PL-WRu MS XV.Q.1066a

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland

fragment: c. 1425--1450

Archive Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland (PL-WRu)
Shelfmark MS XV.Q.1066a
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements originally 276 x 213 mm
Notations
  • black full mensural
Provenance
  • Silesia, Poland
Contents 3 pieces from 1 composers
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 Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
20r [Adde vero?] ... non inveniebatur adiutor. Similis sibi dixit - Anonymous
Appears on: 20r
Genres: Motet
General Note

end of a single voice-part. Possibly from a multi-voice composition (motet?)

20r Ex stirpe paganorum - Anonymous
Appears on: 20r
Genres: Motet
20v Manarunt facule ... Haec mihi tremorem - Anonymous
Appears on: 20v
Genres: Cantilena
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. 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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