PL-WRu MS XV.Q.1066a

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland

fragment: c. 1425--1450

Archive Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland (PL-WRu)
Shelfmark MS XV.Q.1066a
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements originally 276 x 213 mm
Notations
  • black full mensural
Provenance
  • Silesia, Poland
Contents Contains 3 compositions, 3 are anonymous.
General Description

A single fragmentary folio containing parts of a motet and cantiones. Used as a guardsheet for Robert Caracciolius 'Opera varia' (Venice 1485) (shelfmark XV.Q.1066); slight loss at margin and a narrow strip from the middle. From a larger manuscript, as recto carries folio number '20'. Contains fragments of 3 polyphonic compositions, by at least 2 scribes.

Probably from SIlesia.

DIAMM, 2021
Watermark

None.

DIAMM, 2021
Foliation

original foliation '20' visible

DIAMM, 2021

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
20r [Adde vero?] ... non inveniebatur adiutor. Similis sibi dixit 1 - Anonymous

[Adde vero?] ... non inveniebatur adiutor. Similis sibi dixit

Anonymous
Appears on: 20r
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 1
General Note

end of a single voice-part. Possibly from a multi-voice composition (motet?)
20r Ex stirpe paganorum 2 - Anonymous

Ex stirpe paganorum

Anonymous
Appears on: 20r
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
20v Manarunt facule ... Haec mihi tremorem 2 - Anonymous

Manarunt facule ... Haec mihi tremorem

Anonymous
Appears on: 20v
Genres: Cantilena
Number of voices: 2
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
[Adde vero?] ... non inveniebatur adiutor. Similis sibi dixit Anonymous 20r
Ex stirpe paganorum Anonymous 20r
Manarunt facule ... Haec mihi tremorem Anonymous 20v

‡ denotes primary source study

Gancarczyk, Pawel. 2020. Fragments of Local Polyphony in Late Medieval Central Europe: Towards a Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Sources. Disiecta Membra: Studies in Musical Fragmentology, Studies in Manuscript Cultures, vol. 21. 165-182. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. Pages: 168-9, 172-4. Notes: description; contents (partial).

Gancarczyk, Pawel. 2013. A New Fragment of 15th-Century Polyphony in Silesia and the Tradition of the Central-European Repertory. The Musical Culture of Silesia before 1742: New Contexts, New Perspectives, 45-54. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang. Notes: description; contents; facsimile.

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