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St Isidore's College (Collegio S. Isidoro), Rome, Italy

non-music MS with added polyphony: second half of 15th century

Archive St Isidore's College (Collegio S. Isidoro), Rome, Italy (I-Rwl)
Shelfmark 1/88
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 128 x 99 mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
Provenance
  • Northern Italy
Contents Contains 9 compositions, 9 are anonymous.
General Description

A collection of theological texts and texts for Italian laude and Latin hymns. Eight of these have polyphonic settings for 2 and 3 voices (there is also one monodic hymn setting), Settings of all but one of these pieces appear in other sources. Several texts without music are known with music, or with 'cantasi come...' instructions, in other sources.

Lauda and hymn settings are on ff. 12-15v, in a fascicle bound into a section of lauda and hymn texts; and on ff. 16 and 44. The music is in a number of hands.

Probably from a Franciscan convent in north Italy, though annotstions and additions continued to be made until the early seventeenth century. seventeenth century

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Extent

268 folios

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Binding

modern cardboard covers glued heavily to the spine

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Notation

black void mensural, but without any mensuration signs. The musical notation is not always mensurally correct.

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Date

on f. 205, copied later than the music, is the date 'MCCCCCLXXXV' (1585)

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Foliation

1-253 (plus 16 blank pages)

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
12 Verbum caro factum est 3 - Anonymous

Verbum caro factum est

Anonymous
Appears on: 12
Genres: Lauda
Number of voices: 3
12v Vergene madre pia 2 - Anonymous

Vergene madre pia

Anonymous
Appears on: 12v
Genres: Lauda
Number of voices: 2
13 Jesu dulcis memoria 2 - Anonymous

Jesu dulcis memoria

Anonymous
Appears on: 13
Genres: Hymn
Number of voices: 2
13v–14 O Jesu dolce o infinit' amore 2 - Anonymous

O Jesu dolce o infinit' amore

Anonymous
Appears on: 13v–14
Genres: Lauda
Number of voices: 2
14v [blank staves] - - -

[blank staves]

Appears on: 14v
15 Veni creator spiritus 3 - Anonymous

Veni creator spiritus

Anonymous
Appears on: 15
Genres: Hymn
Number of voices: 3
15 Christe redemptor omnium 2 - Anonymous

Christe redemptor omnium

Anonymous
Appears on: 15
Genres: Hymn
Number of voices: 2
15v Lauda Syon salvatorem 3 - Anonymous

Lauda Syon salvatorem

Anonymous
Appears on: 15v
Genres: Hymn, Sequence
Number of voices: 3
16 Verbum caro factum est (monophonic) 1 - Anonymous

Verbum caro factum est (monophonic)

Anonymous
Appears on: 16
Genres: Lauda
Number of voices: 1
44 Hic est Christus verus filius Dei 2 - Anonymous

Hic est Christus verus filius Dei

Anonymous
Appears on: 44
Genres: Hymn
Number of voices: 2
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Christe redemptor omnium Anonymous 15
Hic est Christus verus filius Dei Anonymous 44
Jesu dulcis memoria Anonymous 13
Lauda Syon salvatorem Anonymous 15v
O Jesu dolce o infinit' amore Anonymous 13v–14
Veni creator spiritus Anonymous 15
Verbum caro factum est Anonymous 12
Verbum caro factum est (monophonic) Anonymous 16
Vergene madre pia Anonymous 12v

‡ denotes primary source study

Carboni, Fabio, and Agostino Ziino. 2012. Polyphonic Laude and Hymns in a Franciscan Codex from the End of the Fifteenth Century. Early Music History, 31: 87–151. Notes: description of ms; discussion; contents; facsimiles; transcriptions.

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