Copied by four principal scribes, all of whom were probably northerners working in Italy (HanenE). Significant repertorial connections with MonteA 871. Probably copied in Naples (HanenE, AtlMA), but see PirrAT and SlavinC for discussion of possible north Italian provenance. Once part of the library of the Spanish diplomat, soldier, historian, and poet Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-75). The Mendoza collection was willed to Philip II upon Mendoza's death in 1575, and transferred to the newly completed Escorial the following year. It is not known how the manuscript originally came into Mendoza's possession; see HanenE for a discussion of possibilities.
E-E MS IV.a.24
Palacio Real, Monasterio de S Lorenzo, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
manuscript of polyphony: 1460-74
| Archive | Palacio Real, Monasterio de S Lorenzo, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain (E-E) |
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| Shelfmark | MS IV.a.24 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 211 x 142 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 120 compositions, 45 from 16 composers, 75 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Several folios are now missing, making 11 pieces incomplete (with a verso of one song facing the recto of another).
Binding
covers of brown leather, tooled with the emblem of the monastery library; late 16th or early 17th-century (though Southern says "obviously of fairly recent origin")
Watermark
(1) generally resembles Briquet #6274; (2) resembles Briquet #3984; (3) generally resembles Briquet #3756; (4) resembles Briquet #9964; (5) resembles Briquet #6303; (6) generally resembles Briquet #5955 (HanenC).
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Two systems of original foliation, in Roman and Arabic numerals. 19th-century foliation, 1-137, by the Escorial librarian R. P. Rosansky.
Foliation
Other numberings: original numbering of 36 pieces
Decoration
No illuminations, although space was left for decorative initials.
Index
Original index on ff. 1'-3, listing 101 pieces
Surface
paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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89 French secular pieces, 1 French/Italian secular piece, 1 French/Latin secular piece, 24 Italian secular pieces, 2 Flemish secular pieces, 1 English secular piece, 1 Spanish secular piece, 3 textless pieces = 122 + 2 Italian secular pieces listed in the index but now missing from the manuscript = 124
(Basin)-1, (Bedingham)-1, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Bedingham/ Dunstable)-1, (Bedingham/Frye)-2, (Binchois)-7 + 1?, Braxatoris/(Pullois)-1, (Cornago)-2, Domarto-1, (Dufay)-6, Dunstable/ (Bedingham)-1, Horlay-4, (J. Legrant)-1, Morton-2, (Ockeghem) -1, Ockeghem/(Busnois)-1, Pullois-6 + 1?, anon-83
iii + 137 + iii paper folios, 211 x 142. Several folios are now missing, making 11 pieces incomplete. Two systems of original foliation, in Roman and Arabic numerals; original numbering of 36 pieces; 19th-century foliation, 1-137, by the Escorial librarian R. P. Rosansky. Late 16th or early 17th-century covers of brown leather, tooled with the emblem of the monastery library. Original index on ff. 1'-3, listing 101 pieces. Copied by four principal scribes, all of whom were probably northerners working in Italy (HanenE). No illuminations, although space was left for decorative initials. Watermarks resemble Briquet #6303, 6304, and 3746 (HanenE). Old call number "IV.0.5" found at the beginning. Significant repertorial connections with MonteA 871.
Ca. 1460-74 (HanenE). Probably copied in Naples (HanenE, AtlCM). Once part of the library of the Spanish diplomat, soldier, historian, and poet Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-75). The Mendoza collection was willed to Philip II upon Mendoza's death in 1575, and transferred to the newly completed Escorial the following year. It is not known how the manuscript originally came into Mendoza's possession; see HanenE for a discussion of possibilities.
Vol 4
Contents: 91 French secular pieces (9 incomplete; 2 without text), 1 French/Latin secular piece, 1 French/Italian secular piece, 23 Italian secular pieces (1 in-complete), 2 Dutch secular pieces, 1 English secular piece, 1 Spanish secular piece, 2 textless pieces (1 incomplete) = 122*
'Total excludes one Italian secular piece and one French(?) secular piece listed in index, but now missing due to lost folios.
Composers: Change "(Bedingham)-1" to "(Bedingham)-21"; change "(Beding-ham/Frye)-2" to "(Bedingham/Frye)-1"; change "Pullois-6 + 1?" to "Pullois -5 + 2?"; change "anon-83" to "anon-81."
Physical: Revised watermark information: (1) generally resembles Briquet #6274; (2) resembles Briquet #3984; (3) generally resembles Briquet #3756; (4) resembles Briquet #9964; (5) resembles Briquet #6303; (6) generally resembles Briquet #5955 (HanenC).
Provenance: Probably copied in Naples (HanenE, AtlMA), but see PirrAT and SlavinC for discussion of possible north Italian provenance.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Slavin, Dennis. 1986. Communication. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 39: 217-22. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1985. Music at the Aragonese Court of Naples. Cambridge. Pages: I 18-9,144-6,220-1,235-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gutiérrez-Denhoff, Martella. 1985. Der Wolfenbütteler Chansonnier Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Codex Guelf. 287 Extrav.: Untersuchungen zu Repertoire und Überlieferung einer Musikhandschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts und ihres Umkreises. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 29. Wiesbaden. Pages: 56-8, 303, 307-11, 313. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
‡ Hanen, Martha Knight. 1983. The Chansonnier El Escorial IV.a.24: Commentary and Edition. Musicological Studies, vol. XXXVI/1-3. 3 vols. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen. Pages: I-III. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; transcription; efacsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii,xxvi-xxvii,xxxii, xxxv, 35-6,77-85,88-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Southern, Eileen (editor). 1981. Anonymous Pieces in the MS El Escorial IV.a. 24. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 88. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: I; II, 157-8,248ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pope, Isabel, and Masakata Kanazawa (editors). 1978. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Musk of the Late Fifteenth Century. Oxford. Pages: 159-62, 185-7,314-6,336-8,434-7,474-6,543,557ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schavran, Henrietta. 1978. The Manuscript Pavia, Biblioteca Universitaria, Codice Aldini 362: A Study of Song Tradition in Italy Circa 1440-1480. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,49-57,94ff,332-4. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fallows, David. 1977. Words and Music in two English Songs of the mid-15th Century: Charles d'Orléans and John Lydgate. Early Music, 5: 38-43. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Kemp, Walter H. 1976. The Manuscript Escorial V.III.24. Musica Disciplina, 30: 97-129. Pages: 102-4,114-20. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Maniates, Maria Rika. 1975. Combinative Chansons in the Escorial Chansonnier. Musica Disciplina, 29: 61-125. Notes: contents list; concordances (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
‡ Hanen, Martha Knight. 1973. The Chansonnier El Escorial, Ms. IV.a.24. University of Chicago, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription; texts; additional bibliography.
Pirrotta, Nino. 1973. Su Alcuni Testi Italiani di Composizioni Polifoniche Quattrocentesche. Quadrivium, 14: 133-57. Notes: transcription (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1971. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Giulia XIII. 27, and the Dissemination of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson in Italy, c. 1460-c. 1530. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; concordances (partial).
Cattin, Giulio. 1971. Le Poesie del Savonarola nelle Fonti Musicali. Quadrivium, 12: 259-81. Pages: 273-80. Notes: transcription (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
‡ Southern, Eileen. 1969. El Escorial, Monastery Library, Ms. IV. a. 24. Musica Disciplina, 23: 41-79. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; mention of MS; discussion.
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 18-23,112-3. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Southern, Eileen. 1968. Foreign Music in German Manuscripts of the 15th Century. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 21: 258-85. Pages: 274-85. Notes: concordances (partial); mention of MS.
Gülke, Peter (editor). 1967. Johannis Pullois: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 41. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xii, passim. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion; transcription (partial).
Thomson, James. 1964. An Introduction to Philippe(?) Caron. Musicological Studies, vol. 9. Brooklyn. Pages: 44. Notes: concordances (partial).
Gülke, Peter. 1961. Das Volkslied in der burgundischen Polyphonie des 15. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift Heinrich Besseler zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, Leipzig. Pages: 192; 196-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Fischer, Kurt von. 1956. Studien zur italienischen Musik des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, vol. Serie II, Vol. 5. Bern: Paul Haupt. Pages: 58-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: III, 1522-3. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 106-7. Notes: concordances (partial); mention of MS.
Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 453. Notes: mention of MS.
Aubry, Pierre. 1906-7. Iter Hispanicum. Paris. Pages: 30-6. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
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