An Altus partbook from a set originally of six volumes. Copied by a single scribe. Probably copied in Ferrara.
D-W Cod. Guelf. 293 Musica Handschrift [Altus]
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
partbook: c. 1560
| Archive | Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (D-W) |
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| Shelfmark | Cod. Guelf. 293 Musica Handschrift [Altus] |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 280-4 x 210 mm |
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| Provenance |
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| Contents | Contains 112 compositions, 96 from 9 composers, 16 are anonymous. |
General Description
Extent
i + 64 leaves
Binding
Original covers of red leather over boards, blind tooled and gold tooled with voice designations and decorative border designs.
Watermark
(1) bow and arrow in circle, surmounted by fleur-de-lis (see Briquet #760-2 for general pattern); (2) resembles Briquet #3415; (3) ladder in circle (not in Briquet).
Date
c. 1560 (StaeML)
Ruling
Staff height 13.
Foliation
New pencil foliation.
Decoration
Inked calligraphic initials.
Index
none
DIAMM Note
First series of pieces has original ink numbering in Roman numerals, i-l [I-L i.e., 1-50]; second series has original ink numbering, 60-79 (excludes last four pieces; several partes counted as separate items), and also modern numbering, 51-64 (last piece not numbered; #58 and #61 applied to two sections of single piece).
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Cod. Guelf. 293 Musica Handschrift
Partbooks · 5 sources
‡ denotes primary source study
Lowinsky, Edward E. 1986. Cipriano de Rore's Venus Motet: Its Poetic and Pictorial Sources. College of Fine Arts and Communications, Brigham Young University. Pages: 75-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Staehelin, Martin. 1985. Musikalischer Lustgarten: Kostbare Zeugnisse der Musikgeschichte. Pages: 64-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Macey, Patrick. 1983. Savonarola and The Sixteenth-Century Motet. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 36: 422-52. Pages: 440-l. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Lewis, Mary Stuart. 1979. Antonio Gardane and His Publications of Sacred Music, 1538-55. Brandeis University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 233-7, 412-3, 437, 476-8, 8l6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Owens, Jessie Ann. 1979. An Illuminated Manuscript of Motets by Cipriano de Rore (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. B). Princeton University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 65, 226-34, 238. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Rifkin, Joshua. 1974. New Light on Music Manuscripts at the Court of Ferrara in the Reigns of Alfonso I and Hercules II. Paper presented at the New England Renaissance Conference at Durham, New Hampshire, October 26, 1974, . Pages: [author has withdrawn claim that Ferrarese court scribe Jean Michel copied WolfA 293]. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Johnson, Alvin Harold. 1954. The Liturgical Music of Cipriano de Rore. Yale University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 336ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Vogel, Emil. 1890. Die Handschriften nebst den alteren Druckwerken der MusikAbtheilung der Herzogt Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel. Die Handschriften der Herzogliche Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel, vol. 8. Wolfenbüttel. Pages: 58-60. Notes: physical description; contents list.
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