CH-Zz MS Q 906

Zentralbibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland

partbook: After 1536

Archive Zentralbibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland (CH-Zz)
Shelfmark MS Q 906
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 72 x 101 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ZurZ 906
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Bern, Landesbibliothek. MS G 938
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Relationships
Provenance
  • Border of Germany & Switzerland
Contents Contains uninventoried compositions from 1 composer.
General Description

A Tenor partbook from a set originally of four volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Presumably of south German or Swiss origin. Formerly bound together with the prints RISM 1535/10 and 1535/11 (exemplar of latter was second edition of 1536, not catalogued separately in RISM). Composite volume once owned by Landesbibliothek in Bern; given to present library in 1915. At Zürich, manuscript and printed sections were separated, rebound, and assigned different call numbers; printed portions now 'Mus. 908'; manuscript portion now 'Q, 906.'

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Binding

Rebound in modern covers of black cardboard.

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Watermark

No watermarks visible

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Notation

black void mensural

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Ruling

Staff height 9

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Foliation

Other numberings: Original numbering of pieces, 1-11 (last piece not numbered).

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Foliation

Original ink foliation mostly obliterated by later trimming.

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Decoration

No initials or decoration

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Mass, 1 hymn, 6 motets, 1 German sacred piece, 2 German secular pieces, 1 piece with uncertain incipit = 12

(Isaac)-1, anon-11

1 paper partbook of an original 4 (T-ii + 22 + i folios), 72 x 101. Original ink foliation mostly obliterated by later trimming. Original numbering of pieces, 1-11 (last piece not numbered). Rebound in modern covers of black cardboard. No index. Copied by a single scribe. Staff height 9. No initials or decoration. No watermarks visible.

After 1536 (StaeNQ). Presumably of south German or Swiss origin. Formerly bound together with the prints RISM 1535/10 and 1535/11 (exemplar of latter was second edition of 1536, not catalogued separately in RISM). Composite volume once owned by Landesbibliothek in Bern; given to present library in 1915. At Zürich, manuscript and printed sections were separated, rebound, and assigned different call numbers; printed portions now "Mus. 908"; manuscript portion now "Q, 906."

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

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Known composers

Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages Item title Attribution in Source
Works by
Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)
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‡ 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: 344. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv Kassel and Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (editor). 1983. Das Tenorlied: Mehrstimmige Lieder in deutschen Quellen 1450-1580. Band 2: Handschriften. Catalogus Musicus, vol. X.  Kassel, Basel, Tours, and London. Pages: 343. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1978. Neue Quellen zur mehrstimmigen Musik des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts in der Schweiz. Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 3: 57-83. Pages: 74-6, Abb. 9. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II, vol. 28/I-III.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I,xlvi,28,30,81; III,49. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Geering, Arnold. 1933. Die Vokalmusik in der Schweiz zur Zeit der Reformation. Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 6: . Pages: 5,55 [erroneously referred to as MS S. 284]. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description