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
Provenance
  • Bavaria?
  • Bolzano? North-eastern Italy
Contents 17 pieces from 7 composers
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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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
no.1 Alma redemptoris mater (IJD3) II: Tu que genuisti III: Virgo prius ac posterius -
Appears on: no.1
Genres: Alma redemptoris mater, BVM, Motet
no.2 [unidentified fragment] - Anonymous
Appears on: no.2
Genres: textless
no.3 Beata mater et innupta (2p. Gloriosa regina mundi 3p. Intercede pro nobis) -
Appears on: no.3
Genres: Motet
no.4 Descendi in ortum meum ut viderem -
Appears on: no.4
Genres: Motet
no.5 Ibo mihi ad montem - Anonymous

Ibo mihi ad montem

Anonymous
Appears on: no.5
Genres: Motet
no.6 Ibo mihi ad montem -
Appears on: no.6
Genres: Motet
no.7 Nigra sum - Anonymous

Nigra sum

Anonymous
Appears on: no.7
Genres: Motet
no.8 O rosa bella, o Deitatis cella (= O quam suavis est domina) wenigan (=Bedingham)
Appears on: no.8
Genres: Motet
Source Attribution: wenigan (=Bedingham)
General Note

with Latin contrafact text as in Trent copies. With additional 'Tenor gemellicus' & 'Tenor duellicus' equivalent to the 'Alius gimel' & 'Gimel' voices in Tr90

no.9 Qualis est dilectus meus / O pulcherima mulierum -
Forest (?)
Appears on: no.9
Genres: Motet
no.10 Quam pulchra es et quam decora - Anonymous
Appears on: no.10
Genres: Motet
no.11 Quam pulchra es -
Appears on: no.11
Genres: Motet
no.12 Quam pulchra es -
Appears on: no.12
Genres: Motet
no,13 Salve regina mater misericordiae - Anonymous
Appears on: no,13
Genres: BVM, Motet, Salve Regina
no.14 Salve regina mater misericordiae - Anonymous
Appears on: no.14
Genres: BVM, Motet, Salve Regina
no.15 Salve regina mater misericordiae - Anonymous
Appears on: no.15
Genres: BVM, Motet, Salve Regina
no.16 Veni sancte spiritus reple - Anonymous
Appears on: no.16
Genres: Antiphon
no.17 Veni sancte spiritus reple - Anonymous
Appears on: no.17
Genres: Antiphon

denotes primary source study

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

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