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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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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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