PL-Wn MS lat.F.I.378

Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland

manuscript of polyphony: 15th century

Archive Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Poland (PL-Wn)
Shelfmark MS lat.F.I.378
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 290 x 215 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: WarN 378
  • olim (Former shelfmark): photographic copy only Preserved in Poznan, Biblioteka Universytecka MS 695
Notations
  • black full mensural
  • coloration in black full
  • coloration in black void
  • coloration in red full
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
Relationships
Provenance
  • Poland
Contents Contains 13 compositions, 12 from 3 composers, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

Copied by one main scribe, who includes performance-related remarks; last two pieces (new ff. 27'-29') copied by a different hand. Copied in Krakow (BrewerAN).

Taken from Warsaw to St. Petersburg in late 18th or early 19th century; placed in imperial library under call number 'Lat. F.1.378.' Returned to Poland c. 1923-8; first placed in Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Warsaw, then transferred to Biblioteka Narodowa c. 1930-6. Lost or destroyed c. 1944, but contents known from inventory by Maria Szczepanska (1927) and an incomplete set of photographs. Gondko2026a reports that a photograph of fol. 2r appeared in Thibaut1912; and one of f. 4v among the papers of Friedrich Ludwig (Göttingen, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Nachlass Ludwig XXX, 7).

DIAMM, 2026
Binding

Rebound in modern covers.

DIAMM, 2017
Watermark

(1) resembles Briquet #14790; (2) resembles Briquet #14516 (AMP).

DIAMM, 2017
Notation

black mensural notation with red black full and black void coloration

DIAMM, 2017
Date

Ca. 1425-34 (BrewerAN)

DIAMM, 2017
Foliation

Modern foliation on upper right rectos, 1-29, excludes last five folios; earlier (but still modern) foliation, 54-86, on upper center rectos (some errors and inconsistencies)

DIAMM, 2017
Decoration

Small inked initials

DIAMM, 2017
Surface

paper

DIAMM, 2017
Census Catalogue of Music Description

This information is reproduced here by kind permission of the publishers. It is COPYRIGHT and copying/reproduction of this content without permission may result in legal action.

(lost during World War II, but photographs of most folios now preserved in Poznan, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka im. Adama Michiewicza, MS 695)

11 Glorias, 5 Credos, 2 motets = 18

(Ciconia)-4, Nicholas of Radom-3, Zachara da Teramo or Zacharia? [Szacharie mneysche]-5, anon-6

34 paper folios of an original 86 or more, 290 x 215. Modern foliation on upper right rectos, 1-29, excludes last five folios; earlier (but still modern) foliation, 54-86, on upper center rectos (some errors and inconsistencies). Blank folios: 11'-12, 22, 24', 30-34'. Rebound in modern covers. No index. Black mensural notation, with red full and black void coloration. Copied by one main scribe; last two pieces (new ff. 27'-29') copied by a different hand. Small inked initials. Watermarks: (1) resembles Briquet #14790; (2) resembles Briquet #14516 (AMP).

Ca. 1425-34 (BrewerAN). Copied in Krakow (BrewerAN). Taken from Warsaw to St. Petersburg in late 18th or early 19th century; placed in imperial library under call number "Lat. F.1.378." Returned to Poland ca. 1923-8; first placed in Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Warsaw, then transferred to Biblioteka Narodowa ca. 1930-6. Lost or destroyed ca. 1944, but contents known from inventory by Maria Szczepanska and incomplete set of photographs (see above).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Loading inventory…

The inventory could not be loaded.

‡ denotes primary source study

Perz, Miroslaw. 2009. Wokół Mikołaja Radomskiego z figlami błazna Bobika [Concerning Mikołaj Radomski and the pranks of Bobik the Jester]. Muzykolog wobec świadectw źródłowych i dokumentów. Księga pamiątkowa dedykowana Profesorowi Piotrowi Poźniakowi w 70. rocznicę urodzin [The Musicologist and Source Documentary Evidence: A Book of Essays in Honour of Professor Piotr Poźniak on his 70th Birthday], Musica Iagellonica.  Krakow. Notes: scribal notes relating to performance.

Di Bacco, Giuliano, and John Nadas. 1998. The Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony during the Great Schism. Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome, edited by Giuliano Di Bacco and John Nadas, 44-92. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

‡ Perz, Miroslaw. 1995. The Structure of the Lost Manuscript From the National Library in Warsaw, No. 378 (WarN 378). From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum Natalicium Willem Elders, Chloe: Beihefte zum Daphnis, vol. 21. edited by Miroslaw Perz,  Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B.V.

Fischer, Kurt von. 1987. Bemerkungen zur Überlieferung und zum Stil der geistlichen Werke des Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo. Musica Disciplina, XLI: 161-182.

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, 18-24,36-43,199-201,203.

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. Pages: 257-309,580.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.

Perz, Miroslaw (editor). 1976. Sources of polyphony up to c. 1500. Transcriptions.  Graz/Warszawa. Pages: 13, XXVI.

Günther, Ursula. 1970. Quelques remarques sur des feuillets récemment découverts à Grottaferrata. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento III, 315-97. Pages: 318-9,338ff.

Perz, Miroslaw. 1970. Die Einflüsse der Ausgehenden Italienischen Ars Nova in Polen. L'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento, 465-83. Pages: 475ff.

Feicht, Hieronim. 1966. Quellen zur Mehrstimmigen Musik in Polen vom Späten Mittelalter bis 1600. Musica Antiqua: Acta Scientifica [Bydgoszcz, Poland], 1: 281-93. Pages: 282-3.

Szweykowski, Zygmunt M (editor). 1964. Muzyka w dawnym Krakowie (Music in Old Cracow).  Krakow. Pages: 17-22,299.

Perz, Miroslaw (editor). 1963-. Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia.  Warsaw and Graz. Pages: XIII,xxvi-xxix, 103-60; XIV, 100ff,380-459.

Clercx-Lejeune, Suzanne, and Suzanne Clercx. 1960. Johannes Ciconia, un musicien liégois et son temps. Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts: Mémoires: Collection in-4, II série, vol. X, fasc. 1a/1b. 2 vols. Brussels: Palais des Académies. Pages: I,58-61,78-80.

Layton, Billy Jim. 1960. Italian Music for the Ordinary of the Mass 1300-1450. Harvard University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 200, 225-31, 244ff, 285-9, 299, 389-94.

Reese, Gustave. 1959. Music in the Renaissance.  New York. Pages: 743-4.

Szweykowski, Zygmunt M. 1958. Z Dziejów Polskiej Kultury Muzycznej.  Krakow. Pages: I, 60-1.

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1955-83. Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 11, 1-6.  Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI,ix,xxii-xxix.

Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik.  Kassel. Pages: I,7O7; XVI, 1053-4.

‡ Szczepanska, Maria. 1927. Nowe źródło do historyi muzyki polskiej wielogłosowej w XV wieku [A new source for the history of Polish polyphonic music in the fifteenth century]. Sprawozdania Towarzystwa Naukowego we Lwowie, 7/3: 128-33.

Thibaut, Jean-Baptiste (editor). 1912. La notation musicale, son origine, son évolution: Conférence au Conservatoire impérial de Saint-Pétersbourg le 11/24 février 1912.  St Petersburg. Notes: photo of f. 2r.

This form is used to make comments on a source. If you wish to notify us of a correction to the record, you should use the "Contribute a change" form instead.

No comments have been made.

Contributions to this record are recorded here. If you wish to contribute information or a correction to this record, use the "Contribute a Change" link. This will then be reviewed by DIAMM staff and, if accepted, your contribution will be acknowledged here.

DIAMM, 2016

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Watermark Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note

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