PL-WRu Ak 1955/KN 195

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland

fragments: 14th century

Archive Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland (PL-WRu)
Shelfmark Ak 1955/KN 195
Image Availability The images on this record are linked using IIIF.
Surface Parchment
Numbering System None
Measurements 220 x 180 mm, 220 x 70 mm
Other Identifiers
  • olim (Former shelfmark): MS fragment 82 from I.Q.411
Notations
  • Ars Nova
External Links
Provenance
  • France
Contents 8 pieces from 3 composers
General Description

Two binding fragments from a late fifteenth-century manuscript, Ms.I.Qu.411 in Breslau University, representing the easternmost source of this repertoire. The larger fragment was labelled f.1 by Feldmann, the smaller f.2; though in fact they are both from the same rotulus (Brewer), measuring at least 650 x 180 mm (cf. Brussels 19606 and Paris Pic 67). Therefore pieces continue 'down' the two rectos, and then the two versos.

Eight fragmentary works of the French Ars nova survive, among them the Ite missa est from the Mass of Tournai, and Philippe de Vitry's motet `Colla jugo subdere'. Some texts show traces of Picardy dialect, and the rotulus probably originated in France, perhaps in that part (Brewer).

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Notation

Ars nova

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Ruling

red five-line staves

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Decoration

red and blue initials

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1 ......... preve de loial amour - Anonymous

......... preve de loial amour

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Chanson
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: ......... preve de loial amour
1 Amis loyal vous ai trouvé - Anonymous

Amis loyal vous ai trouvé

Anonymous
Appears on: 1
Genres: Chanson
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Amis loial vous ay trouvé
1, 2 Souveraine de bonté - Anonymous

Souveraine de bonté

Anonymous
Appears on: 1, 2
Genres: Chanson
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Souveraine de bonté
2 Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] - Anonymous

Patrem omnipotentem [Credo]

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Credo
2 Sans merci - Anonymous

Sans merci

Anonymous
Appears on: 2
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Voice Text: Sans merchi
1v Virga aaron - Anonymous

Virga aaron

Anonymous
Appears on: 1v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Virga aaron
1v, 2v Colla iugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus -
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)

Colla iugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus

Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
Appears on: 1v, 2v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ?Colla jugo subdere/Bona condit/Libera me
2v [Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est -
[Master of the Royal Motets] (?)

[Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est

[Master of the Royal Motets] (?)
Appears on: 2v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin, French
Voice Text: Ite misse est: Se grace - Cum venerint - Ite misse (Mass of Tournai)
General Note

incomplete, only one line of the duplum remains
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361)
[Master of the Royal Motets]
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
......... preve de loial amour Anonymous 1
[Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est
[Master of the Royal Motets] (?)
2v
Amis loyal vous ai trouvé Anonymous 1
Colla iugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus
Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)
1v, 2v
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous 2
Sans merci Anonymous 2
Souveraine de bonté Anonymous 1, 2
Virga aaron Anonymous 1v
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‡ denotes primary source study

Lefferts, Peter M. 1986. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century. UMI studies in Musicology.  Ann Arbor. Pages: 85.

Brewer, Charles Everett. 1984. The Introduction of the Ars Nova into East Central Europe: A Study of Late Medieval Polish Sources. City University of New York, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.

Perz, Miroslaw. 1984. Zur Textunterlegungspraxis in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts und über einige in Polen Neu-und Wiedergefundene Quellen dieser Zeit. Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts: Vorträge des Gastsymposiums in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 8. bis 12. September 1980, Göttinger Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten. edited by Miroslaw Perz, 327-49. Kassel: Bärenreiter. Pages: 327-350 (p. 340).

Brewer, Charles Everett. 1982. A fourteenth-century polyphonic manuscript rediscovered. Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 5-19. Notes: description of MS; discussion; facsimiles; transcriptions (partial); contents.

Feldmann, Fritz. 1938, 1973. Musik und Musikpflege im mittelalterlichen Schlesien.  Breslau: (1938) Hildesheim and New York: (1973 reprint). Pages: 126-127.

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