I-BZmg fragment

Biblioteca dei Benedettini, Abbazia di Muri-Gries, Bolzano, North-eastern Italy

fragment: c. 1450-1453

Archive Biblioteca dei Benedettini, Abbazia di Muri-Gries, Bolzano, North-eastern Italy (I-BZmg)
Shelfmark fragment
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Surface Paper
Numbering System None / Unknown
Measurements 286 x 225 mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
Provenance
  • Bavaria?
  • Bolzano? North-eastern Italy
Contents Contains 17 compositions, 8 from 6 composers, 9 are anonymous.
General Description

A fragment containing parts of 17 three-voice polyphonic compositions and dating to the mid-i5th century. It was recovered from the binding of an Urbarium (a register of fief ownership) dated 1506-1628 and listed as belonging to the parish church of Gries, Bolzano, and now held in the archives of the Benedictine monastery of Muri-Gries. Under a single guard-sheet on the inner board were 12 sheets glued together into a solid mass, now separated again; 10 have musical notation, 2 only liturgical texts. Each sheet is cut from a bifolio, but does not correspond to a single sheet of music; there are thus fragments of 20 folios.

Four scribal hands; following Wright's nomenclature for Tr93, the main scribe is 'scribe A' while secondary scribes are 'scribe B' and 'scribe G' and a further scribe not identified in Tr93. There are many concordances with the Trent manuscripts; 3 pieces are apparently unica.

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Binding

The Urbarium is in a sizteenth-century brown leather binding. Some decorative elements on the cover have parallels in Bavaria, a possible provenance for the fragments. Gabrielli however proposes that the fragment (and perhaps Tr93) wa copied in Bolazano.

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Watermark

visible on several leaves: a cross on mounts, which also appears in the first part of Tr93 c.1450-53

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Decoration

Some decorative elements: red ink and one decorated initial.

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denotes primary source study

Gabrielli, Giulia, and Benjamin Barclay. 2015. A new source of Quattrocento music discovered in Bolzano. Early Music, 43/2: 255-267. Notes: description; contents; facsimile (partial).

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