CZ-Ps MS DG IV 47 (Strahov Codex)

Strahov Monastery Library (Museum of Czech Literature, Strahov Library), Prague, Czech Republic

manuscript of polyphony: 1460-80

Archive Strahov Monastery Library (Museum of Czech Literature, Strahov Library), Prague, Czech Republic (CZ-Ps)
Shelfmark MS DG IV 47 (Strahov Codex)
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Surface Paper
Format portrait
Measurements 215 x 150 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: PragP 47
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Provenance
  • Bavaria, Germany
Contents Contains 327 compositions, 66 from 16 composers, 261 are anonymous.
General Description

Copied by one main scribe; five additional scribes, as follows: (1) assembled folios in present order and added substantial number of pieces on openings left blank by main scribe; (2) wrote Mass on ff. 121'-126' + 127'-131; (3) wrote Mass on ff. 132-138; (4) wrote textless piece on f. 123; (5) made later additions at various places throughout manuscript (SnowM).

Repertory in five main sections: I (ff. 1-46): Introits, with earliest layer generally ordered according to liturgical calendar; II (ff. 46'-175'): Mass Ordinary cycles and sections; III (ff. 176-257'): motets, miscellaneous liturgical pieces, and other works; IV (ff. 258-286'): hymns; V (ff. 287-305'): Magnificats.

Probably copied in Bohemia or Silesia (SnowM); possibly copied in Moravia, perhaps for use at Olomouc Cathedral or similar institution (StroNA). Acquired at an unknown time by Strahov Premonstratensian monastery (subsequently disbanded) in Prague; library of former monastery now administered by Czech National Literary Academy.

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Binding

Original covers of leather over wooden boards, with metal hinges and clasps.

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Notation

gothic chant and black void mensural

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Foliation

Modern foliation on upper right rectos, 1-306 ('68' applied to two consecutive folios; several other errors subsequently corrected); modern pagination on lower center margins, 1-611 ('91,' '235,' and '247' each applied to two consecutive pages).

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Foliation

1-307

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Decoration

Some inked initials, most in Gothic style, a few in calligraphic style; initials on ff. 176, 186', 206', 210, and 258 larger and more elaborately decorated; initials on f. 176 and f. 186' include floral borders. Identified watermarks all of southeast German provenance (SnowM).

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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10 Masses, 2 Kyrie-Gloria pairs, 2 Gloria-Credo pairs, 1 Sanctus-Agnus pair, 21 Kyries, 1 Gloria, 8 Sanctus, 2 Agnus, 58 Mass Proper sections (mostly Introits), 14 Magnificats, 60 office hymns, 9 processional hymns (1 fragmentary), 73 motets (1 without text), 1 German sacred piece, 2 German secular pieces, 1 French secular piece, 1 Italian secular piece, 1 Latin secular piece, 16 textless pieces = 283 + 9 duplicates = 292

(Barbingant)-1, Basiron? [Philipi]-3 + 1?, Batty-2, (Brolo)-1, (Cornago)-1, (Du Fay)-1 + 2?, Du Fay-anon-1, Flemmik-3, Frye [watlin frew]-2, Pullois [Piloys Iohannes]-3, Sandley [Standly]-1, (Tinctoris)-1, Touront [Thauranth]-11, (Vincenet)-1, (P. Wilhelmi?)-1, anon-247

307 paper folios, 215 x 150. Modern foliation on upper right rectos, 1-306 ("68" applied to two consecutive folios; several other errors subsequently corrected); modern pagination on lower center margins, 1-611 ("91," "235," and "247" each applied to two consecutive pages). Blank folios or blank staves only on ff. 7'-9, 14'-15, 18, 24', 25'-26, 27'-29, 33'-34, 35'-36, 41'-42, 50'-51, 68[a]', 98'-99, 100'-101, 104'-105, 119'-121, 139', 151', 175', 183', 192, 201'-202, 228, 266'-267, 278', 286', 306-306'. Original covers of leather over wooden boards, with metal hinges and clasps. No index.

Gothic chant notation used for some incipits and, occasionally, entire voice parts; all other music in white mensural notation. Copied by one main scribe; five additional scribes, as follows: (1) assembled folios in present order and added substantial number of pieces on openings left blank by main scribe; (2) wrote Mass on ff. 121'-126' + 127'-131; (3) wrote Mass on ff. 132-138; (4) wrote textless piece on f. 123; (5) made later additions at various places throughout manuscript (SnowM). Some inked initials, most in Gothic style, a few in calligraphic style; initials on ff. 176, 186', 206', 210, and 258 larger and more elaborately decorated; initials on f. 176 and f. 186' include floral borders. Identified watermarks all of southeast German provenance (SnowM).

Repertory in five main sections: I (ff. 1-46): Introits, with earliest layer generally ordered according to liturgical calendar; II (ff. 46'-175'): Mass Ordinary cycles and sections; III (ff. 176-257'): motets, miscellaneous liturgical pieces, and other works; IV (ff. 258-286'): hymns; V (ff. 287-305'): Magnificats.

Ca. 1460-80. Probably copied in Bohemia or Silesia (SnowM); possibly copied in Moravia, perhaps for use at Olomouc Cathedral or similar institution (StroNA). Acquired at an unknown time by Strahov Premonstratensian monastery (subsequently disbanded) in Prague; library of former monastery now administered by Czech National Literary Academy.

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‡ denotes primary source study

Mrackova, Veronika. 2014. Polyphonic Office Hymns with Local Traits in the Prague Strahov Codex. Hudebni Veda (Musical Science), Vol 51 (1-2): 91-104. Notes: provenance.

‡ Gancarczyk, Pawel. 2006. The Dating and Chronology of the Strahov Codex. Hudebni Veda (Musical Science), Vol 46 issue 2: 135-145. Notes: watermarks, physical structure.

[No Author] 2005. Proceedings?

Gancarczyk, Pawel. 2004. The Links between the Strahov Codex and Austria and the Imperial Court of Frederick III. Muzyka (Music), Vol 49 issue 2(193): 79-88. Notes: provenance.

Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.

Curtis, Gareth R K. 1981. Jean Pullois and the Cyclic Mass-Or a Case of Mistaken Identity? Music and Letters, 62: 41-59. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Strohm, Reinhard. 1979. Die Missa super 'Nos amis' von Johannes Tinctoris. Die Musikforschung, 32: 34-51. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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).

Černý, Jaromír. 1975. Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz: Neznámy Skladatel Doby Dufayovy v Ceskych Pramenech. Hudební Veda, 12: 195-238. Pages: 234. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Schmalz, Robert F, II. 1971. Selected Fifteenth Century Polyphonic Mass Ordinaries Based Upon Pre-existent German Material. University of Pittsburgh, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 43-73,84,138-53,232-8,265-87. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Snow, Robert Joseph. 1969. The Mass-Motet Cycle: A Mid-Fifteenth-Century Experiment. Essays in Musicology in Honor of Dragan Plamenac on His 70th Birthday, 301-20. Pittsburgh. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Ward, Tom Robert. 1969. The Polyphonic Office Hymn from the Late Fourteenth Century Until the Early Sixteenth Century. University of Pittsburgh, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 115-24,158-60,224ff, 576-81, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

‡ Snow, Robert Joseph. 1968. The Manuscript Strahov D.G.IV.47. University of Illinois, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; incipits; transcription (partial); texts (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Gülke, Peter (editor). 1967. Johannis Pullois: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 41.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xiv-xviii,27-31. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 156. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Kenney, Sylvia W. 1964. Walter Frye and the Contenance Angloise.  New Haven and London. Pages: 28-9,65-8,79,153. Notes: contents list (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Harrison, Frank Llewellyn (editor). 1963-. Early English Church Music.  London: Stainer & Bell. Pages: XXII, 183ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1960. Browsing Through a Little-Known Manuscript (Prague, Strahov Monastery, D.G. IV. 47). Journal of the American Musicological Society, 13: 102-11. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Plamenac, Dragan. 1958. German Polyphonic Lieder of the 15th Century in a Little-Known Manuscript. International Musicological Society: Report of the Seventh Congress, Cologne 1958, 214-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Snížková-Škrhová, Jitka. 1958. Ceská Polyfonni Tvorba.  Prague. Pages: II, 26-7,96. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).

de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V,v,xliii,133. Notes: contents list (partial); transcription (partial); texts (partial).

Orel, Dobroslav. 1914. Der Mensuralkodex "Speciálnik": Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mensuralmusik und Notenschrift in Böhmen bis 1540.  Vienna. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Hlavkova-Mrackova, Lenka. None. Cantio, Lied or Chanson. The Strahov Codex as a 15th Century Song Treasury. Hudebni Veda (Musical Science), Vol 50 issue 3-4: 259-270. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

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