Recovered from binding of later book. Apparently the only surviving remnants of Tenor and Bassus partbooks, from a set originally of five volumes. Copied by Jean Michel, a copyist at the Este court in Ferrara (RifNL). Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as 'Codex DCCCXXXVI' (RifNL). Copied in Ferrara, for use at the court of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Este family library transferred from Ferrara to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892.

Modern covers of grey cardboard, with leather spine and corners.

not indicated

Dates 1678 and 1679 on several fragments probably indicate when folios were used as binding material

16 ff

Modern pencil foliation, 1-16

Some inked calligraphic initials

parchment

RISM

XVIe s. 16ff. Parchemin, 138 x 214 mm. pour les ff. entiers. Foliotation moderne au bas des ff. Des ff. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15 et 16, il ne reste que des fragments. Notation mesurée blanche. 4 portées par p. Capitales ornées à la plume. Partie de T seult.

Restes très abimés d'un manuscrit, réunis suivant un ordre anarchique, en un petit volume où l'on a reconnu récemment la partie de T appartenant au même ensemble que le ms. GB-Lbm 19583 qui, lui, ne contient que la partie d'A dont le début serait le ms. F-Pn 4599 (cf. L. Bernstein). On retrouve dans le ms. de Modène 18 pièces (toujours incompl.) sur 30 du ms. de Londres.

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15 motets, 3 French secular pieces = 18 (most fragmentary)

(Bauldeweyn)-1, (Brunet)-1, (Carpentras)-1, (C. Festa)-1, (Gauvain)-1, (Jhan of Ferrara)-2, Josquin-2, (Moulu)-1, Mouton-2, Richafort-4, Willaert-1, anon-1

16 parchment folios or fragments of folios, recovered from binding of later book. Unmutilated folios measure 137 x 212; others are scraps, of irregular sizes. Apparently the only surviving remnants of T and B partbooks from an original set of 5; portions of A book now LonBL 19583 (LowMCE) and ParisBNN 4599 (RifNL); D and Q books apparently lost. Modern pencil foliation, 1-16. Modern covers of gray cardboard, with leather spine and corners. The scribe was Jean Michel, a copyist at the Este court in Ferrara (RifNL); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Some inked calligraphic initials. Complete original contents known through 18th-century Catalogus estensum manuscriptorum codicum preserved in Archivio di Stato in Modena, which lists one of the partbooks as "Codex DCCCXXXVI" (RifNL).

Ca. 1535 (Rifkin). Copied in Ferrara, for use at the court of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1508-59). Este family library transferred from Ferrara to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892. Dates 1678 and 1679 on several fragments probably indicate when folios were used as binding material.