PL-WRu Ak 1955/KN 195

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland

fragments: 14th century

Archive	Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Wrocław, Poland (PL-WRu)
Shelfmark	Ak 1955/KN 195
Image Availability	The images on this record are linked using IIIF.
Surface	Parchment
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	images IIIF Manifest
Provenance	France
Contents	Contains 8 compositions, 2 from 2 composers, 6 are anonymous.

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. Traces of offset from the decorated initials still present on the first and last flyleaves of the host volume (I.Q.411) indicate the larger fragment was formerly located at the front of the volume, and the smaller fragment at the back.

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

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Decoration

red and blue initials

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Number of voices	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
1	… m'espreve de loial amour (frag.)	3	-	Anonymous
… m'espreve de loial amour Anonymous Appears on: 1 Genres: Chanson Number of voices: 3 Voice: Cantus Languages: French Clef: c3 Voice Text: […]se en ioiuece[?] sans fouloir \| M'espreve de loial amour. Voice: Triplum Languages: none Clef: c3 Voice: Tenor Languages: none Clef: f3 Voice Text: Tenor General Note complete tenor; only the ending of the upper voice parts
1	Amis loyal vous ai trouvé	3	-	Anonymous
Amis loyal vous ai trouvé Anonymous Appears on: 1 Genres: Chanson Number of voices: 3 Voice: Cantus Languages: French Clef: c3 Voice Text: Amis loial vous ay trouvé \| C'est drois qu'a vous me rende prise. Voice: Triplum Languages: none Clef: c3 Voice Text: Triplum Voice: Tenor Languages: none Clef: f3 Voice Text: Tenor
1, 2	Souveraine de bonté (frag.)	3	-	Anonymous
Souveraine de bonté Anonymous Appears on: 1, 2 Genres: Chanson Number of voices: 3 Voice: Cantus Languages: French Clef: c3 Voice Text: Souveraine de bonté et de loiauté parée \| Veni[…] Voice: Triplum Languages: none Clef: c3 Voice Text: Triplum Voice: Tenor Languages: none Clef: f3 Voice Text: Tenor General Note only the beginning of each voice part
2	Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] (frag.)	-	-	Anonymous
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] Anonymous Appears on: 2 Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary Voice: [no designation] Languages: Latin Clef: c2 Voice Text: [P]atrem o[mnipotentem fac]torem celi et terre visibilium o[mnium et invisibilium.] Et in unum dominium Ihm Xpm [filium Dei uni]genitum. Et ex patre natum a[nte omnia se]cula. Deum de deo lumen de l[…] General Note An isolated Credo voice or monophonic Credo fragment. It could not have been a complete setting, as there would not be enough room to accommodate the rest of the Credo in the missing right-hand column.
2	Sans merci (frag.)	-	-	Anonymous
Sans merci Anonymous Appears on: 2 Genres: Motet Voice: Triplum Languages: French Clef: c2 Voice Text: Sans merchi en […]rance \| I[…] pour foul[…] General Note start of triplum only
1v	Virga aaron (frag.)	-	-	Anonymous
Virga aaron Anonymous Appears on: 1v Genres: Motet Voice: Tenor Languages: Latin Clef: f3 Voice Text: Virga aaron Tenor
1v, 2v	Colla iugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus (frag.)	3	-	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 Number of voices: 3 Voice: Triplum Languages: Latin Clef: c2 Voice Text: Colla jugo subdere [&c.] Voice: Motetus Languages: Latin Clef: c3 Voice Text: Bona condit [&c.] Voice: Tenor Languages: none Clef: [c4] General Note first half of upper voice parts and a few fragments from their second half; only fragments of the tenor
2v	[Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est (frag.)	-	-	[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: Motetus Languages: Latin Clef: c4 Voice Text: Cum venerint miseri degen[…] General Note incomplete, only one line of the duplum remains

Composer	Compositions
Anonymous	Amis loyal vous ai trouvé – 1 … m'espreve de loial amour (frag.) – 1 Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] (frag.) – 2 Sans merci (frag.) – 2 Souveraine de bonté (frag.) – 1, 2 Virga aaron (frag.) – 1v
Vitry, Philippe de (1291-1361)	(?) Colla iugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus (frag.) – 1v, 2v
[Master of the Royal Motets]	(?) [Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est (frag.) – 2v

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
[Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est (frag.)	[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 (frag.)	Vitry, Philippe de (1291–1361) (?)	1v, 2v
Patrem omnipotentem [Credo] (frag.)	Anonymous	2
Sans merci (frag.)	Anonymous	2
Souveraine de bonté (frag.)	Anonymous	1, 2
Virga aaron (frag.)	Anonymous	1v
… m'espreve de loial amour (frag.)	Anonymous	1

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‡ denotes primary source study

Lefferts, Peter M. 1986. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century. UMI studies in Musicology, vol. 94. 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, vol. 10. 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, 24/1-2: 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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