D-Z Mu 1622-1647 [Bassus]

Ratsschulbibliothek, Zwickau, Germany

partbook: c. 1535-45

Archive Ratsschulbibliothek, Zwickau, Germany (D-Z)
Shelfmark Mu 1622-1647 [Bassus]
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System None / Unknown
Measurements 71 x 85 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ZwiR 78/3
  • Other catalogues/source: VollBM [see bibliography] 12
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MS 69.1.37
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MS 78,3
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MS LXXVIII,3
Notations
  • black void mensural
Relationships
Provenance
  • Zwickau? Saxony, Germany
Contents 28 pieces from 13 composers
General Description

A Bassus partbook from a set of three volumes. Copied by two main scribes (nos. 1-10, 11-25) and one additional scribe (no. 26) (BrowZ). Probably copied in Zwickau. Owned by Stephan Roth (1492-1546), rector of Latin school at Zwickau 1517-20, city scribe of Zwickau 1526-46. Bequeathed by Roth to Zwickau Ratsschulbibliothek in 1546.

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Extent

54 leaves

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Binding

Original covers of brown parchment or leather, inscribed with voice designations; all three books now bound together in modern covers of speckled green cardboard

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Watermark

crown surmounted by cross (not in Briquet, but see Briquet #5008 for general pattern)

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Foliation

No foliation or pagination.

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Decoration

No decorative initials; attributions in red ink.

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Index

none

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DIAMM Note

Original numbering of pieces, 1-26 (many pieces numbered twice, once in red ink, once in black)

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Mass Ordinary section (without text), 2 motets (without text), 13 French secular pieces (without text), 3 Italian secular pieces (2 without text; 1 with text incipit "Fortuna"), 1 Dutch secular piece (without text), 1 German secular piece (without text), 5 textless pieces = 26

A. Agricola-1, A. Agricola/(Compère)-1, M. Agricola-1, (Com-père)-4, (Compère/Tinctoris)-1, (Craen)-1, (Hayne van Ghize-ghem)-1, Isaac-4, Isaac/(A. Agricola)-1, (Isaac/La Rue)-1, Jos-quin-3, (Obrecht)-1, Obrecht/(Isaac/Weerbecke)-1, (Senfl)-1, anon-4

3 paper partbooks (D-51 folios, T-47, B-54), 71 x 85. No foliation or pagination. Original numbering of pieces, 1-26 (many pieces numbered twice, once in red ink, once in black). Original covers of brown parchment or leather, inscribed with voice designations; all three books now bound together in modern covers of speckled green cardboard. No index. Copied by two main scribes and one additional scribe (BrowZ). No decorative initials; attributions in red ink. Watermark: crown surmounted by cross (not in Briquet, but see Briquet #5008 for general pattern).

Ca. 1535-45. Probably copied in Zwickau. Owned by Stephan Roth (1492-1546), rector of Latin school at Zwickau 1517-20, city scribe of Zwickau 1526-46. Bequeathed by Roth to Zwickau Ratsschulbibliothek in 1546.

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] Ich stund an einem morgen heimlich [S165 - 3vv] -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Song
[-] untexted - Anonymous

untexted

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: textless
[-] Si dormiero (O mitis mater Christi) 14.13 -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
[-] Ecce video caelos apertos 19.2 -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
[-] untexted - Anonymous

untexted

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: textless
[-] untexted - Anonymous

untexted

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: textless
[-] untexted - Anonymous

untexted

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: textless
[-] Tandernacken liegt an dem Rhein -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Song
[-] Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus Isaac
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus], Troped Sanctus
Source Attribution: Isaac
[-] Fortuna [desperata] - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson, textless
[-] Fortuna [desperata] - Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson, textless
[-] Fortuna desperata iniqua e maledecta -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Italian secular
General Note

presented as '2a pars' of the preceding piece, but identical with ?Isaac's 'Fortuna desperata'

[-] Allez regrets - 1a pars (of 2): Allez regrets vuides de ma présence -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson, Contrafactum, Motet
[-] Allez mon coeur dèla la mer a travers -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] Cela sans plus et plus hola Josquin
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Josquin
[-] Ne doibt on prendre quand on donne -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] Le renvoi d'un coeur esgaré -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] Venes regrets venes il en est heure -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] Madame helas 27.24 (= Dux Carlus WA 19) Josquin
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Josquin
[-] La stangetta (= Ortus de caelo) Obrecht
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Obrecht
[-] Mes pensées ne me laissent une heure 27.26 -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] J'ai beau huer avant que bien avoir -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] Helas le bon temps que j'avoie (= Helas Abraham) -
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
[-] La plus des plus seule sans per 27.22 Josquin
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Josquin
[-] Helas que devera mon coeur 27.14 Isaac
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Isaac
[-] Adieu fillette de regnon Isaac
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Chanson
Source Attribution: Isaac
[-] La morra dona gentile (= Veni sancte spiritus Reple tuorum corda fidelium) (= Elaes) (= O regina) Isaac
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Italian secular
Source Attribution: Isaac
[-] untexted Martini Agricoli
Appears on: [-]
Genres: textless
Source Attribution: Martini Agricoli
Composer Compositions
Agricola, Alexander (ca. 1445–1506)
Agricola, Martin (ca. 1486–1556)
Anonymous
Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518)
Craen, Nicolaus (ca. 1440–1502)
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497)
Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450–1517)
Obrecht, Jacobus (ca. 1457–1505)
Rue, Pierre de la (ca. 1452–1518)
Senfl, Ludwig (ca. 1486–ca. 1543)
Tinctoris, Johannes (ca. 1435–1511)
Weerbecke, Gaspar van (ca. 1445–ca. 1516)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Adieu fillette de regnon [-]
Allez mon coeur dèla la mer a travers [-]
Allez regrets - 1a pars (of 2): Allez regrets vuides de ma présence [-]
Cela sans plus et plus hola [-]
Ecce video caelos apertos 19.2 [-]
Fortuna [desperata] Anonymous [-]
Fortuna [desperata] Anonymous [-]
Fortuna desperata iniqua e maledecta [-]
Helas le bon temps que j'avoie (= Helas Abraham) [-]
Helas que devera mon coeur 27.14 [-]
Ich stund an einem morgen heimlich [S165 - 3vv] [-]
J'ai beau huer avant que bien avoir [-]
La morra dona gentile (= Veni sancte spiritus Reple tuorum corda fidelium) (= Elaes) (= O regina) [-]
La plus des plus seule sans per 27.22 [-]
La stangetta (= Ortus de caelo) [-]
Le renvoi d'un coeur esgaré [-]
Madame helas 27.24 (= Dux Carlus WA 19) [-]
Mes pensées ne me laissent une heure 27.26 [-]
Missa Quant j'ai au coeur: Benedictus [-]
Ne doibt on prendre quand on donne [-]
Si dormiero (O mitis mater Christi) 14.13 [-]
Tandernacken liegt an dem Rhein [-]
untexted Anonymous [-]
untexted Anonymous [-]
untexted Anonymous [-]
untexted Anonymous [-]
untexted [-]
Venes regrets venes il en est heure [-]

Set: MS 78,3

Type: Partbooks

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Brown, Howard Mayer. 1985. Music for a Town Official in Sixteenth-Century Zwickau. Musica Antiqua: Acta Scientifica [Bydgoszcz, Poland], Musica Antiqua: Acta Scientifica [Bydgoszcz, Poland]. 479-91. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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: 104-5,339-40,349,368. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Brown, Howard Mayer (editor). 1983. A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments of Renaissance Music.  Chicago and London. Pages: 147-8,198,209-12,215,221, 262,289,296. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Atlas, Allan W. 1981. Conflicting Attributions in Italian Sources of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson, c. 1465-c. 1505: A Progress Report on a New Hypothesis. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts,  Cambridge. Pages: 283. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kämper, Dietrich. 1980. La stangetta-eine Instrumentalkomposition Gåspars van Weerbeke? Ars Musica, Musica Scientia: Festschrift Heinrich Huschen zum fünfundsechzigsten Geburtstag, Beiträge zur Rheinischen Musikgeschichte. 277-88. Cologne. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Baker, Norma Klein. 1978. An Unnumbered Manuscript of Polyphony in the Archives of the Cathedral of Segovia: Its Provenance and History. University of Maryland, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 58-9, 293-4,431-2,453,462,466,478,483. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Youens, Laura. 1978. Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49/50. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 339-40,727. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hudson, Barton (editor). 1977. Hayne van Ghizeghem: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii,xxvii,xxxiv. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Staehelin, Martin. 1977. Die Messen Heinrich Isaacs. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft Serie II.  Bern and Stuttgart. Pages: I,xlvi,32-4,72. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Melin, William (editor). 1976. Johannes Tinctoris: Collected Works. Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xiii-xiv. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies.  Brooklyn. Pages: I,81,126,174,187,203. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 98, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Finscher, Ludwig. 1964. Loyset Compere: Life and Works. Musicological Studies and Documents.  American Institute of Musicology. Pages: 38,50-2,54. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Lerner, Edward R (editor). 1961-70. Alexandrí Agricola: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V,xxi-xxii,xxxi. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (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: I,376. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 149ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde.  Leipzig. Pages: I,465. Notes: physical description (partial).

Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1908-21. Reprint: Farnborough, England, 1968. Werken van Jacob Obrecht.  Leipzig and Amsterdam,. Pages: XV/XVI,viii,45-7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: XXVIII,174, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Vollhardt, Reinhard. 1893-6. Bibliographie der Musik-Werke in der Ratsschulbibliothek zu Zwickau. Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, . Pages: 28-30. Notes: physical description (partial); incipits.

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