Copied by a single scribe, with corrections and emendations by two other hands. All pieces have text incipits only, frequently garbled or corrupt. Copied in Florence. Compiled for Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (1479-1516), youngest son of Lorenzo de' Medici (AtlCG). Giuliano probably took or sent manuscript to Rome c. 1513; after Giuliano's death, manuscript may have passed to his brother, Pope Leo X. Later in library of Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1743), director of Cappella Giulia from 1719; placed in Archivio della Cappella Giulia following Pitoni's death. Transferred to present library in 1942.
V-CVbav MS Capp. Giulia XIII,27 (Medici Chansonnier)
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican
manuscript of polyphony: 1492-4
| Archive | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, Vatican (V-CVbav) |
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| Shelfmark | MS Capp. Giulia XIII,27 (Medici Chansonnier) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 232 x 170 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 114 compositions, 92 from 33 composers, 22 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some folios damaged by ink corrosion; now covered with protective linen.
Binding
Original covers of brown morocco leather over wooden boards, gold stamped and blind tooled with decorative floral/rope motifs; remnants of brass clasps. Portrait of Julius Caesar and inscription 'DIVI IULI' on front and back covers.
Watermark
resembles Briquet #91
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Original ink foliation, 1-119, on upper right rectos; modern stamped foliation on lower right rectos, 1-132, begins on first original flyleaf and ends on penultimate modern flyleaf.
Decoration
Gold, blue, red, and green painted initials and miniatures on new ff. 7'-8 include Medici family coat of arms; other folios have inked calligraphic initials.
Index
Original index on new ff. 2-5' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance.
Surface
paper
RISM Description
RISM
XVe/XVIe s. 131ff. Papier, 231x167 mm. Foliotation ancienne: 1-118 en haut des ff. ne tenant pas compte des ff. limin. et foliotation moderne: 1-131 imprimée au bas des ff. Dans la fol. moderne, les ff. lr-v, 6r-v, 7, 125v à 131 sont blancs. Notation mesurée blanche. 9 portées par p. Aux ff. 2-5v, table alphabétique du ms. Miniatures et lettres ornées aux ff. 7v-8. Reliure du début du XVIe s. cuir estampé et doré portant aux plats l'effigie de Jules César et l'inscription «Divi Juli», dos en partie restauré, restes de fermoirs.
Ce ms. est entré à la Cappella Giulia en 1743, à la mort de son dernier possesseur G.O. Pitoni, maître de chapelle à la Cappella depuis 1719, qui le désigne comme «un libro antico manoscritto appreso di me». (Cf. Bibliographie générale). Les armes des Médicis qui ornent l'initiale de la chanson Palle palle, sur un hymne de louange de Poliziano et sur laquelle s'ouvre le recueil, indiquent que le ms. a été copié à l'intention de l'un des membres de cette famille, peut-être Giuliano, dernier fils de Laurent et futur Clément VII, ce qui justifierait l'effigie de Giulio Cesare à la reliure. Cette copie a été vraisemblablement faite à Florence, après le 8 avril 1492, date de la mort de Laurent puisqu'on y trouve le motet composé pour cette occasion (no 60), et avant le 9 novembre 1494, date de l'expulsion des Médicis. Cette origine est en tout cas confirmée, et par le filigrane du papier qui se retrouve dans de nombreux documents florentins de la même époque, et par la miniature de style typiquement florentin, mais surtout par le répertoire avec préférence donnée à deux compositeurs alors actifs dans la ville: Agricola (16 pièces) et Isaac (12 pièces), entourés de petits maîtres dont la réputation n'avait certainement pas franchi les limites de Florence. Deux scribes ont participé à la compilation, le 2e (peut-être Isaac lui-même) se contentant de rectifier les erreurs du 1er (certainement un italien si l'on en juge par l'orthographe fautive des nombreux textes français), de folioter le ms. et d'en établir l'index. Enfin, au début du XVIe s. (ca. 1510-1520), un 3e copiste apporte quelques légères modifications, vraisemblablement à Rome où le ms. aurait pu être apporté par Giuliano lors de son exil dans cette ville.
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1 Mass Ordinary section, 2 motets, 2 motet-chansons, 83 French secular pieces, 10 Italian secular pieces, 9 Spanish secular pieces, 2 Dutch secular pieces = 109
A. Agricola-14, A. Agricola/(Ghiselin)-1, (Barbireau/Isaac/Obrecht)-1, Bartolomeo degli Organi [Baccio]-1, Basiron-1, (Binchois)-1, (Busnois)-1, (Busnois/Japart/La Rue)-1, (Busnois/Ockeghem)-1, Caron-5, Caron/(Busnois)-1, Compère-5, Compère/(A. Agricola)-1, (Compère/Pipelare/Weerbecke)-1, (Congiet/Japart)-1, (Dufay)-1 + 1?, Enrique/(Wreede)-1, Felice de Giovanni-(Busnois)-1, Fresneau-1, Fresneau/(A. Agricola)-1, Giliardi [Arnulfus G.]-1, Hayne van Ghizeghem-5, (Hayne van Ghizeghem-anon)-1, Hayne van Ghizeghem/(Fresneau)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem/Ockeghem)-1, Isaac [Ysach]-1, Isaac/(Brumel)-1, Japart-2, (Japart/Josquin/Joye)-1, Josquin-4, Josquin/(A. Agricola)-1, Lannoy [Colinet]/ (Josquin)-1, Martini-2 + 1?, Martini/(Malcort/Ockeghem)-1, (Molinet)-1, Mureau/(Busnois/Compère)-1, Obrecht-2, Ockeghem -3, Pietrequin/(Compère)-1, Stokhem/(Compère/Rubinet)-1, Vincenet-1, Virgilius-(Obrecht)-1, anon-21
iì + vi + 119 + vi + ii paper folios, 232 x 170. Some folios damaged by ink corrosion; now covered with protective linen. Original ink foliation, 1-119, on upper right rectos; modern stamped foliation on lower right rectos, 1-132, begins on first original flyleaf and ends on penultimate modern flyleaf. Original covers of brown morocco leather over wooden boards, gold stamped and blind tooled with decorative floral/rope motifs; remnants of brass clasps. Portrait of Julius Caesar and inscription "DIVI IULI" on front and back covers.
Original index on new ff. 2-5' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance. Copied by a single scribe, with corrections and emendations by two other hands. Gold, blue, red, and green painted initials and miniatures on new ff. 7'-8 include Medici family coat of arms; other folios have inked calligraphic initials. Watermark resembles Briquet #91. All pieces have text incipits only, frequently garbled or corrupt.
1492-4 (AtlCG). Copied in Florence. Compiled for Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (1479-1516), youngest son of Lorenzo de' Medici (AtlCG). Giuliano probably took or sent manuscript to Rome ca. 1513; after Giuliano's death, manuscript may have passed to his brother, Pope Leo X. Later in library of Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657-1743), director of Cappella Giulia from 1719; placed in Archivio della Cappella Giulia following Pitoni's death. Transferred to present library in 1942.
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