A-Iu 732

Universitätsbibliothek, Innsbruck, Austria

theory treatise: 1523

Archive Universitätsbibliothek, Innsbruck, Austria (A-Iu)
Shelfmark 732
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 150 x 100 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: InnsU 732
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • Southern Germany or Austria
General Description

Unidentified treatise on ff. 140-148 (contains no polyphonic examples); unidentified textless pieces on ff. 155'-171'. Treatises copied by Pancratius Schmider or Zolhauser, named in colophons on ff. 52, 94', and 139; ff. 155'-171 ' copied by different, slightly later hand. Probably of south German or Austrian origin. Original owner and compiler was Pancratius Schmider or Zolhauser. Inscription inside front cover probably refers to later 16th-century owner: 'Abraham figulus [crossed out] / in omnibus oportet imitari quod melius est.' Later in Neustift Augustinian monastery near Bressanone (= Brixen); transferred to Innsbruck Universitätsbibliothek in 1809.

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Physical Description

Several original folios now missing at beginning and end.

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Binding

Original covers of blind-stamped leather over pasteboard; remnants of leather ties.

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Notation

Gothic Hufnagel (monophonic examples); black void mensural (polyphonic examples)

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Date

1523 (dated colophons in treatises); pieces on ff. 155'-171' are apparently slightly later additions.

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation, 1-171.

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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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Treatises on music, including Andreas Ornithoparchus: Musice active micrologus, with polyphony:

37 textless examples in Ornithoparchus treatise, 20 textless pieces added at end of treatises = 57

Isaac-1, anon-56

171 paper folios, 150 x 100. Several original folios now missing at beginning and end. Modern pencil foliation, 1-171. New ff. 52'-55', 95-95', 112', 128, and 148'-155 are blank. Original covers of blind-stamped leather over pasteboard; remnants of leather ties. Ornithoparchus treatise on ff. 1-139', apparently copied from Leipzig prints of 1517; unidentified treatise on ff. 140-148 (contains no polyphonic examples); unidentified textless pieces on ff. 155'-171'. Monophonic examples copied in Gothic Hufnagel notation; polyphony in black void mensural notation. Treatises copied by Pancratius Schmider or Zolhauser, named in colophons on ff. 52, 94', and 139; ff. 155'-171 ' copied by different, slightly later hand. No initials or decoration.

1523 (dated colophons in treatises); pieces on ff. 155'-171' are apparently slightly later additions. Probably of south German or Austrian origin. Original owner and compiler was Pancratius Schmider or Zolhauser. Inscription inside front cover probably refers to later 16th-century owner: "Abraham figulus [crossed out] / in omnibus oportet imitari quod melius est." Later in Neustift Augustinian monastery near Bressanone (= Brixen); transferred to Innsbruck Universitätsbibliothek in 1809.

No literature.

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. General Description; Physical Description Note; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface 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