I-Fn MS II.I.212

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: 14th century

Archive Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy (I-Fn)
Shelfmark MS II.I.212
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Surface Other
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 297 x 272 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: F 19
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Banco Rari 19
Notations
  • mensural
  • square
Inventory This MS has not yet been inventoried by DIAMM. If you would like to submit an inventory, please send it to diamm@music.ox.ac.uk
Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 10 compositions, 10 are anonymous.
General Description

8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front, followed at f. 10 by a corpus of laude (without music); music starts at f. 71. From f. I-LXX there are sequences, together with a few motets based on sequence texts; this section may have belonged to a different manuscript.

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Binding

Modern binding of wooden boards covered in half-leather (the 2 unnumbered paper flyleaves both at front and back belong with the modern binding)

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Notation

large black square notes; motets in mensural notation ( employs semibreves, minims and major semibreves (i.e. with a descending tail) as well as longs, breves and c.o.p. ligatures)

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Ruling

6 red four-line staves per page

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Foliation

Red folioation begins at real f. 10 (8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front are not numbered): extends from I-LXX, but apparently f. 2-5, 20, 22, 23, 27 and one or two pages at the end of the section are missing from this total. From f. 71 onwards a modern ink foliation appears at t.r.r.

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Foliation

72v-85

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Surface

parchment interleaved with tissue

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: A 14th century parchment manuscript, interleaved with tissue, whose 98 folios meas. 297 x 272 mm. There are 2 unnumbered paper flyleaves both at front and back which go with the modern binding of wooden boards covered in half-leather. 8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front are not numbered. The corpus of laude, for which no music is provided, begins on the real f. 10, which is numbered I in red at t.m.r. This red foliation goes from I-LXX, but apparently f. 2-5, 20, 22, 23, 27 and one or two pages at the end of the section are missing from this total. The musical part of the ms starts at f. 71, and, from here on, a modern ink foliation appears at t.r.r. This may have been a different manuscript from f. I-LXX originally, since it is made up of sequences, together with a few motets based on sequence texts. The notation consists of large black square notes on 6 red four-line staves per page. The motets are in mensural notation, which employs semibreves, minims and major semibreves (i.e. with a descending tail) as well as longs, breves and c.o.p. ligatures.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
71 ... e ergo mater ferens - - Anonymous

... e ergo mater ferens

Anonymous
Appears on: 71
Genres: Marian antiphon
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ... e ergo mater ferens
72v–73 Verbum partis hodie processit 2 - Anonymous

Verbum partis hodie processit

Anonymous
Appears on: 72v–73
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Verbum partis hodie processit
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: f2
Layout

parts
73–74 Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum 3 - Anonymous

Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: 73–74
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Verbum caro factum est
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Salve, virgo nobilis Maria
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [Verbum]
Layout

parts
79–80 Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus 2 - Anonymous

Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus

Anonymous
Appears on: 79–80
Genres: Motet, Veni sancte spiritus
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: [Veni, pater divine spiritus]
General Note

T om.

Layout

parts
84–85 Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie 2 - Anonymous

Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie

Anonymous
Appears on: 84–85
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f4
Voice Text: Ave, Ihesu Christe, verbum patris
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Layout

parts
[-] Benedicamus verbum - - Anonymous

Benedicamus verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Benedicamus verbum

Item Bibliography

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: [facs.] plate LXXVII.

[-] Verbum patris hodie processit - - Anonymous

Verbum patris hodie processit

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Verbum patris hodie processit

Item Bibliography

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: [facs.] plates LXXVII.

[-] Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum - - Anonymous

Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - [Verbum]

Item Bibliography

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: [facs.] plates LXXVII-LXXVIII.

[-] Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie - - Anonymous

Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie

Item Bibliography

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: [facs.] plates LXXXI-LXXXII.

[-] Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus - - Anonymous

Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet, Veni sancte spiritus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus

Item Bibliography

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: (52/53/I), [facs.] no. 59.

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: [facs.] plates LXXIX-LXXX.

Arlt, Wulf, and Mathias Stauffacher (editors). 1986. Engelberg Stiftsbibliothek Codex 314, edited in facsimile with commentary. Schweizerische Musikdenkmäler, vol. II.  Winterthur/Switzerland: Amadeus Verlag. Pages: [facs.] 140-141.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
... e ergo mater ferens Anonymous 71
Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie Anonymous [-]
Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie Anonymous 84–85
Benedicamus verbum Anonymous [-]
Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum Anonymous 73–74
Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus Anonymous [-]
Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus Anonymous 79–80
Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum Anonymous [-]
Verbum partis hodie processit Anonymous 72v–73
Verbum patris hodie processit Anonymous [-]

‡ denotes primary source study

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1966. Répertoire international des sources musicales. Series B IV, vol. 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century.  Munich-Duisburg: G. Henle Verlag. Pages: 790-791.

Rokseth, Y. 1935+1939. Les Polyphonies du XIVe siecle. 4 vols. Pages: I and III, no. 284 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Mo); IV, 80, 293.

Wolf, Johannes. 1931); American reprint: 'Music of earlier times. Vocal and instrumental examples; 13th century to Bach'. (New York, 1946. Sing-und Spielmusik aus älterer Zeit.  Leipzig. Pages: no. 4 (transcription of no. 1).

Anglès, Higinio. 1931. El Còdex musical de las Huelgas. 3 vols. Pages: II—III, no. 120 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Hú); I, 279.

Handschin, Jacques. 1928. Angelomontana Polyphonica. Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 3: 64ff. Pages: 68, 83.

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: II, 178.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 209, 300 f, 304, 307.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation.  Halle: Niemayer. Pages: 226, 445.

Aubry, Pierre. 1908. Cent Motets du XIIIe siècle. 3 vols. Pages: I—II, no. 98 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Ba); III, 108.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1908. Die mehrstimmigen Werke der Handschrift Engelberg 314. Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 21: 48ff. Pages: 55.

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Michael Cuthbert

Monday, 23 March, 2026

Note that Blake Wilson and Nello Barbieri's edition of the Florence Laudario calls the Banco Rari 19 shelfmark the current mark and II.I.212 the old one (same for BR 18 w.r.t. II.I.122)

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