US-Wc M2.1.M6 Case (Wolffheim Fragment)

Library of Congress, Washington, United States

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1500

Archive	Library of Congress, Washington, United States (US-Wc)
Shelfmark	M2.1.M6 Case (Wolffheim Fragment)
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Surface	Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System	Foliation
Measurements	177 x 130 mm
Other Identifiers	CCM: WashLC M6
Notations	black void mensural
Relationships	Wolffheim, Werner (1877–1930) (owner) Weckerlin, Jean-Baptiste (1821–1910) (owner) Farrenc, Aristide (owner) La Fage, Lenoir de (owner)
External Links	images
External Authorities	RISM Online (sources/1001207503)
Provenance	Firenze (Florence), Italy
Contents	15 pieces from 12 composers

General Description

Present manuscript consists of ff. 80-99 from choirbook originally containing c. 110 folios. First 61 folios from same manuscript now LonBLE 3051 (RifNR); remaining folios lost. Copied by a single scribe, except for last two pieces, which are later additions by different hand. All pieces in main corpus have text incipits only, or are textless; later additions have full text underlaid. Copied in northern Italy (RifNR); copied in Florence (StaeFMH). See LonBLE 3051 for history of ownership of original manuscript until acquisition by the French composer and scholar Adrien Lenoir de La Fage (1805-62). By time of La Fage's ownership, some gatherings already lost; remaining folios separated into two sections, sold to different buyers after La Fage's death. First portion (ff. 1-61) became LonBLE 3051 (see entry in Vol. II). Portion comprising present WashLC M6 acquired by Aristide Farrenc; passed to Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (1821-1910) in 1866, then to Werner Wolffheim (1877-1930) in 1910. Purchased by Library of Congress at Berlin auction of Wolffheim library in 1929.

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Binding

Rebound in modern covers of white leather and multi-colored cardboard; leather spine stamped in gold with inscription 'MOTETS ET CHANSONS DU XVe. SIÈCLE.'

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 8.5

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Foliation

Old (but not original) foliation in brown ink, lxxx-lxxxxviiii (old numbers on first four folios later erased and replaced with modern pencil foliation, but enumeration probably unchanged)

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Decoration

Voice designations in red or blue ink; no other decoration.

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Index

Incomplete modern index on f. [iii'].

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Surface

iii paper + 20 parchment + iii paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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secular pieces, 1 textless piece = 15

(A. Agricola/Josquin)-1, (Busnois/Compère/Mureau)-1, (Compère/Rubinet/Stokhem)-1, (C. Festa)-2, (Isaac)-3, (Isaac/Rubinet)-1, (Josquin)-2, (Josquin/Lannoy)-1, (Weerbecke)-1, anon-2

iii paper + 20 parchment + iii paper folios, 177 x 130. Present manuscript consists of ff. 80-99 from choirbook originally containing ca. 110 folios. First 61 folios from same manuscript now LonBLE 3051 (RifNR); remaining folios lost. Old (but not original) foliation in brown ink, lxxx-lxxxxviiii (old numbers on first four folios later erased and replaced with modern pencil foliation, but enumeration probably unchanged). Rebound in modern covers of white leather and multi-colored cardboard; leather spine stamped in gold with inscription "MOTETS ET CHANSONS DU XVe. SIÈCLE." Incomplete modern index on f. [iii']. Copied by a single scribe, except for last two pieces, which are later additions by different hand. Staff height 8.5. Voice designations in red or blue ink; no other decoration. All pieces in main corpus have text incipits only, or are textless; later additions have full text underlaid.

Ca. 1500, with post-1537 additions (StaeFMH). Copied in northern Italy (RifNR); copied in Florence (StaeFMH). See LonBLE 3051 for history of ownership of original manuscript until acquisition by the French composer and scholar Adrien Lenoir de La Fage (1805-62). By time of La Fage's ownership, some gatherings already lost; remaining folios separated into two sections, sold to different buyers after La Fage's death. First portion (ff. 1-61) became LonBLE 3051 (see entry in Vol. II). Portion comprising present WashLC M6 acquired by Aristide Farrenc; passed to Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (1821-1910) in 1866, then to Werner Wolffheim (1877-1930) in 1910. Purchased by Library of Congress at Berlin auction of Wolffheim library in 1929.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
80–81	Tu solus qui facis mirabilia 22.5 - 3a pars (of 3): O mater Dei et hominis mater creatoris	[Josquin]	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia 22.5 - 3a pars (of 3): O mater Dei et hominis mater creatoris Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 80–81 Genres: Motet Source Attribution: [Josquin] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: O mater dei [et hominis mater creatoris] 22.5 [= Tu solus qui facis mirabilia] [incomplete]
81v–84	Palle palle palle	[Isaac]	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)
Palle palle palle Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) Appears on: 81v–84 Genres: Italian secular Source Attribution: [Isaac] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Italian Voice Text: [Palle palle palle]
84v–86	Adieu mes amours/Adieu vous command (28.3) - 1a pars (of 2): Adieu mes amours on m'atent/Adieu vous command	[Josquin]	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Adieu mes amours/Adieu vous command (28.3) - 1a pars (of 2): Adieu mes amours on m'atent/Adieu vous command Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Appears on: 84v–86 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: [Josquin] Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: Adie vos amors [= Adieu mes amours on m'atent] 28.3
86v–87v	Anima mea liquefacta est ut dilectus meus	[Weerbecke]	Weerbecke, Gaspar van (ca. 1445–ca. 1516)
Anima mea liquefacta est ut dilectus meus Weerbecke, Gaspar van (ca. 1445–ca. 1516) Appears on: 86v–87v Genres: Motet Source Attribution: [Weerbecke] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Anima mea [liquefacta est ut dilectus] [incomplete] General Note incomplete: Ct & Bs missing at end
88v–89	Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus	[Isaac]	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)
Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) Appears on: 88v–89 Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus], Troped Sanctus Source Attribution: [Isaac] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Benedictus [from Missa Quant j'ay au cueur]
89v–90	Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum 27.33	[A. Agricola/Josquin]	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?)
Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum 27.33 Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?) Appears on: 89v–90 Genres: Motet Source Attribution: [A. Agricola/Josquin] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Impace [= Que vous madame/In pace in idipsum] 27.33
90v–91	Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may	[Busnois/Compère/Mureau]	Mureau, Gilles (?) Busnoys, Antoine (ca. 1430–1492) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?)
Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may Mureau, Gilles (?) Busnoys, Antoine (ca. 1430–1492) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?) Appears on: 90v–91 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: [Busnois/Compère/Mureau] Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: Iene fai plus [= Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escrips]
91v–92	Cela sans plus et plus hola	[Josquin/Lannoy]	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Lannoy, Colinet de
Cela sans plus et plus hola Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Lannoy, Colinet de Appears on: 91v–92 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: [Josquin/Lannoy] Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: Celesamplus [= Cela sans plus et plus hola] 27.4
92v–93	Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis	[Compère/Rubinet/Stokhem]	Robinet, F (?) Stockem, Johannes de (ca. 1445–1487) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?)
Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis Robinet, F (?) Stockem, Johannes de (ca. 1445–1487) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?) Appears on: 92v–93 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: [Compère/Rubinet/Stokhem] Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: [Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis]
93v–94	D'un bel matin che fu sera de fora	Anon.	Anonymous
D'un bel matin che fu sera de fora Anonymous Appears on: 93v–94 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: Anon. Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: [D'un bel matin che fu sera de fora]
94v–95	untexted	Anon.	-
untexted Appears on: 94v–95 Source Attribution: Anon. Voice: [no designation] Languages: none Voice Text: Textless
95v–96	Gratias a vos donzella (=Missa Comme femme: Benedictus)	[Isaac]	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)
Gratias a vos donzella (=Missa Comme femme: Benedictus) Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) Appears on: 95v–96 Genres: Contrafactum, Sanctus [& Benedictus], Song Source Attribution: [Isaac] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: [Benedictus qui venit from Missa Comme femme desconfortée] [= Gracias a vos donzella]
96v–97	Pour mieulx valor = Comt hier	[Isaac/Rubinet]	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) (?) Robinet, F (?)
Pour mieulx valor = Comt hier Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) (?) Robinet, F (?) Appears on: 96v–97 Genres: Chanson Source Attribution: [Isaac/Rubinet] Voice: [no designation] Languages: French Voice Text: [Pour mieulx valor] [= Comt hier]
97v–98	E se per gelosia mi fai tal compagnia	[C. Festa]	Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545)
E se per gelosia mi fai tal compagnia Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545) Appears on: 97v–98 Genres: Italian secular, Madrigal (Italian) Source Attribution: [C. Festa] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Italian Voice Text: [E] Se per gelosia mi fai tal compagnia
98v–99v	Surge amica mea speciosa mea et veni II: O pulcerima mulierum vulnerasti	[C. Festa]	Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545)
Surge amica mea speciosa mea et veni II: O pulcerima mulierum vulnerasti Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545) Appears on: 98v–99v Genres: Motet Source Attribution: [C. Festa] Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Voice Text: Surge amica mea [speciosa mea et veni] II: [O] pulcerima mulierum [vulnerasti]

Composer	Compositions
Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506)	(?) Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum 27.33 – 89v–90
Anonymous	D'un bel matin che fu sera de fora – 93v–94 [No description] – 94v–95
Busnoys, Antoine (ca. 1430–1492)	(?) Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may – 90v–91
Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518)	(?) Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis – 92v–93 (?) Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may – 90v–91
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	Adieu mes amours/Adieu vous command (28.3) - 1a pars (of 2): Adieu mes amours on m'atent/Adieu vous command – 84v–86 (?) Cela sans plus et plus hola – 91v–92 Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum 27.33 – 89v–90 Tu solus qui facis mirabilia 22.5 - 3a pars (of 3): O mater Dei et hominis mater creatoris – 80–81
Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545)	E se per gelosia mi fai tal compagnia – 97v–98 Surge amica mea speciosa mea et veni II: O pulcerima mulierum vulnerasti – 98v–99v
Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)	Gratias a vos donzella (=Missa Comme femme: Benedictus) – 95v–96 Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus – 88v–89 Palle palle palle – 81v–84 (?) Pour mieulx valor = Comt hier – 96v–97
Lannoy, Colinet de	Cela sans plus et plus hola – 91v–92
Mureau, Gilles	(?) Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may – 90v–91
Robinet, F	(?) Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis – 92v–93 (?) Pour mieulx valor = Comt hier – 96v–97
Stockem, Johannes de (ca. 1445–1487)	(?) Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis – 92v–93
Weerbecke, Gaspar van (ca. 1445–ca. 1516)	Anima mea liquefacta est ut dilectus meus – 86v–87v

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Adieu mes amours/Adieu vous command (28.3) - 1a pars (of 2): Adieu mes amours on m'atent/Adieu vous command	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	84v–86
Anima mea liquefacta est ut dilectus meus	Weerbecke, Gaspar van (ca. 1445–ca. 1516)	86v–87v
Cela sans plus et plus hola	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) (?) Lannoy, Colinet de	91v–92
D'un bel matin che fu sera de fora	Anonymous	93v–94
E se per gelosia mi fai tal compagnia	Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545)	97v–98
Gratias a vos donzella (=Missa Comme femme: Benedictus)	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)	95v–96
Ha traite amours me sçauroes-tu feire pis	Robinet, F (?) Stockem, Johannes de (ca. 1445–1487) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?)	92v–93
Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may	Mureau, Gilles (?) Busnoys, Antoine (ca. 1430–1492) (?) Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518) (?)	90v–91
Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)	88v–89
Palle palle palle	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)	81v–84
Pour mieulx valor = Comt hier	Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517) (?) Robinet, F (?)	96v–97
Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum 27.33	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521) Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506) (?)	89v–90
Surge amica mea speciosa mea et veni II: O pulcerima mulierum vulnerasti	Festa, Costanzo (ca. 1485–1545)	98v–99v
Tu solus qui facis mirabilia 22.5 - 3a pars (of 3): O mater Dei et hominis mater creatoris	Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)	80–81

Set: Egerton/Wolffheim chansonnier

Type: Fragments of a whole

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GB-Lbl Egerton 3051

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US-Wc M2.1.M6 Case (Wolffheim Fragment)

‡ denotes primary source study

Weiss, Susan Forscher. 1985. The Manuscript Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Codex Q 18 (olim 143): A Bolognese Instrumental Collection of the Early Cinquecento. University of Maryland, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 96ff, 125, 322, 339-40, 343, 357, 360. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brown, Howard Mayer (editor). 1983. A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments of Renaissance Music. Chicago and London. Pages: 197, 210ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Edwards, Warwick. 1981. Songs Without Words by Josquin and His Contemporaries. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, 79-92. Cambridge. Pages: 90. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II. Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I, xxix, 32-4, 62, 87. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies. Brooklyn. Pages: I, 49ff, 257, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Staehelin, Martin. 1972. Eine Florentiner Musik-Handschrift aus der Zeit um 1500: Quellenkundliche Bemerkungen zur Frottola-Sammlung Ms. Egerton 3051 des British Museum und zum 'Wolffheim-Manuskript' der Library of Congress. Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 55-81. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Rifkin, Joshua. 1971. A 'New' Renaissance Manuscript. Paper read at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, held at Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., 1971, . Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Just, Martin. 1960. Studien zu Heinrich Isaacs Motetten. Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 15 II, 28, 38-9, 56, 110. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 375. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Barksdale, A Beverly. 1953. Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art, January-February 1953, Pages: 29. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial).

de Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. 1935-40. Supplement, 1962. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York. Pages: 241. Notes: physical description.

Engel, Carl. 1929. Division of Music. Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1929, Washington, D.C. Pages: 171. Notes: physical description (partial).

Wolffheim, Werner. 1928-9. Versteigerung der Musikbibliothek des Herrn Dr. Werner Wolffheim. Berlin. Pages: II, 246, Tafel 10. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); facsimile (partial).

Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 394-7, 446-7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

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