I-Sc L.V.36

Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena, Italy

theory treatise: 15th century

Archive Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena, Italy (I-Sc)
Shelfmark L.V.36
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 278 x 212 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: I-Sc36
  • CCM: SienBC L.V.36
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in black void
Relationships
Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 4 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 3 are anonymous.
General Description

A collection of music treatises including Paolo and an abridged version of de Vitry's Ars Nova. The 3 unrelated music items on f.25v-27 include 2 French songs and a motet. Other textless fragments appear on f.16/16v. Copied by a single scribe. Copied in Italy; of monastic origin (RISM).

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Binding

Modern cardboard covers, with leather spine

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Notation

black mensural notation with black void coloration

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Foliation

27 ff

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Foliation

Modern ink foliation, 1-27.

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Decoration

No initials or decoration.

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Surface

paper

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RISM Description

Summary: A 15thC collection of music treatises including Paolo and an abridged version of de Vitry's Ars Nova. The 3 unrelated music items on f.25v-27 include 2 French songs and a motet. Other textless fragments appear on f.16/16v.

RISM B/IV 4: 15. Jh.; 27 Blätter Papier + je 1 Vorsatz- und Nachstoßblatt, 280 x 213 mm. Moderne Foliierung von f. 1-27. Jede Seite mit 50 Linien vorliniert. - Einband: Modernes Kartonband mit Lederrücken.

Diese aus einem italienischen Kloster stammende Handschrift des 15. Jh. enthält musiktheoretische Traktate. Ab f. 25v finden sich Motetten und weltliche französische Lieder (siehe Incipitverzeichnis), die mit den Traktaten in keinem Zusammenhang stehen. Diese sind auf den vorlinierten Seiten in schwarzer und schwarz-hohler Mensuralnotation eingetragen. Auf f. 16r/v stehen textlose Fragmente und Federproben in schwarzer Mensuralnotation (im Incipitverzeichnis nicht aufgeführt).

Inhalt: f. 1r von jüngerer Hand (16. Jh.?) ohne Beziehung zu den folgenden Traktaten: Pietro Aron, Institutione harmonica. Libro latinos f. 1v zwei Choraltraktate; f. 17 Gaudentbrevitate moderni; f. 22 Ars ad discantandum contrapunctum secundum Magistrum Paulum de Florentia; f. 23vb Kurzfassung von Vitrys Liber musicalium.

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Collection of treatises on music, by Pietro Aron and others, with polyphony: 1 motet, 3 French secular pieces * = 4

'Two pieces consist of only one voice in this source; these may be monophonic, or isolated voices of polyphonic settings.

(Ciconia)-1, anon-3v

i + 27 + i paper folios, 278 x 212. Modern ink foliation, 1-27. Modern cardboard covers, with leather spine. Polyphony on ff. 25'-27, copied by a single scribe in black mensural notation with black void coloration. No initials or decoration.

Early 15th century. Copied in Italy; of monastic origin (RISM).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
25v–26 O virum omnimoda veneratione / O lux et decus tranensium / O beate Nicolae supplicum vota suscipe 4 -
Ciconia, Johannes (ca. 1370–1412)

O virum omnimoda veneratione / O lux et decus tranensium / O beate Nicolae supplicum vota suscipe

Ciconia, Johannes (ca. 1370–1412)
Appears on: 25v–26
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 4
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: O virum onmimoda veneratione ...
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c1
Voice Text: O lux et decus tranensium ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: O beate Nicolae supplicum vota suscipe ...
Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Layout

parts
26v Puisqu'amours voelt que soie 1 - Anonymous

Puisqu'amours voelt que soie

Anonymous
Appears on: 26v
Genres: Chanson
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Puisqu'amours voelt que soie ...
Layout

parts
26v Mercie amours quand tu as le savoir 1 - Anonymous

Mercie amours quand tu as le savoir

Anonymous
Appears on: 26v
Genres: Chanson
Number of voices: 1
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Mercie amours quant tu as le savoir ...
27 Belle que rose vermeille 3 - Anonymous

Belle que rose vermeille

Anonymous
Appears on: 27
Genres: Chanson
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c1
Voice Text: Belle que rose vermeille ...
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c3
Layout

parts
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Ciconia, Johannes (ca. 1370-1412)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Belle que rose vermeille Anonymous 27
Mercie amours quand tu as le savoir Anonymous 26v
O virum omnimoda veneratione / O lux et decus tranensium / O beate Nicolae supplicum vota suscipe
Ciconia, Johannes (ca. 1370–1412)
25v–26
Puisqu'amours voelt que soie Anonymous 26v

‡ denotes primary source study

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

Memelsdorff, Pedro. 2004. Siena 36 revisitata: Paolo da Firenze, Johannes Ciconia, e l'interrelazione di polifonia e trattatistica in fonti del primo Quattrocento. Acta Musicologica, 76/2: 159–91. Notes: description; facsimile (partial); discussion.

Fallows, David. 1987. Two equal voices: a French song repertory with music for two more works of Oswald von Wolkenstein. Early Music History, 7: 227-241.

Bent, Margaret, and Anne Hallmark (editors). 1985. Complete Works of Johannes Ciconia. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 24.  Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. Pages: XXIV,206,222. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial).

Kreyszig, Walter Kurt. 1984. Anonymous Compositions from the Late-Fourteenth and Early-Fifteenth Centuries. Forschungen zur älteren Musikgeschichte, vol. 5.  Vienna: Braumüller. Pages: 35-6, 178ff,257,294-5. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Cox, Bobby Wayne. 1977. The Motets of MS Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Q 15. North Texas State University, Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 221-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcription; exts of pieces (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gallo, Franco Alberto. 1961-1968. Alcune Fonti poco Note di Musica Teorica e Pratica. L 'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento: Convegni di studio 1961-1967, 49-76. Certaldo. Pages: 73-6, Tav. IV. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; facsimile (partial).

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1960. Johannes Ciconia. Pages: II, 173ff. (Übertragung von Nr. 1 nach I-BclS und I-Bu2216).

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Michael Stone

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description

Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. RISM Description