PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Bassus]

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland

partbook: 1578

Archive Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland (PL-WRu)
Shelfmark MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Bassus]
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System None / Unknown
Measurements 153 x 201 mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
Relationships
Provenance
Contents Contains 3 compositions, 3 are anonymous.
General Description

A fragment of a Bassus partbook from a set of five volumes, each of which consists of the prints RISM L851, U120, U122, and K990, with manuscript additions. Copied by a single scribe, who also wrote portions of most other WrocU manuscripts. Copied in Brieg (= Brzeg). Formerly owned by Brieg Gymnasial-Bibliothek; transferred to present location in 1890.

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Physical Description

most of the original manuscript additions now missing from the Bassus book

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Binding

Rebound in modern covers of black cardboard; each book has modern paper flyleaf at front and back. Original parchment covers cut from chant manuscript now bound in as second flyleaf at front and penultimate flyleaf at back of DATQ books

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Watermark

crown

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

No foliation or pagination

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Decoration

Inked initials, some in plain block style, others in calligraphic style

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Surface

paper

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DIAMM Note

Kuhn's catalogue numbers the prints 8-11. The manuscript pieces are: 1-7 at the beginning; 12-43 at the end. Most of Bassus book lost (only nos. 1-3 present); nos. 4-7 in D & T books only; A does not have nos 1-7.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
(1) Surrexit Christus hodie alleluia / Erstanden ist der Herre Christ - - Anonymous

Surrexit Christus hodie alleluia / Erstanden ist der Herre Christ

Anonymous
Appears on: (1)
Genres: Motet
(2) Heut triumphiret Gottes Sohn der vom todt - - Anonymous

Heut triumphiret Gottes Sohn der vom todt

Anonymous
Appears on: (2)
Genres: Motet
(3) Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist - - Anonymous

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

Anonymous
Appears on: (3)
Genres: Chorale, Sacred Song
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Heut triumphiret Gottes Sohn der vom todt Anonymous (2)
Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist Anonymous (3)
Surrexit Christus hodie alleluia / Erstanden ist der Herre Christ Anonymous (1)

Set: MS Brieg.Musik. K.54

Type: Partbooks

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PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Altus]

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PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Bassus]

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PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Discantus]

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PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Quintus]

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PL-WRu MS Brieg.Musik. K.54 [Tenor]

‡ denotes primary source study

Youens, Laura. 1978. Music for the Lutheran Mass in Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS. Thomaskirche 49/50. Indiana University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 764-5. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Walter, George R. 1975. The Five-Voice Motets of Thomas Crecquillon. University of West Virginia, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 246, 340-1. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten.  Amsterdam. Pages: VII, iv, vii-xi [sometimes incorrectly referred to as MS K 52]. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Kuhn, Friedrich. 1896. Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Alten Musikalien -Handschriften und Druckwerke-des Königlichen Gymnasiums zu Brieg. Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte, 28: . Pages: 36-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; concordances (partial).

Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich.  Graz and Vienna. Pages: CIII/CIV, 201-1. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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