I-Fn MS Magl. XIX.167

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy

partbook: 1530-40 (BecherTI); 1520-5 (PanneCP); c. 1515-c. 1522 (Rifkin)

Archive Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy (I-Fn)
Shelfmark MS Magl. XIX.167
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 107 x 167 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Fn 164-67
  • CCM: FlorBN Magl. 164-7
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Provenance
  • Florence? Italy
Contents Contains 102 compositions, 68 from 22 composers, 34 are anonymous.
General Description

A Bassus partbook from a set of four volumes. The books are in 3 sections separated by blank but ruled leaves: Italian songs, French songs, and Latin motets.

The scribe also appears in portions of FlorC 2440 and FlorBN Magl. 178; the pieces by this scribe in FlorC 2440 were evidently copied directly from this manuscript (Rifkin) and in the same order. Vorrei saper amanti' appears to be by a different scribe (Fenlon/Haar); the Te Deum and 'Se siorsi' (which is in 3vv only) are later additions; and the Discantus also has some jottings in score on f. 112v from the later sixteenth century.

The contents suggest the manuscript was copied in Florence, but the binding suggests Rome. 'The provenance before acquisition by the Biblioteca Palatina is unknown.

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Binding

Original covers of brown tooled leather, with impressed medallion flanked by 'S' and 'C' and surrounded by 'Divus Augustus.'

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Watermark

One of the watermarks, an anvil and hammer, resembles Briquet #5963; the same mark or a similar one is also found in BolC Q21 (Rifkin), FlorBN Magl. 111, 112, and 122-5. Other marks are: crossed arrows similar to Briquet #6293, and an anchor within a circle surmounted by a star.

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Notation

Black void mensural notation

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Date

1530-40 (BecherTI); 1520-5 (PanneCP); c. 1515-c. 1522 (Rifkin, based on the strong presence of Pisano, and absence of Verdelot who superseded him as the leading Florentine madrigalist c. 1522-23).

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Ruling

3 staves per page

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Foliation

Old foliation only in Altus book; new foliation only in Bassus book

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Decoration

As in FlorBN BR 229, FlorBN Magl. 121, and FlorBN Magl. 122-5, the edges of the folios are painted gold, and bear tooled designs (Crawford).

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Index

Original index in Discantus & Tenor books. the latter incomplete.

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

RISM

XVIe s. Papier 110 x 164 mm. 4 livres: Cantus (167), 116ff. + 3ff. limin. portant la Table et 1 f. à la fin; les ff. 56r-v, 85 à 86v, 113 à 115, 116 sont blancs. Au f. 112v, pièce instr. copiée postérieurement. Altus (164), 122ff. + 3ff. limin. et 3 à la fin; les ff. 42r-v, 62r-v, 91v à 92v sont blancs. Tenor (166), 120ff., les ff. 2, 40v, 60v, 87v à 90v, 116 à 119, 120 sont blancs. Au f. 1, Table incomplète du ms. Bassus (165), 120ff. + 2ff. limin. et 2ff. à la fin; les ff. 38 à 40v, 59v à 60v, 89v à 90v, 115v, 116, 117v à 119, 120 sont blancs. Aux ff. 116v-117, pièce instr. copiée postérieurement. Foliotation moderne au bas des ff. et numérotation ancienne de chaque pièce en ch. romains. Au Tenor, foliotation et numérotation anciennes. Notation mesurée blanche. 3 portées par p. Au 1er f. limin. de tous les vol. cachet portant: Med. Palat. Bibl. Caes. Reliures anciennes (dos refait au Cantus) cuir estampé avec médaillon orné d'un buste entouré de l'inscription: Divus Augustus.

Il est très clair que le scribe a suivi un plan préétabli quant à l'ordre des pièces dans le ms. où l'on distingue 3 sections: 1. Chansons italiennes (nos 1 à 45); 2. Chansons françaises (nos 46 à 69); 3. Motets latins (nos 70 à 81), les nos 82 et 83 ayant été copiés postérieurement. Le ms. où la nouvelle école (avec Pisano et S. Festa) côtoie les valeurs sûres (comme Josquin, Isaac ou Compère), se présente ainsi comme le ms. idéal conçu à la fois pour la distraction et pour l'édification d'un amateur de musique, et il est probable qu'il a été compilé dans ce but pour quelque mécène de noble famille florentine. Les datations proposées ne montrent pas de divergences sensibles: 1515-1516 (Bragard); ca. 1520 (Einstein, Rifkin); 1520-1525 (Pannella); ca. 1525 (D'Accone); 1514-1529 (Jeppesen qui s'appuie sur les filigranes du papier que l'on retrouve aussi dans I-Bc 21). Les concordances qui s'établissent avec des recueils imprimés chez Petrucci, Antico et Dorico entre 1510 et 1531, ou avec des mss. copiés ca. 1515-1520, confirment les dates émises ci-dessus, situant ainsi le ms. à l'époque où la musique italienne s'engageait sur la voie du madrigal.

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1 Te Deum, 12 motets, 24 French secular pieces, 49 Italian secular pieces = 86

(Bruhier)-3, (Cara/Pesenti/Tromboncino)-1, (Carpentras)-1, (Compere)-6, (S. Festa)-6 + 2?, (Isaac)-2, (Josquin)-9, (Mouton) -3, (Musicola)-1, (Ninot le Petit)-5, (Obrecht)-1, (Ostia or Santacroce? [F.P.])-2, (Pesenti)-2, (Pipelare)-1, (Pisano)-12 + 7?, (Silva)-1, (Tromboncino)-2, anon-20

4 paper partbooks (D-116 folios, A-122, T-120, B-120), 107x167. Old foliation in altus book; new foliation in bassus. Original covers of brown tooled leather, with impressed medallion flanked by "S" and "C" and surrounded by "Divus Augustus." Original index in discantus book. The scribe also appears in portions of FlorC 2440 and FlorBN Magl. 178; the pieces by this scribe in FlorC 2440 were evidently copied directly from this manuscript (Rifkin). As in FlorBN BR 229, FlorBN Magl. 121, and FlorBN Magl. 122-5, the edges of the folios are painted gold, and bear tooled designs (Crawford). One of the watermarks resembles Briquet #5963; the same mark or a similar one is also found in BolC Q21 (Rifkin), FlorBN Magl. 111, 112, and 122-5. The Te Deum and one of the Italian pieces are later additions.

1530-40 (BecherTI); 1520-5 (PanneCP); ca. 1515-ca. 1522 (Rifkin). Copied in Florence.

Vol 4

Composers: Add "(Leo X)-l"; change "(S. Festa)-6 + 2?" to "(C. Festa/S. Festa)-1, (S. Festa)-5 + 2?"; change "(Ostia or Santacroce? [F.P.])-2" to "(Santacroce)-2"; change "anon-20" to "anon-19."

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Brown, Howard Mayer. 1987. Florence MS Magl. IXI. 164, Facsimile reproduction, with introduction. Renaissance Music in Facsimile.  Garland.

Boorman, Stanley. 1983. Notational Spelling and Scribal Habit. Datierung und Filiation von Musikhandschriften der Josquin-Zeit, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 26.  Wiesbaden. Pages: 78,90,109. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Cummings, Anthony M. 1983. A Florentine Sacred Repertory from the Medici Restoration (Manuscript II. I. 232 [Olim Magi. XIX. 58; Gaddi 1113] of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence): Bibliography and History. Acta Musicologica, 55: 267-332. Pages: 275,280-2,285,289-93,309ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Jonas, Luise. 1983. Das Augsburger Liederbuch: Die Musikhandschrift 2° Codex 142a der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg. Edition und Kommentar. Berliner Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, vol. Band 21 (2 vols.) .  Munich and Salzburg. Pages: II,8, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brown, Howard Mayer. 1981. Words and Music in Early loth-Century Chansons: Text Underlay in Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms Basevi 2442. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 7-141. Munich. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Fenlon, Iain, and James Haar. 1980. A New Source for the Early Madrigal. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 33: 164-80. Pages: 171-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: I, 228 f.

Hudson, Barton (editor). 1979. Ninot le Petit: Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 87.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xiv,xxi-xxiii. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Atlas, Allan W. 1976. The Cappella Giulia chansonnier. (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, CG. XII-27). Musicological Studies, vol. XXVII, 1-2.  Brooklyn. Pages: 246.

Benthem, Jaap van. 1976. Josquin's Three-part 'Chansons rustiques': A Critique of the Readings in Manuscripts and Prints. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971,  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 430ff. Notes: contents list (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gallico, Claudio. 1976. Josquin's Compositions on Italian Texts and the Frottola. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 446-54. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 450. Notes: mention of MS.

Picker, Martin. 1976. Josquiniana in Some Manuscripts at Piacenza. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25June 1971, 247-60. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 253. Notes: mention of MS.

Bernstein, Lawrence F. 1973. "La courone et fleur des chansons a troys" - A mirror of the French Chanson in Italy in the years between Ottaviano Petrucci and Antonio Gardano. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 1ff. Pages: 18 et n. 46. Notes: mention of MS.

Rifkin, Joshua. 1973. Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 305-26. Pages: 312f. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; facsimile (partial).

Drake, George Warren James. 1972. The first printed book of motets, Petrucci's Motteti A numero trentatre (Venice 1502) and Motetti de Passione De cruce De sacramento De beata virgine et huius modi B (Venice 1503): A critical study and complete edition. University of Illinois, Ph.D. Dissertation. Pages: 172-3. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.

Atlas, Allan W. 1971. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Giulia XIII. 27, and the Dissemination of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson in Italy, c. 1460-c. 1530. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 479-81. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; concordances (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A. 1970. Some Neglected Composers in the Florentine Chapels, ca. 1475-1525. Viator, 1: 263-88. Notes: mention of MS.

Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14.  Tutzing. Pages: I, 41; II, 14, 38. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; concordances (partial); transcription (partial).

Benthem, Jaap van. 1968-70. Die Chanson Entré je suis à 4 von Josquin des Prez und ihre Überlieferung. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 21: 203-10. Notes: mention of MS.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, xvii, 45-6, 132-5. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).

Pannella, Liliana. 1968. Le composizioni profane di una raccolta fiorentina del cinquecento. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 3: 3-47. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances.

Bragard, Anne-Marie. 1966. Un manuscrit florentin du quattrocento: le Magi. XIX, 59 (B.R. 229). Revue de Musicologie, 52: 56-72. Pages: 68 n. 5. Notes: mention of MS.

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-xxiv, 11ff. Notes: concordances (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A. 1963. Bernardo Pisano: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Musica Disciplina, 17: 115-35. Pages: 129-30. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Just, Martin. 1963. Heinrich Isaacs Motetten in Italienischen Quellen. Analecta Musicologica, 1: 1-19. Pages: 5. Notes: concordances (partial).

Pannella, Liliana. 1961–62. II canto della "Ramacina" nella tradizione letteraria e musicale. Lares: Journal of the International Folk Music Council, 27 (1961), p. 124ff. and 28 (1962), p. 58ff.: .

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).

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: 355. Notes: concordances (partial).

Becherini, Bianca. 1959. Catalogo dei manoscritti musicali della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze.  Kassel. Pages: 69-71. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Becherini, Bianca. 1953. Tre incatenature del codice fiorentino Magi. XIX. 164-65-66-67. Collectanea Historiae Musicae I, 79-96. Notes: physical description; transcription (partial).

Rubsamen, Walter H. 1951. Music Research in Italian Libraries: An Anecdotal Account of Obstacles and Discoveries.  Los Angeles. Pages: 64. Notes: mention of MS.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1944. Venetian folksongs of the Renaissance. Papers read at the international congress of musicology held at New York September 11th to 16th, 1939, 44ff. New York. Pages: 68f.

Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 107. Notes: concordances (partial).

Einstein, Alfred. 1939. Dante on the way to the madrigal. The Musical Quarterly, 25: 142ff. Pages: 144ff. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); transcription (partial).

Einstein, Alfred. 1939. A Supplement: An Old Music Print at the J. P. Morgan Library at New York. The Musical Quarterly, 25: 507-9. Notes: mention of MS.

Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten.  Amsterdam. Pages: I, v. Notes: physical description.

Smijers, Albert, Myroslaw Antonowycz, and Willem Elders (editors). 1925-, 1926-. Werken van Josquin des Prés: Motetten.  Leipzig/ Amsterdam. Pages: I, p. V et IX.

Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde.  Leipzig. Pages: I, 450II,8, passim. Notes: mention of MS; Dcontents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1908-21. Reprint: Farnborough, England, 1968. Werken van Jacob Obrecht.  Leipzig and Amsterdam,. Pages: XV/XVI, xi. Notes: physical description.

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: XXXII, 238. Notes: physical description.

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