A-M MS 749

Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts, Melk, Austria

theory treatise: 15th century

Archive Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts, Melk, Austria (A-M)
Shelfmark MS 749
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 230 x 160, flyleaves 225 x 150, 215 x c. 110 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: MelkS 749
  • olim (Former shelfmark): 542 (K 12)
Notations
  • black full mensural
Relationships
Provenance
Contents 1 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Main body of manuscript contains two treatises by Jacobi de Fladnitz: 'Expositio Hymnorum' (ff. 1-107) and 'Expositio Psalmorum' (ff. 110-376); only parchment flyleaves contain polyphony. These flyleaves - top & bottom of two contiguous sheets - are the remnants from larger musical manuscript; other fragments from same manuscript - or the same workshop (CuthbertNMfrags) - are now NurS 9 and NurS 9a (StroMB). See also the reconstruction of the fragments. This original manuscript was probably copied at the Benedictine monastery at Melk, and used as flyleaves in binding of Fladnitz treatises c. 1466. Alternatively (StroMB), perhaps copied in Vienna; used at Church of St. Stephen.

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Binding

Original covers of red tooled leather over wooden boards, with clasps, date from ca. 1466.

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Notation

black mensural

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Foliation

Original? foliation

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Foliation

front and rear flyleaves, recto and verso and boards. Recto of the front flyleaf is the top of the verso of the current rear flyleaf, and vice-versa.

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Surface

i parchment + 376 paper + i parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Treatises by Jacobi de Fladnitz, with polyphony: 1 Gloria (fragmentary)

(Zachara da Teramo)

i parchment + 376 paper + i parchment folios, 230 x 160. (Parchment flyleaves measure 225 x 150 and 215 x ca. 110). Original? foliation. Original covers of red tooled leather over wooden boards, with clasps, date from ca. 1466. Only parchment flyleaves contain polyphony, copied in black mensural notation; main body of manuscript contains two treatises by Jacobi de Fladnitz: "Expositio Hymnorum" (ff. 1-107) and "Expositio Psalmorum" (ff. 110-376). Parchment flyleaves are remnants from larger musical manuscript; other fragments from same manuscript now NurS 9 and NurS 9a (StroMB).

Early 15th century. Flyleaves with music probably copied at the Benedictine monastery at Melk; originally part of a larger musical manuscript. Used as flyleaves in binding of Fladnitz treatises ca. 1466. Probably copied in Vienna; used at Church of St. Stephen (StroMB).

Addendum: Discovered in 1972 in an early 15thC music treatise ms. They contain one musical composition: Zachara's `Gloria, Ad ogne vento', all 4 voices incomplete. It has strong similarities to PL-Wnl 8054 (=Krasincki 52)

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

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
[-] Et in terra pax [Gloria] 'Ad ogni vento' -
Zacara da Teramo, Antonio (ca. 1350–ca. 1413)

Et in terra pax [Gloria] 'Ad ogni vento'

Zacara da Teramo, Antonio (ca. 1350–ca. 1413)
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Gloria (et in terra pax), Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Gloria
Composer Compositions
Zacara da Teramo, Antonio (ca. 1350–ca. 1413)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Et in terra pax [Gloria] 'Ad ogni vento'
Zacara da Teramo, Antonio (ca. 1350–ca. 1413)
[-]

Set: Nuremberg-Melk fragments

Type: Fragments of a whole

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A-M MS 749

D-Nst Fragm. lat. 9

D-Nst Fragm. lat. 9a

Set: copied by same scribe

Type: Copyist or Scribal Concordance

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D-Nst Fragm. lat. 9

D-Nst Fragm. lat. 9a

‡ denotes primary source study

‡ Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2010. The Nuremberg and Melk fragments and the international "Ars Nova" . Studi musicali , 7-51. Pages: 10-15; 27-28 (inventory); 40-45 (reconstruction), 49-51 (facsimile). Notes: Contents; description; discussion; layout; concordances.

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

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: II, 437.

Staehelin, Martin. 1974. Beschreibungen und Beispiele musikalischer Formen in einem unbeachteten Traktat des frühen 15. Jahrhunderts. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 237-42. Pages: 238 ff.

Angerer, Joachim. 1973. Die Begriffe 'Discantus, Organa' und 'Scolares' in Reformgeschichtlichen Urkunden des 15. Jahrhunderts. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Musikforschung, . Pages: 169-70, Abb. 1-4;.

Angerer, Joachim. 1972. Die Begriffe "Discantus", "Organa" und "Scolares" in reformgeschichtlichen Urkunden des 15. Jahrhunderts. Anzeiger der philosophischen-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 146-171. Pages: 146-171.

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1955-83. Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae.  Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI, xli.

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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