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).
| Archive | Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena, Italy (I-Sc) |
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| Shelfmark | L.V.36 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 278 x 212 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 4 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 3 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Modern cardboard covers, with leather spine
Notation
black mensural notation with black void coloration
Foliation
27 ff
Foliation
Modern ink foliation, 1-27.
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Surface
paper
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).
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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. 1960. Johannes Ciconia. Pages: II, 173ff. (Übertragung von Nr. 1 nach I-BclS und I-Bu2216).
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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