GB-Ob MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229 (Pad A)

Bodleian Library, Oxford, England

non-music MS with added polyphony: Late 14th or early 15th century

Archive Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob)
Shelfmark MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229 (Pad A)
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements c. 320 x 240 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: GB-Ob229
  • CCM: OxfBC 229
  • Other catalogues/source: PadA
Notations
  • black full mensural
Relationships
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Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 11 compositions, 7 from 7 composers, 4 are anonymous.
General Description

Composite of several unrelated items dating from 12th-15th centuries. Contents include theological writings (ff. 1-52 and ff. 58-73'), monophonic music (f. 57), and polyphonic music (ff. 53-56). Polyphony pages belong to same original manuscript as PadU 684 and PadU 1475. A virtual reconstruction of the surviving parts of the original manuscript is here.

Copied by a single scribe. Folios with polyphony copied at St. Giustina Benedictine Abbey in Padua. Remained at St. Giustina until 1797, then taken to Paris. Later acquired by the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice. Canonici collection passed to Giovanni Perissinotti in 1807; sold to Bodleian Library in 1817.

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Binding

Modern cardboard covers; leather spine

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Notation

Black mensural

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Ruling

red staves

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Foliation

53-56v

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Foliation

Modern foliation, 1-73. Original foliation, 33-34; 37-38, still visible on folios with polyphony

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Decoration

Inked Gothic initials.

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
Surface

parchment

Michael Scott Cuthbert (2012)
RISM Description

RISM B/IV 4: 14./15. Jh.; 4 Blätter Pergament, ca. 320 x 240 mm. Originale Foliierung f. 33, 34, 37, 38. Je Seite 10 (f. 38v 11) rote Fünfliniensysteme mit schwarzer Trecentonotation - Einband: 19. Jh.; Karton mit Lederrücken.

Die beiden Doppelblätter, zwischen denen ein weiteres Doppelblätter. fehlt, stammen aus dem Paduaner Kloster S. Giustina (vergleiche Notiz auf f. 37v) und gehörten offenbar zur gleichen Handschrift wie die Fragmente I-Pu684 und I-PU1475. Nach Clercx wurde diese ursprünglich umfangreiche Handschrift im ausgehenden 14. Jh. (oder um 1400) geschrieben. Die beiden Blätter finden sich heute in einem Sammelband der Canonici-Abteilung der Bodleian Library. Sie tragen dort die Foliozahlen 53-56. Auf f. 1-52 (14. Jh.) des Sammelbandes stehen Teile aus den Quaestiones quodlibetales von Thomas von Aquin; f. 57 Notenblatt des 12./13. Jh. mit einstimigen Antiphonen und Responsorien; f. 58-73v (12. Jh.) Briefe des Ambrosius unter anderem.

INCIPITVERZEICHNIS

Die erste Folioziffer bezieht sich auf die Originalfoliierung (vergleiche I-Pu684 und I-Pul475), die zweite auf die Foliierung des Sammelbandes GB-Ob229.

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[Scriptores Ecclesiastici] 229 (= MadanSC 19215) [see also PadU 684 and PadU 1475]

Theological writings, with polyphony:

1 Gloria, 1 Credo, 3 Sanctus, 1 motet, 2 Italian secular pieces, 3 French secular pieces = 11

Barbitonsoris-1, Berlantus [Berlatus]-1, (Ciconia)-1, (Jacopo da Bologna?)-1, Landini [M. Francisci de Florentia]-1, (Machaut)-1, Mediolano-1, anon-4

73 parchment folios, ca. 320 x 240. Composite of several unrelated items dating from 12th-15th centuries. Modern foliation, 1-73. Modern cardboard covers; leather spine. Contents include theological writings (ff. 1-52 and ff. 58-73'), monophonic music (f. 57), and polyphonic music (ff. 53-56). Original foliation, 33-34; 37-38, still visible on folios with polyphony, which belong to same original manuscript as PadU 684 and PadU 1475. Black mensural notation on red staves. Copied by a single scribe. Inked Gothic initials.

Late 14th or early 15th century (ClercxJC). Folios with polyphony copied at St. Giustina Benedictine Abbey in Padua. Remained at St. Giustina until 1797, then taken to Paris. Later acquired by the Jesuit antiquarian Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727-1805) of Venice. Canonici collection passed to Giovanni Perissinotti in 1807; sold to Bodleian Library in 1817.

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Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. Trecento fragments and Polyphony beyond the codex. Harvard University, Ph.D.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Hagopian, Viola L. 1973. Italian Ars Nova Musik: A Bibliographic Guide to Modem Editions and Related Literature. 2nd ed.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London. Pages: 63-4. Notes: additional bibliography.

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1960. Johannes Ciconia, un musicien liégois et son temps. Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts: Mémoires: Collection in-4, II série, vol. X, fasc. 1a/1b. 2 vols. Brussels: Palais des Académies. Pages: I,74-8. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Layton, Billy Jim. 1960. Italian Music for the Ordinary of the Mass 1300-1450. Harvard University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 116-60,199ff,358-62. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1956-. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 24 vols. Monaco. Pages: Commentary to Vols. II-III, 48-9, passim; Commentary to Vol. IV, 33ff, passim; X,134,151ff; XII.83-91,102-3,197ff. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Fischer, Kurt von. 1956. Studien zur italienischen Musik des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, vol. Serie II, Vol. 5.  Bern: Paul Haupt. Pages: 26-7,50-l. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: Commentary Notes, 49. -vergleiche ferner die Literatur zu den übrigen Paduaner Fragmenten (I-Pu).

Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 25-6. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Apel, Willi (editor). 1950. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America. Pages: Nr. 66 (Übertragung von Nr. 11 nach I-MOe5.24).

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: X.514. Notes: physical description (partial).

Ellinwood, Leonard. 1941. The Conductus. Musical Quarterly, 27: 165ff.

Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3.  Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: I, 63-4, II,24-7*, passim; IV,20.

Besseler, Heinrich. 1926. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philipp van Vitry. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 8: 137-258. Pages: 233-5. Notes: physical description; contents list.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1925. Die mehrstimmige Messe des 14. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 7: 417ff. Pages: II, 25ff, 421.

Frere, Walter Howard. 1894-1932, repr. Hildesheim, 1967. Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica: A Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 vols. London: The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society. Pages: I, 138.

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