I-Vnm MS It. IV. 1798 [Bassus]

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, Italy

partbook: c. 1520

Archive Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, Italy (I-Vnm)
Shelfmark MS It. IV. 1798 [Bassus]
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 217 x 144 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Vnm 1795-98
  • CCM: VenBN 10653-6
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MS 10656
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • Northern Italy, Italy
Contents Contains 102 compositions, 49 from 13 composers, 53 are anonymous.
General Description

A Bassus partbook from a set of four volumes. Although there are not many concordances in manuscripts, a large number of the attributed pieces & several anonyma are known from printed sources of the 1510s and early 1520s.

Copied by several scribes (a single scribe: Fenlon/Haar). Copied in northern Italy. Acquired by present library in 1929-30, 2 books donated by the Ministry of Educatrion, and the other two bought from Vincenzi of Modena, presumably a book dealer.

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Extent

ff. II, 96, II'

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Binding

Original covers of red leather, tooled in gold with decorative designs typical of Venetian work (Fenlon/Haar), and initial of voice designation

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Watermark

(1) generally resembles Zonghi #1588; (2) crossed arrows surmounted by six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (3) generally resembles Briquet #3401

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Notation

black void mensural notation

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Ruling

Staff height 10-11; four staves per page

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Foliation

incomplete and inconsistent modern pencil foliation

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Foliation

Other numberings: Each book has identical original ink numbering of pieces in two series, on upper right rectos. First series consistent and correct from 1 to 53; thereafter, an inconsistent and confused mixture of foliation and piece numbers was added by one or more later hands. Second series (of villotte) consistent and correct from i to xi; one piece at end not numbered.

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Decoration

Page-edges gilded and stamped

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Decoration

Inked calligraphic initials

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Index

Original indices at beginning of each book group pieces in first series alphabetically by first letter of text; pieces in second series listed in order of appearance (some pieces not listed).

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

RISM

XVIe s. 4 livres (S et A 96ff.; T 93ff.; B 98ff.). Papier, 217 x 142 mm. Foliotation ancienne ne tenant pas compte des 2ff. de garde, et foliotation (ou pagination: A et T) moderne de tous les ff. D'après la foliotation moderne, sont blancs: S: ff. 3, 72 à 81, 90 à 96v; A: p. 3, 141 à 161, 179 à 192; T: p. 4, 5, 144 à 163, 181 à 186; B: ff. 1, 83v et 12ff. n. ch. à la fin. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Aux 2ff. de garde des 4 vol., table alphabétique du ms., incompl. du 2e f. à 1'A. Initiales ornées à la plume. Reliures anciennes de cuir rouge estampé, fers dorés.

Ms. acheté en 1929 pour la Marciana par le ministère de l'éducation nationale comme l'indique une collette à l'intérieur du plat supérieur de la reliure: «Provenienza: Dono Minist° Ed. Naz. 1929.» Le ms. comprend deux parties, séparées par quelques p. blanches et qui contiennent chacune un répertoire différent: une majorité de frottole pour la 1ère partie (nos 1 à 91) et de villote, désignées comme telles à la table, pour la 2e (nos 92 à 102). Il s'agit dans son ensemble d'un répertoire de l'Italie du nord où il a vraisemblablement été copié et que l'on retrouve dans les imprimés entre 1514 et 1530, dates qui représentent approximativement l'époque de la compilation du recueil.

Foliotation moderne, suivie de la foliotation ancienne entre crochets

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RISM

XVIe s. 4 livres (S et A 96ff.; T 93ff.; B 98ff.). Papier, 217 x 142 mm. Foliotation ancienne ne tenant pas compte des 2ff. de garde, et foliotation (ou pagination: A et T) moderne de tous les ff. D'après la foliotation moderne, sont blancs: S: ff. 3, 72 à 81, 90 à 96v; A: p. 3, 141 à 161, 179 à 192; T: p. 4, 5, 144 à 163, 181 à 186; B: ff. 1, 83v et 12ff. n. ch. à la fin. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Aux 2ff. de garde des 4 vol., table alphabétique du ms., incompl. du 2e f. à 1'A. Initiales ornées à la plume. Reliures anciennes de cuir rouge estampé, fers dorés.

Ms. acheté en 1929 pour la Marciana par le ministère de l'éducation nationale comme l'indique une collette à l'intérieur du plat supérieur de la reliure: «Provenienza: Dono Minist° Ed. Naz. 1929.» Le ms. comprend deux parties, séparées par quelques p. blanches et qui contiennent chacune un répertoire différent: une majorité de frottole pour la 1ère partie (nos 1 à 91) et de villote, désignées comme telles à la table, pour la 2e (nos 92 à 102). Il s'agit dans son ensemble d'un répertoire de l'Italie du nord où il a vraisemblablement été copié et que l'on retrouve dans les imprimés entre 1514 et 1530, dates qui représentent approximativement l'époque de la compilation du recueil.

Foliotation moderne, suivie de la foliotation ancienne entre crochets

102 Italian secular pieces, 1 Latin secular piece = 103

Bartolucci d'Assisi [M° Rofino]-2, Cara [M.C.]-13, (Cara/Tromboncino)-4, Darius ap'lis-1, (S. Festa)-1, (Lauro)-1, (Lodi)-1, (Lulinus)-1, (Santacroce)-4, (Tromboncino)-21, Violante-1, anon-53

4 paper partbooks (D-97 folios, A-99, T-94, B-i + 97 + ii), 144 x 217. D book has modern pencil foliation, 1-98, on lower right rectos (f. 97 now missing); AT books have modern pencil pagination, 1-198 and 1-188, respectively, on upper left versos and upper right rectos; B book has incomplete and inconsistent modern pencil foliation. Each book has identical original ink numbering of pieces in two series, on upper right rectos. First series consistent and correct from 1 to 53; thereafter, an inconsistent and confused mixture of foliation and piece numbers was added by one or more later hands. Second series consistent and correct from 1 to 11; one piece at end not numbered.

Original covers of red leather, tooled in gold with decorative designs and initial of voice designation. Original indices at beginning of each book group pieces in first series alphabetically by first letter of text; pieces in second series listed in order of appearance (some pieces not listed). Copied by several scribes. Staff height 10-11. Inked calligraphic initials. Watermarks: (1) generally resembles Zonghi #1588; (2) crossed arrows surmounted by six-pointed star (not in Briquet); (3) generally resembles Briquet #3401.

Ca. 1520 (JepFR). Copied in northern Italy. Acquired by present library from unidentified Italian antiquarian book dealer in 1929-30.

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Haar, James. 1981. The Early Madrigal: A Re-Appraisal of Its Sources and Its Character. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, 163-92. Cambridge. Pages: 169, 172. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Luisi, Francesco (editor). 1979. Apografo miscellaneo Marciano.  Venezia: Fondazione Levi.

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: 571-2, 584. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Prizer, William Flaville. 1974. Marchetta Cara and the North Italian Frottola. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 216-7, 222, 235, 250; II, 21-5, 28, 30-2, 35-6, 231-60, 285. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

D'Accone, Frank A. 1972. Transitional Text Forms and Settings in an Early 10th-Century Florentine Manuscript. Words and Music: The Scholar's View ... Compiled in Honor of A. Tillman Meniti,  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 56-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kämper, Dietrich. 1970. Studien zur Instrumentalen Ensemblemusik des 16. Jahrhunderts in Italien. Analecta Musicologica, 10: . Pages: 63. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Loach, Donald Glenn. 1969. Aegidius Tschudi's Songbook (St. Gall MS 463): A Humanistic Document from the Circle of Heinrich Glarean. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 318-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14.  Tutzing. Pages: I, 4Iff, passim; II, 14, 21, 23, 162-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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, xxxviii, 92-5, 200-3, passim; III, 42, 87, 101-4. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Rubsamen, Walter H. 1964. From Frottola to Madrigal: The Changing Pattern of Secular Italian Vocal Music. Chanson & Madrigal 1480-1530: Studies in Comparison and Contrast, 51-87 and 172-242. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 66-7, 71, 235-42. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Dazzi, Manlio. 1956. Dal duecento al cinquecento. II fiore della lirica veneziana, 172ff. Venezia. Pages: I, 172.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: XIII, 1392-4. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial).

Rubsamen, Walter H. 1943. Literary Sources of Secular Music in Italy (ca. 1500). University of California Publications in Music, vol. 1, No. 1.  Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages: 7, 11, 28-31, 34. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Torrefranca, Fausto. 1939-42; Reprint: Bologna 1972. II segreto del Quattrocento.  Milano. Pages: 24ff, 356-71, 386-98, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1939. Über einige unbekannte Frottolenhandschriften. Acta Musicologica, 11: 81-114. Pages: 93-103. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.

Schwartz, Rudolf (editor). 1935. Ottaviano Petrucci, Frottole, Buch I und IV. Publikationen älterer Musik, vol. 8.  Leipzig. Pages: VII.

Torrefranca, Fausto. 1934-. I primordi della polifonia del Cinquecento. Nuova Antologia: Rivista di Lettere, Scienze ed Arti, 13: 104ff. Pages: 107ff.

[No Author] 1911-. Città di Firenze, Biblioteca del R. Istituto musicale (del R. Conservatorio de Musica), 1911 - Città di Modena, R. Biblioteca Estense. 1916 - Città di Parma, [Archivio di Stato e Ba Palatina], 1911 - Città di Torino, R. Biblioteca Nazionale, 1928 - Città di Venezia, R. Biblioteca di S. Marco, 1941 - Città di Verona, Biblioteca della Società Accademia Filarmonica, Fondo musicale antico, 1935-36. Catalogo generale delle opere musicali... fino ai primi decenni del secolo XIX, esistenti nelle biblioteche e negli archivi pubblici e privati d'Italia.  Parma: Associazione dei musicologi italiani. Pages: 295ff.

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