The main scribe was Nicholas Ausquier, a singer and copyist at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (see ReynoldsSP for documentation of his activity shown in payment records). Five additional scribes, including Egidius Crispini, Johannes Tarentinus, and possibly David Fornant or Winochus de Oudenorde (ReynoldsM). Copied in Rome, for use at St. Peter's Basilica. Main corpus probably copied from two earlier (ca. 1458-63) manuscripts which were subsequently discarded (ReynoldsSP). Originally 268 folios or more.
V-CVbav MS S. Pietro B.80
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
manuscript of polyphony: 1474-5
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS S. Pietro B.80 |
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| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 352 x 251 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 155 compositions, 60 from 13 composers, 95 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Two original gatherings now missing between new ff. 20/21.
Binding
Original covers of reddish-brown leather over wooden boards, in poor condition; clasps now missing. Front and back covers bear identical blind-tooled designs (multi-line rectangular borders subdivided by diagonal lines into lozenge-shaped compartments, each of which contains a rosette).
Notation
not indicated
Ruling
Staff height 18.
Foliation
Modern pencil foliation, 1-249, on lower right rectos; modern stamped foliation, 1-249, on lower center rectos
Decoration
Red, blue, and brown inked initials, some in calligraphic style, others in Gothic style with tracery
Surface
parchment
RISM Description
RISM BIV/5
XVe s. 249ff. Parchemin, 363X252 mm. Foliotation ancienne en eh. arabes en haut des ff. et moderne au bas des ff. Les ff. 32, 35v à 37v, 214, 239, 249 sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 9 portées par p. Initiales ornées.
Ce ms. de plusieurs mains ne contient que des pièces religieuses classées par genre dans le ms. primitif: 1/Messes (n° 19 à 84); 2/Hymnes (n° 85 à 104); 3/ Magnificat (n° 105 à 123); 4/Antiennes (n° 124 à 143); S/Pièces liturgiques diverses (n° 1 à 15 et 144 à 147). La copie des cahiers 1 à 3 et 5 à 25, c'est à dire des ff. 1 à 31v et 38 à 249 (le 4e cahier, f. 32 à 37 étant plus tardif et d'une main tout à fait différente) a dû s'étendre sur une dizaine d'années dont on peut fixer les limites extrêmes entre 1464 et 1474, les seules pièces datables du ms. venant justifier ces dates: en 1464 Simon Meslet «magnus vicarius» à Cambrai, aurait copié «une anthienne de N. Dame ave regina celorum . . . que a fait Me G™ du Fay» et, en 1473, «unam missam super ave regina celorum» (Houdoy, 195 et 200. N°* 12 et 7 à 11 du ms.) Aussi bien les compositeurs identifiés que le style de l'écriture et des initiales ornées révèlent un ms. franco-flamand. Il faudrait donc admettre qu'il fut copié dans la France du nord (Cambrai ?) puis emporté ensuite en Italie peut-être par des musiciens flamands qui étaient alors appelés en grand nombre à Rome où, entre ca. 1486 et 1492, on y aurait copié des pièces supplémentaires (4e cahier), procédé à la foliotation et à la reliure.
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16 Masses (2 incomplete), 14 Magnificats (1 incomplete), 1 Te Deum, 27 hymns, 28 motets = 86 + 1 duplicate = 87
(Barbingant)-1 + 1?, (Binchois)-3, (Binchois/Dufay)-1, Caron-1, Cervelli/Domarto-1, (Compère)-1, (Dufay)-11 + 1?, (Dufay/ Dunstable)-1, (Dufay-anon)-1, (Dunstable)-1, Josquin-1, (Pullois) -1, (Ruby)-1, anon-59
248 + i parchment folios of an original 268 or more, 352 x 251. Two original gatherings now missing between new ff. 20/21. Modern pencil foliation, 1-249, on lower right rectos; modern stamped foliation, 1-249, on lower center rectos. Original covers of reddish-brown leather over wooden boards, in poor condition; clasps now missing. Front and back covers bear identical blind-tooled designs (multi-line rectangular borders subdivided by diagonal lines into lozenge-shaped compartments, each of which contains a rosette). No index.
The main scribe was Nicholas Ausquier, a singer and copyist at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome (see ReynoldsSP for documentation of Ausquier's activity in payment records). Five additional scribes, including Egidius Crispini, Johannes Tarentinus, and possibly David Fornant or Winochus de Oudenorde (ReynoldsM). Staff height 18. Red, blue, and brown inked initials, some in calligraphic style, others in Gothic style with tracery.
1474-5, with additions to ca. 1500 (ReynoldsSP). Copied in Rome, for use at St. Peter's Basilica. Main corpus probably copied from two earlier (ca. 1458-63) manuscripts which were subsequently discarded (ReynoldsSP).
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