An Altus partbook from a set of five volumes. Copied by Erasmus Radewald, Wolfgang Figulus, and others. Copied at the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen, under the direction of Wolfgang Figulus. Following Figulus' death (after 1588), the manuscript went to his son-in-law, Friedrich Birck, cantor at the Fürstenschule St. Augustin in Grimma from 1591 until his death in 1621. After Birck's death, his widow sold the manuscript to the Grimma Fürstenschule; in 1890 it was deposited in the library at Dresden.
| Archive | Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, Germany (D-Dl) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Grimma 53 [Altus] |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 155 x 200 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 46 compositions, 31 from 11 composers, 15 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some folios have been damaged by ink corrosion. At the end several folios are in the wrong sequence.
Binding
Rebound in modern brown cardboard covers
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Mass, 2 Kyrie-Gloria pairs, 1 Kyrie, 1 Sanctus, 4 Mass Proper sections, 1 Te Deum, 1 Canticle, 2 hymns, 14 motets, 3 German sacred pieces = 30
(Clemens non Papa)-1, Figulus-6 + 6?, (Gastritz)-1, (Isaac)-1, Josquin-1, (Senfl)-1, (Stoltzer)-1, (Walter)-1, anon-11
5 paper partbooks (D-87 + i folios, A-i + 102 + i, T-i + 83 + i, B-93 + i, Q-ii + 56 + i), 155 x 200. Some folios have been damaged by ink corrosion. Modern pencil foliation. Rebound in modern brown cardboard covers. No index. Copied by Erasmus Radewald, Wolfgang Figulus, and others.
Ca. 1560-75 (SteudeMS). Copied at the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen, under the direction of Wolfgang Figulus. Following Figulus' death (after 1588), the manuscript went to his son-in-law, Friedrich Birck, cantor at the Fürstenschule St. Augustin in Grimma from 1591 until his death in 1621. After Birck's death, his widow sold the manuscript to the Grimma Fürstenschule; in 1890 it was deposited in the library at Dresden.
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MS Grimma 53 (1-5)
Partbooks · 5 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Steude, Wolfram. 1974. Die Musiksammeihandschriften des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek zu Dresden. Quellenkataloge zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 6. Wilhelmshaven. Pages: 90-l. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances (partial).
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 133. Notes: concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Eitner, Robert. 1877. Wolfgang Figulus. Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, 9: 126-31. Pages: 129. Notes: physical description.
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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