B-BRsa 538, Muziekfragmenten 87-96

Stadsarchief, Bruges, Belgium

fragments of polyphony and chant: c. 1525-1550

Archive Stadsarchief, Bruges, Belgium (B-BRsa)
Shelfmark 538, Muziekfragmenten 87-96
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements various
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • Netherlands
Contents Contains 8 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 7 are anonymous.
General Description

A collection of folios, dating from approx. 1525-1550, many (or all?) from the same book. Schreurs refers to them as A-H, of which 2 are chant fragments not catalogued here; presumably 2 other folios are non-musical?

Fr. C appears to be reversed (Cv the recto, Cr the verso) while Bv contains sketches for one of the pieces on C. Frr. D-E also belong together, the opening Dv-Er containing all 6vv of "Jamais de ma femme" while Ev contains sketches for the same piece. Fr.F is a bifolio with 6vv of a textles piece written on one side (F1v-F2r); the reverse (like that of fr. A) is apparently blank.

As the fragments include sketches as well as fair copies of some pieces, they may be from a composer's notebook.

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Physical Description

Folio measurements: A 250 x 220 mm; B 302 x 215 mm; C 290 x 210 mm; D 290 x 210 mm; E 280 x 212 mm; F 303 x 440 mm

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Notation

Void mensural notation. (Note: the chant fragments too are written in mensural notation)

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Foliation

Shelfmark suggests folios are numbered 87-96; Schreurs calls them A-H (presumably not listing 2 non-musical or blank folios?) of which G-H are chant fragments not listed here. The DIAMM inventory follows Schreurs since correlation between the 2 numbering systems is not known.

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‡ denotes primary source study

‡ Schreurs, Eugeen. 1995. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages-Renaissance).  Leuven. Pages: 121-2. Notes: discussion; facsimile.

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jos haring

Monday, 14 March, 2022

This manuscript folio only contains a textless music fragment with an incipit "Au bois de deulx". It is further discussed in Eugeen Schreurs: An Anthology of Music Fragnents from the Low Countries (Leuven, 1995), which also has a facsimile.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

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