US-NHub 710

Yale University, Beinecke Library for Rare Books and Manuscripts, New Haven, United States

Missal with added polyphony: 15th century, with later additions

Archive Yale University, Beinecke Library for Rare Books and Manuscripts, New Haven, United States (US-NHub)
Shelfmark 710
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 720 x 500 mm
Notations
  • black square
  • black void mensural
External Links
Provenance
  • Toledo? Spain
Contents Contains 2 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

An ordinarium missae from ?Toledo, Spain, containing many tropes, known as the 'Rosary Cantoral'. Added later, on f. 91r, is a substitute 'Et incarntus est' attributed to 'Jusquin' (Josquin des Prez) excerpted from his Missa sine nomine, and on f. 93v an untexted piece, perhaps a similar extract from a polyphonic ordinary.

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Extent

111 folios.

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Binding

Boards covered with leather

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
91 Missa Sine nomine - Et incarnatus est Jusquin
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)

Missa Sine nomine - Et incarnatus est

Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
Appears on: 91
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Source Attribution: Jusquin
Number of voices: 4
General Note

'Et incarnatus est' section only. Canonic voices written out in full.
93v untexted - Anonymous

untexted

Anonymous
Appears on: 93v
Genres: textless
Number of voices: 4
General Note

O3 mensuration suggests this is an extract from (the end of?) a longer piece - e.g. a 'Cum sancto spiritu' from a Gloria setting?
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450-1521)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Missa Sine nomine - Et incarnatus est
Despres, Josquin (ca. 1450–1521)
91
untexted Anonymous 93v

‡ denotes primary source study

Candelaria, Lorenzo F. 2008. The Rosary Cantoral: ritual and social design in a chantbook from early Renaissance Toledo.  University Rochester Press.

Candelaria, Lorenzo F. 2006. Tropes for the Ordinary in a 16th-century Chantbook from Toledo, Spain. Early Music, 34: 587-611.

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