I-Bc Q.21 [Bassus]

Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

partbook: 1523-7 (Rifkin)

Archive Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, Bologna, Italy (I-Bc)
Shelfmark Q.21 [Bassus]
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 130 x 190 mm
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  • black void mensural
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  • Italy
Contents Contains 76 compositions, 23 from 12 composers, 53 are anonymous.
General Description

A Bassus partbook from a set of four volumes. Copied by the same scribe as ChiN M91 (Mitchell Brauner); this copyist was probably Gianpiero Masacone, who wrote FlorD 4, 11, 27, and 28 (Rifkin). A later hand has added a textless piece at the end of each book. Copied in Florence. Later in possession of D. Joseph Rasimus (Rasino) in Ravenna and/or Monte Cassino (inscription on f. 1' of discantus: 'Est S. Vitalis de Rav[enn]a ad usum Rev. mi P[atris] D. Josephi de Rav[enn]a / Abbatis Cassin[ensis]').

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Extent

115 leaves

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Physical Description

Ink in some capitals has corroded through the paper.

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Binding

Original covers of black-brown leather stamped with a gold lozenge design also found on the covers of ChiN M91

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Watermark

resembles Briquet #5963; the same mark or a similar one is also found in FlorBN Magl. 111, 112, 122-5, and 164-7. Another watermark resembles Briquet #760; a similar mark is also found in FlorBN Magl. 125bis (Rifkin)

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Foliation

Modern pencil foliation.

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Decoration

Black inked calligraphic initials. F. 2' of each book has a penned coat of arms (a feather on a shield) surrounded by a circular 5-line staff with a puzzle canon with French text (a different one in each book).

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Index

Original index on ff. 113-114' of the D book.

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RISM Description

RISM

XVIe s. 4 livres de 117 ff. (C), 112 ff. (A), 126 ff. (T), 115 ff. (B). Papier, 131 x 188 mm.

Foliotation moderne et numérotation ancienne des pièces en ch. romains. Les ff. 94 à 112 et 115 à 117v (C), 95 à 112v (A), 104 et 106 à 126v (T), 95 à 115v (B) sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Initiales ornées à la plume avec quelques figures. Aux ff. 113 à 114v du C, table incomplète du ms. Reliures anciennes (dos refaits) en cuir estampé, fers dorés. Livres du Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus.

Au f. lv des 4 livres, une collette de parchemin porte: «Est S. Vitalis de Rav.[enn]a ad usum Rev.[erendissi]mi P.[atris] D. Josephi de Rav.[enn]a / Abbatis Cassinfensis.] 2741.» On apprend ainsi que l'un des utilisateurs du ms. fut D. Joseph de Ravenna (Giuseppe Rasino) dont on trouve la trace au monastère de Montecassino où il est profès (professo) à partir du 17 septembre 1634 et que l'on retrouve dans la liste des abbés de S. Vitale de 1669 à 1674. Le n° 2741 semble indiquer une cote de bibliothèque, probablement celle de l'Ordre de la Congregazione Cassinense à laquelle appartenait D. Joseph de Ravenna.

Au f. 2v des 4 livres, écusson portant une aile d'oiseau en son centre et entouré d'une portée circulaire avec les paroles: «En venant de Lyon et bon bon bon …» (C), «Se je n'ai mon amie …» avec la formule du canon: «Trois testes en ung chapperon» (A), «Mon petit cor n'est pas a may …» (T), «Baysés moy ma douce amie …» (B).

Le ms. copié en Italie (Florence?) par un seul scribe peut se dater vers 1526-1530, époque des débuts du madrigal qui y est représenté par deux des pionniers de ce genre nouveau, Ph. Verdelot avec 8 madrigaux et S. Festa avec 7, en même temps qu'on y trouve encore des frottolistes comme M. Cara et des incatenature (nos 46, 47 et 48) très en vogue au XVe s.

71 chansons italiennes occupent le corps du ms., f. 3 à 91v. Aux p. restées libres à la fin des livres, on a copié postérieurement au f. 92r-v du B: Vergine lieta et bella …, lauda dont on retrouve les paroles dans des recueils du XVIIe s. Du XVIIe s. aussi date probablement le Salve sancte pater patris … à 3vx. et Basso per l'organo, copié dans les 4 livres aux ff. 92v-93 (C), 93v-94 (A), 101v-102 (T), 93-94 (B). En outre, des tableaux de solmisation occupent les ff. 102v-103 du T.

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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71 Italian secular pieces, 1 textless piece, 4 puzzle canons = 76

(Cara/Tromboncino)-1, (Eustachius de Monte Regali)-1, (S. Festa)-7, (G. Fogliano)-1, (Ostia)-1, (Pisano)-2 + 1?, (Tiburtino)-1, (Verdelot)-7, anon-54

4 paper partbooks (D-117 folios, A-112, T-126, B-115), 130 x 190. Original numbering of pieces, I-LXX; modern pencil foliation. Original covers of black-brown leather stamped with a gold lozenge design also found on the covers of ChiN M91. Original index on ff. 113-114' of the discantus book. Copied by the same scribe as ChiN M91 (Mitchell Brauner); this copyist was probably Gianpiero Masacone, who wrote FlorD 4, 11, 27, and 28 (Rifkin). A later hand has added a textless piece at the end of each book. Black inked calligraphic initials. F. 2' of each book has a penned coat of arms (a feather on a shield) surrounded by a circular 5-line staff with a puzzle canon with French text (a different one in each book). One watermark resembles Briquet #5963; the same mark or a similar one is also found in FlorBN Magl. 111, 112, 122-5, and 164-7. Another watermark resembles Briquet #760; a similar mark is also found in FlorBN Magl. 125bis (Rifkin).

1523-7 (Rifkin). Copied in Florence. Later in possession of D. Joseph Rasimus (Rasino) in Ravenna and/or Monte Cassino (inscription on f. 1' of discantus: "Est S. Vitalis de Rav.[enn]a ad usum Rev. mi P.[atris] D. Josephi de Rav.[enn]a / Abbatis Cassin.[ensis]").

Vol 4

Composers: Change "(S. Festa)-7" to "(C. Festa/S. Festa)-1, (S. Festa)-6"; change "(Ostia)-1" to "(Santacroce)-1."

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Fenlon, Iain, and James Haar. 1980. A New Source for the Early Madrigal. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 33: 164-80. Pages: 172-8. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Sadie, Stanley (editor). 1980. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.  London. Pages: XVII,673. Notes: facsimile (partial).

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: I, 74.

Gallico, Claudio. 1976. Josquin's Compositions on Italian Texts and the Frottola. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 446-54. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 453. Notes: mention of MS.

Haar, James. 1976. Some Remarks on the 'Missa La sol fa re mi'. Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference ... 21-25 June 1971, 564-88. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: 572-3,584. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Prizer, William Flaville. 1974. Marchetta Cara and the North Italian Frottola. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,249; II,277,289-95. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).

Rifkin, Joshua. 1973. Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 305-26. Pages: 312. Notes: mention of MS.

D'Accone, Frank A. 1972. Transitional Text Forms and Settings in an Early 10th-Century Florentine Manuscript. Words and Music: The Scholar's View ... Compiled in Honor of A. Tillman Meniti,  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 30,36,57-8. Notes: concordances (partial); mention of MS.

Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14.  Tutzing. Pages: I,186ff,256. Notes: mention of MS.

Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 10,104-7. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances.

Pannella, Liliana. 1968. Le composizioni profane di una raccolta fiorentina del cinquecento. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 3: 3-47. Pages: 41-7. Notes: concordances (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A (editor). 1966. Bernardo Pisano: Collected Works. Vol. I of Music of the Florentine Renaissance. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 32.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: vi-xxvi. Notes: concordances (partial).

D'Accone, Frank A. 1963. Bernardo Pisano: An Introduction to His Life and Works. Musica Disciplina, 17: 115-35. Pages: 115, 129. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Main, Alexander, and Albert Seay (editors). 1962-. Costanza Festa: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 25.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VIII.xiv. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Isaac, Cecil. 1962. Review of Gallico, Claudio: <em>Un Canzionere Musicale Italiano del Cinquecento (Bologna, Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini" Ms. Q 21)</em> (Florence, 1961). The Musical Quarterly, 48: 534-7. Notes: mention of MS.

Gallico, Claudio. 1961. Un Canzionere Musicale Italiano del Cinquecento (Bologna, Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini" Ms. Q 21).  Florence. Pages: (avec facs. du f. 2 des 4 livres).

Jeppesen, Knud. 1944. Venetian folksongs of the Renaissance. Papers read at the international congress of musicology held at New York September 11th to 16th, 1939, 44ff. New York. Pages: 72f.

Torrefranca, Fausto. 1939-42; Reprint: Bologna 1972. II segreto del Quattrocento.  Milano. Pages: 96,123,402. Notes: physical description.

Torchi, Luigi. 1906. I Monumenti dell'antica musica francese a Bologna. Rivista Musicale Italiana, 13: 451-505,575-615. Pages: 503ff.

Gaspari, Gaetano (compiler). 1905. Catalogo della biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna compilato da Gaetano Gaspari: compiuto e pubblicato da Dr Raffaele Cadolini, aggiunto al bibliotecario. 4 vols. Bologna. Pages: III,24. Notes: physical description.

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