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.
| Archive | Ratsschulbibliothek, Zwickau, Germany (D-Z) |
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| 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 |
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| Contents | Contains 27 compositions, 22 from 12 composers, 5 are anonymous. |
General Description
Extent
54 leaves
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
Watermark
crown surmounted by cross (not in Briquet, but see Briquet #5008 for general pattern)
Foliation
No foliation or pagination.
Decoration
No decorative initials; attributions in red ink.
Index
none
DIAMM Note
Original numbering of pieces, 1-26 (many pieces numbered twice, once in red ink, once in black)
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.
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MS 78,3
Partbooks · 3 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
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], vol. VII. 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, vol. VII. 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, vol. 126. 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, vol. 74. 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, vol. 28/I-III. 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, vol. 18. 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, vol. 27. 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, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 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, vol. 12. 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, vol. 22. 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, vol. 5. 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, 26: . Pages: 28-30. Notes: physical description (partial); incipits.
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