I-PAVu Pergamene sparse, scatola 4, n.8 ('San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex')

Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy

Fragment: Late 14th century

Archive Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy (I-PAVu)
Shelfmark Pergamene sparse, scatola 4, n.8 ('San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex')
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System None / Unknown
Measurements 512-518 x 375-383 mm
Notations
  • black full mensural
Provenance
  • Milano (Milan), Italy
Contents 5 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

A large bifolio fragment of a codex, discovered in October 2019 by Giuseppe Mascherpa and Federico Saviotti, and restored in winter 2020. The fragment had been re-used as the cover for the canon law essay Tractatus de irregularitatibus by Bartolomeo Ugolini, printed in Venice in 1601. It contains 2 virelais and 2 rondeaux all in 2vv with untexted Tenors, and 2 texted voices of a Credo probably originally in 4vv; all are unica. These are on f.1rv, while f.2rv is ruled but has no music; it is possible therefore that work on the planned codex may not have been completed. Text and music copied in the same ink, possibly by a single scribe.

Scatola 4, the case in which the fragment is kept, also contains 3 parchment strips from the book covering which relate to the large fragment. The reconstructed bifolio would have been larger even than Squarcialupi.

A second bifolio from the same codex was discovered by Anne Stone at the Biblioteca Trivulziana in Milan, also in 2019 (re-used as the binding of I-Mt 1759).

An ex libris in the book records that it was at some point in the Jesuits' library in Milan ("Domus Professae societatis Iesu Mediolani Inscriptus Cathalogo") When that closed in 1773 the book passed to the Braidense Library at the Palazzo Brera, and thence was donated to Pavia, presumably as a duplicayte, before 1780 when it is recorded in a catalogue there.

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Notation

fourteenth-century black notation using dragmae, including an unknown form of ‘dragma brevis’; a case of half-coloration & an unusual treatment of coloration in a cadence.

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Ruling

fourteen red five-line staves with line spacing of 3.625 mm (though one stave is 6 lines)

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Foliation

The pages are not numbered; modern foliation.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1 La nuit que est tant obscure - Anonymous

La nuit que est tant obscure

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Virelai

Item Bibliography

Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Pages: 102-106, 116-7, 119-120. Notes: transcription, edition.

1 Se la playsant chiera veoyr povoye - Anonymous

Se la playsant chiera veoyr povoye

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Rondeau

Item Bibliography

Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Pages: 106-108, 117, 121-3. Notes: transcription, edition.

1 Aves moy passoyt un flour - Anonymous

Aves moy passoyt un flour

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Rondeau

Item Bibliography

Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Pages: 108-113, 117, 124-5. Notes: transcription, edition.

1 Tant jolis et gay sans melencolie - Anonymous

Tant jolis et gay sans melencolie

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Virelai

Item Bibliography

Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Pages: 113-116, 117, 126-7. Notes: transcription, edition.

1v Credo - Anonymous

Credo

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
General Note

Incomplete: 220 tempora remain, ending at "...non erit finis"

Item Bibliography

Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Pages: 118, 128-133. Notes: edition.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Aves moy passoyt un flour Anonymous 1
Credo Anonymous 1v
La nuit que est tant obscure Anonymous 1
Se la playsant chiera veoyr povoye Anonymous 1
Tant jolis et gay sans melencolie Anonymous 1

‡ denotes primary source study

‡ Calvia, Antonio, and Federico Saviotti. 2023. The San Fedele-Belgioioso Codex: A New Source of Secular and Liturgical Polyphony (the Pavia Fragment). Studi musicali, 51-137. Notes: description of ms; physical description; contents; facsimiles; transcriptions.

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