Treatises on music, by Franchino Gafori, Jean de Muris, and Alexander Assolari, with polyphony on ff. 93'-95 and ff. 100'-102. Copied by Alexander Assolari, a Carmelite friar (inscription on f. 100). Copied at Carmelite convent in Bologna (inscription on f. 100).
| Archive | Civica Biblioteca 'Angelo Mai', Bergamo, Italy (I-BGc) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Σ IV 37 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 214 x 153 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 2 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Modern covers of leather over cardboard.
Notation
mixed black mensural and square chant notation
Date
1487 (date on f. 100).
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-102 (one folio between ff. 6/7 not numbered).
Decoration
Light brown inked Gothic initials.
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM 5
XVe. s. 102 ff. Papier, 215 x 155 mm. Foliotation moderne. Le f. 1 mq. Notation mesurée noire. 6 portées par p.
Ms. de provenance inconnue. Copie, la plus ancienne, semble-t-il, de la Practica musicae de Franchino Gaffurio avec ex. musicaux à partir du f. 88 et 2 pièces polyphoniques seul'.
Au f. 100: «Hoc opusculum scriptum et notatum fuit per fratrem Alexandrum de Assolarijs de Albino ordinis carmelitarum observancie in conventu nostro Bergomi … sub anno incarnationis m.cccc.lxxx.vij die prima mensis decem-bris.» Seul le motet n° 2 aurait donc été copié postérieurement à 1487.
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Treatises on music, by Franchino Gafori, Jean de Muris, and Alexander Assolari, with polyphony:
2 motets
Anonymous
103 paper folios, 214 x 153. New pencil foliation, 1-102 (one folio between ff. 6/7 not numbered). Modern covers of leather over cardboard. Copied by Alexander Assolari, a Carmelite friar (inscription on f. 100). Polyphony on ff. 93'-95 and ff. 100'-102, in mixed black mensural and square chant notation. Light brown inked Gothic initials.
1487 (date on f. 100). Copied at Carmelite convent in Bologna (inscription on f. 100).
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Fischer, Kurt von, and Franco Alberto Gallo (editors). 1985. Italian Sacred and Ceremonical Music (II). Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 13. Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre.
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.
Cattin, Giulio. 1978. Virgo Mater Ecclesiae: Un Tropo alla Salve Regina nelle Fonti Monodiche e Polifoniche dei Sec. XIV-XV. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento IV, Pages: 156-7, 175-6.
Miller, Clement A. 1970. Early Gaffuriana: New Answers to Old Questions. The Musical Quarterly, 56: 367-88. Pages: 367,384,386.
Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1. Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: ix, Tav. XII-XV.
Miller, Clement A. 1968. Gaffurius's Practica Musicae: Origin and Contents. Musica Disciplina, 22: 105-28. Pages: 105-7.
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Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
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