Composite of several originally separate fascicles bound together in late 17th century. Only paper folios contain music; parchment folios contain miscellaneous religious writings (book of martyrs, rules for Benedictine Order, etc.) Main scribe probably a Benedictine monk at monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC) or monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP); textless fragments on pp. 323, 429, and 432 are later additions in a different hand. Section with music probably copied at Benedictine monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP), or Benedictine monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC). Owned by latter monastery in 16th century (inscription on p. 247: 'Est monasterij sancti angeli palantani de gaieta signatus lettera et numero'). Brought to central monastery of Benedictine Order at Monte Cassino at an unknown time, probably in 16th or 17th century.
| Archive | Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, Montecassino, Italy (I-MC) |
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| Shelfmark | 871 |
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| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Measurements | 276 x 206 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 166 compositions, 53 from 22 composers, 113 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Paper folios trimmed at time of binding, obliterating many attributions and some foliation. At least 70 folios lost; some folios now bound in incorrect order.
Binding
Rebound in modern covers of yellow leather over boards, with inscription 'N 871 / Martyrologium / Musica' on spine; leather spine of earlier (but not original) binding pasted inside present covers.
Watermark
resemble Briquet #462, #746, #2066 [= arms of Aragon], #3562-5(?), #3725, #7698, #11181, #12149.
Notation
black void mensural notation
Foliation
Modern pencil pagination, 1-436 (numbers often omitted on versos); section with music [pp. 247-436] has original ink foliation, 1-160(?), which includes folios now missing. (Foliation inaccurate and inconsistent due to misbinding and faulty renumbering by later hands).
Decoration
Inked initials.
Index
Modern list of contents of composite volume on second modern flyleaf. Original index of musical portion on pp. 433-434 lists 171 pieces in alphabetical order by title; 46 pieces listed in index now missing, other pieces added to manuscript after index was prepared.
Surface
ii paper + 123 parchment + 95 paper
RISM Description
RISM B IV/5:
XVe s. 94 ff. (= 188 p.). Papier. 206X276 mm. Foliotation ancienne maintenant très inexacte, et pagination moderne: 247-135. Notation mesurée blanche. 7 ou 8 portées par p. Aux. pp. 433-434, table du ms. de la main du copiste principal, aux ff. 39 et 48, quelques lignes de musique copiées postérieurement.
Le Ms. 871 est un recueil factice comprenant des mss. liturgiques (sans musique) copiés sur parchemin au XlIIe s. et un ms. musical (le seul qui nous intéresse ici) copié sur papier deux siècles plus tard et occupant les pp. 247 à 435 de la pagination continue attribuée assez récemment au volume entier. La table qui figure aux pp. 433-434 permet de constater que de nombreuses pièces du ms. primitif ont disparu, tandis que d'autres ont été ajoutées postérieurement. Bien que le ms. primitif semble être de la main d'un seul scribe, très certainement italien, la copie a dû s'étaler sur une période de dix ou même vingt ans. Les filigranes tous datés des environs de 1470 et le répertoire qui, à côté de Dufay et Ockeghem, comporte aussi des musiciens plus jeunes comme Compère et Caron, suggèrent les 2 dernières décennies du XVe s. comme la date la plus probable de la copie. Très probablement compilé par un moine de SS. Severino e Sossio de Naples, ou de S. Angelo de Gaeta, ville qui faisait alors partie du royaume de Naples, il représente l'unique collection musicale de la 2e moitié du XVe s. en nette liaison avec la cour de Naples, dont il reflète les goûts avec un répertoire à peu près également réparti entre le religieux (61 pièces) et le profane (76 pièces). A l'occasion de réfections successives de la reliure, de nombreux noms d'auteurs ont disparu, des feuillets ont été perdus, l'ordre des cahiers a été bouleversé, la foliotation ancienne, qui devient de ce fait a peu près inutilisable, révélant alors qu'environ 1/5e du ms. mq. actuellement.
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Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Sanctus fragment, 1 Mass Proper section, 3 Magnificats, 6 psalms, 35 hymns, 2 Lamentations, 15 motets, 4 laude, 3 motet-chansons, 32 French secular pieces, 26 Italian secular pieces, 8 Spanish secular pieces, 1 Latin/Italian secular piece, 5 textless pieces or fragments = 142 + 2 duplicates = 144
Anthonius Piccardus-1, (Bedingham)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable) -1, (Bedingham/Frye)-1, (Caron)-1, Compère-1, Cornago-S, Cornago-Ockeghem-1, Damianus-2, Dufay-14, Dufay/(Binchois) -1, Dufay/(Ockeghem)-1, (Dux Burgensis)-1, Gafori-2, (Haynevan Ghizeghem)-2, (Janue)-1, (Molinet)-1, Ockeghem-2, Oriola-2, (Quadris)-1, Ycart [Bernardus]-1, anon-96
ii paper + 123 parchment + 95 paper folios, 276 x 206. Composite of several originally separate fascicles bound together in late 17th century. Only paper folios contain music; parchment folios contain miscellaneous religious writings (book of martyrs, rules for Benedictine Order, etc.) Paper folios trimmed at time of binding, obliterating many attributions and some foliation. At least 70 folios lost; some folios now bound in incorrect order.
Modern pencil pagination, 1-436 (numbers often omitted on versos); section with music [pp. 247-436] has original ink foliation, 1-160(?), which includes folios now missing. (Foliation inaccurate and inconsistent due to misbinding and faulty renumbering by later hands). Rebound in modern covers of yellow leather over boards, with inscription "N 871 / Martyrologium / Musica" on spine; leather spine of earlier (but not original) binding pasted inside present covers. Modern list of contents of composite volume on second modern flyleaf. Original index of musical portion on pp. 433-434 lists 171 pieces in alphabetical order by title; 46 pieces listed in index now missing, other pieces added to manu-script after index was prepared.
Main scribe probably a Benedictine monk at monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC) or monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP); textless fragments on pp. 323, 429, and 432 are later additions in a different hand. Inked initials. Watermarks resemble Briquet #462, #746, #2066 [= arms of Aragon], #3562-5(?), #3725, #7698, #11181, #12149.
Ca. 1480-1500; repertory ca. 1430-80 (PopeMC); non-musical portions date from 13th and 14th centuries. Section with music probably copied at Benedictine monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP), or Benedictine monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC). Owned by latter monastery in 16th century (inscription on p. 247: "Est monasterij sancti angeli palantani de gaieta signatus lettera et numero"). Brought to central monastery of Benedictine Order at Monte Cassino at an unknown time, probably in 16th or 17th century.
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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, 24-5,28,33-4,36,38,165-9. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Ward, Tom Robert. 1979. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from 1400 to 1520: A Descriptive Inventory. RMS, vol. 3. American Institute of Musicology. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
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. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; facsimile (partial); texts; mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1977. On the Neapolitan Provenance of the Manuscript Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, 431 (G 20). Musica Disciplina, 31: 45ff. Pages: 45ff, 78-9, 86ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Thompson, James (editor). 1976. Les Oeuvres Completes de Philippe (?) Caron. Transcription et Notes Critiques de James Thomson. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: II, iv.xvii, 197-200. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I,136ff,248, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Ruhland, Konrad. 1975. Der Mehrstimmige Psalmvortrag im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Psalmodie auf der Grundlage von Faburdon, Fauxbourdon und Falsobordone. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich), Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 194-229, 313-8. Notes: contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Reidemeister, Peter. 1973. Die Chanson-Handschrift 78 C 28 des Berliner Kupferstichkabinetts: Studien zur Form der Chanson im 15. Jahrhundert. Berliner Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, vol. 4. Munich. Pages: 21,27-8,68,73,84ff, facsimile follows Transcription Nr. 34. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Cattin, Giulio. 1972. Canti polifonici del repertorio benedettino in uno sconosciuto 'Liber quadragesimalis' e in altre fonti italiane dei secoli XV e XVI ine. Benedictina, 14: 445-527. Pages: 471ff,487,491-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Ward, Tom Robert. 1972. The Polyphonic Office Hymn and the Liturgy of Fifteenth Century Italy. Musica Disciplina, 26: 161-88. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Avagliano, F. 1970. I Codici liturgici dell'Archivio di Montecassino. Benedictina, 17: 300ff. Pages: 300ff, n° 121.
Osthoff, Wolfgang. 1969. Theatergesang und Darstellende Musik in der Italienischen Renaissance. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 14. Tutzing. Pages: I,23-4. Notes: transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II, 68ff et 158ff.
Besseler, Heinrich. 1968. Falsche Autornamen in den Handschriften Strassburg (Vitry) und Montecassino (Dufay). Acta Musicologica, 40: 201-3. Pages: 201.
Haberkamp, Gertraut. 1968. Die weltliche Vokalmusik in Spanien um 1500. Der Cancionero musical de Colombina von Sevilla und außerspanische Handschriften. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 12. Tutzing. Pages: 66.
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 149. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).
Gülke, Peter. 1961. Das Volkslied in der burgundischen Polyphonie des 15. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift Heinrich Besseler zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, Leipzig. Pages: 182,192,199-201. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Picker, Martin. 1960. The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria: Manuscripts 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,362. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Stevenson, Robert. 1960. Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus. The Hague. Pages: 122-4,183,202-3,218-9,223,299. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pope, Isabel. 1958-61. The Secular Compositions of Johannes Cornago. Miscelânea en Homenaje a Monsenor Higinio Angles, 689-706. Barcelona. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Gerber, Rudolf. 1956. Zur italienischen Hymnenkomposition im 15. Jahrhundert. Acta Musicologica, 28: 75-86. Pages: 76ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gerber, Rudolf. 1956. Die Hymnen der Handschrift Monte Cassino 871. Anuário Musical, 11: 1-21. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Pope, Isabel. 1954. La musique espagnole à la cour de Naples dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle. 35. Paris. Pages: 41.
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Ghisi, Federico. 1948. Canzoni profane italiane del secondo Quat trocento in un codice musicale di Montecassino. Revue Belge de Musicologie, 2: 8ff. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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Montacassino Sanctus now given to Vincenet; Strahov Sanctus added as concocordnace of Trent 91; and all linked together as parts of same mass.
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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