; details of restoration and further discussion in BryPozz). Contents known from thematic catalogue made by chapter archivist Giovanni d'Alessi.

175 motets: 1-79 in liturgical sequence (Christmas to Christmas), 80-99 in a further sequence Christmas to the feast of St Benedict (21 March) supplementing the first; then 100-127 for the common of saints, apostles etc; five motets in liturgical sequence 128-132; and the second series II: 1-43 entirely of Marian motets.

60 of the 175 motets (none from the second series) are contrafacta, in many cases adapted musically as well as re-texted with locally-specific texts, probably by Pietro Varisco, a priest at Treviso Cathedral, and the compiler and owner of the manuscript (BlackTrev).

Copied in Treviso by a single scribe, identified as Giovanni Ferrandino (BryPozz). Perhaps for use by cathedral choir or one of the city confraternities (BlackTrev); BryPozz argue that it was prepared for the Scuola di Santa Maria dei Battuti (a flagellant sect in Treviso); GlixonMDC that it was for Varisco's singers who serviced many churches in the city.

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Binding

Covers featured Pietro Varisco's coat of arms

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Binding

Parchment, bearing the coat of arms & initials of Varisco - P(resbyter) P(etrus) V(ariscus)

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

9 staves per page - based on the surviving photographs of only some pages

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Foliation

Alessi's catalogue numbers the motets in two series, 1-132 then II: 1-43

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Index

appears to have had an index (Pozzobon1989)

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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175 motets

I. Alberti-1, G. Animuccia-1, Arcadelt-1, Berchem-2, Berchem/(Gombert/Jaquet of Mantua)-1, Caussin? [Arnoldi]-1, B. Comes-7, Contini-19, Corvo-3, Danckerts [Gislinus]-1, Garulli-3, Gombert-9, Gombert/(Jaquet of Mantua)-1, Gombert/(Lupi)-1, Jaquet of Mantua [Jachet]-8, Jaquet of Mantua/(Vermont)-1, Jhan of Ferrara [Metre Jan]-6, Jhan of Ferrara/(Jaquet of Mantua)-1, Lafage-1, Lassus-6, Lupi-1, Morales-2, Nasco-2, A. Palestrina-1, Palestrina [Jo. Petraloysius Praenestinus]-19, Perissone Cambio-1, Phinot-9, Portinaro-7, Richafort-1, Rore-10, Santacroce [Franc. Patav.]-1, Schaffen-1, Spalenza-1, Testore [Gulielmi Textoris]-1, Tudual-1, Willaert-19, Willaert/(Verdelot)-1, Zarlino-8, anon-15

5 paper partbooks. No further physical description available.

Ca. 1570-5. Copied in Treviso, for use by cathedral choir. Destroyed in 1944, but contents known from thematic catalogue made by chapter archivist Giovanni d'Alessi.

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‡ denotes primary source study

Glixon, Jonathan. 1997. Review of "Musica devozione città" (Bryant/Pozzobon). Notes: discussion of purpose/use of ms.

Bryant, David, and Michele Pozzobon. 1995. Musica devozione città: la Scuola di Santa Maria dei Battuti (e un suo manoscritto musicale) nella Treviso del Rinascimento. Fondazione Benetton studi ricerche. 253. Treviso: Editrice Canova. Notes: description; discussion; contents (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Pozzobon, Michele. 1989. Review of "Music for Treviso Cathedral" (Blackburn). Notes: in postscript, reports the unexpected survival of ms 29 (& others).

Blackburn, Bonnie J. 1987. Music for Treviso Cathedral in the Late Sixteenth Century: A Reconstruction of the Lost Manuscripts 29 and 30. vi+162. London: Royal Musical Association. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); discussion.

Blackburn, Bonnie J (editor). 1980-. Johannes Lupi: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 84.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: (I, xxv, xxxi. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Lewis, Mary Stuart. 1979. Antonio Gardane and His Publications of Sacred Music, 1538-55. Brandeis University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 341-3, 346, 350, 369, 371-2, 388, 390, 412, 453-4, 478, 492, 522-3, 532, 812) LowBV:LpGp(207, 213, 223. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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, 228-34. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Nugent, George Edward. 1973. The Jacquet Motets and Their Authors. Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 138-9, 143ff, 199ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

d'Alessi, Giovanni. 1954. La Cappella musicale del Duomo di Treviso.  Vedelago (Treviso). Pages: 185, 209-18. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

Lowinsky, Edward E. 1950. A Newly Discovered Sixteenth-Century Motet Manuscript at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana in Rome. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 3: 173-232. Pages: 207, 213, 223. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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