D-Mbs Clm. 5539

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München (Munich), Germany

theory treatises and chant book with added polyphony: Early 15th century

Archive Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München (Munich), Germany (D-Mbs)
Shelfmark Clm. 5539
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 218 x 145 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: D-Mbs 5539
  • RISM: MuC
Notations
  • decadent mensural notation
  • square
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Contents 29 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Contains the Anonymous Mettenleiter (f. 1-24), a short but influential tractatulus beginning Gaudent brevitate moderni (f. 24-27) and Guido's Micrologus, etc. {f. 120-142). The musical contents consist of tropes, sequences, motets with or without T and other oddments, and are in two-part polyphony, in score. The only three-part works are nos. 5 and 18; only no. 5 is in score. A red wavy line often separates the two parts in polyphonic score writing. The rules for recognising modes have alphabetical notation over the top of the text. Probably from Augustinian monastery at Diessen.

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Binding

dark brown leather over wooden boards with blind tooling on the front and back covers.

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Notation

Varied. Square, decadent mensural (similar to that found in MS London, British Museum, Add. 27630)

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Ruling

7 red four-line staves per page (square notation); two-part polyphony in score employs 6 out of the 7 staves, leaving the bottom one blank; pair of yellow and red lines or on a single red line only

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Foliation

28v-39v, 72-81v, 146v-149

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Foliation

Modern ink fotiation at t.r.r.

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Surface

Parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: A parchment manuscript meas. 218 x 145 mm. and containing 193 folios plus 1 flyleaf at the beginning. It dates from c. 1400 at the earliest, and probably originated in the Augustinian monastery at Diessen. The modern ink fotiation is at t.r.r. Unusually, this codex is entirely concerned with music, though a considerable part of it deals with music theory. The main theoretical works are the Anonymous Mettenleiter (f. 1-24), a short but influential tractatulus beginning Gaudent brevitate moderni (f. 24-27) and Guido's Micrologus, etc. {f. 120-142), The musical contents consist of tropes, sequences, motets with or without T and other oddments, and the notation is as varied as the contents. Square notation is predominant, using 7 red four-line staves per page. The two-part polyphony in score employs 6 out of the 7 staves, leaving the bottom one blank. The only three-part works are nos. 5 and 18. Only no. 5 is in score and it takes up the bottom 6 of the 7 staves. A red wavy line often separates the two parts in polyphonic score writing. A decadent mensural notation similar to that found in ms London, British Museum, Add. 27630 is used for the polyphony. The script is semi-Gothic with red and blue or black-red initials. The front flyleaf employs the same type of neumes, elegant pedes muscarum, as the last two pages of the ms, f. 192v-193. These also occur on f. 145v-149v (which include the two-part Iube domne ... Primo tempore) and again in Guido's Epistola de ignoto cantu on a pair of yellow and red lines or on a single red line only. Finally, the rules for recognising modes have alphabetical notation over the top of the text. The binding of the ms is of dark brown leather over wooden boards with blind tooling on the front and back covers.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
28v–29 … tripudio … Benedicamus Domino - Anonymous
Appears on: 28v–29
Genres: Benedicamus Domino, Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: . . . tripudio. . . Benedicamus domino

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
General Note

almost illegible due to erasure except for last two staves

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29v–30 Sanctus, Sanctus. [Tro] Quem pium benedicit - Anonymous
Appears on: 29v–30
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Sanctus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Sanctus, Sanctus. [Tro] Quem pium benedicit
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30–30v Sanctus [Tro] Maria mater egregia - Anonymous
Appears on: 30–30v
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Sanctus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Sanctus [Tro] Maria mater egregia
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30v–31 Agnus Dei [Tro] Mortis dira ferens - Anonymous
Appears on: 30v–31
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Troped Agnus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Agnus dei [Tro] Mortis dira ferens
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31v Deus, in adjutorium intende - Anonymous
Appears on: 31v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Deus, in adiutorium intende

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Deus, in adiutorium intende

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Deus, in adiutorium intende
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32 Gaudens in Domino in hoc sollemnio - Anonymous
Appears on: 32
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: Gaudens in domino in hoc sollempnio
General Note

In natali domini ad matutinum

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32v–33v Jube Domine, silentium. Primo tempore alleviata - Anonymous
Appears on: 32v–33v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Iube domne silentium. . . Primo tempore alleviata

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: f3
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34–34v Ave, virgo virginum, verbi - Anonymous
Appears on: 34–34v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Ave, virgo virginum, verbi

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c3
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35–35v Exiit diluculo rustica - Anonymous
Appears on: 35–35v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Exiit diluculo rustica
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36 Sonent laudes pueri, sonent et provecti - Anonymous
Appears on: 36
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Sonent laudes pueri, sonent et provecti
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37–37v Gratulentur parvuli, nato rege - Anonymous
Appears on: 37–37v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: c2

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Gratulentur parvuli, nato rege
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38–39 Procurans odium effectu proprio - Anonymous
Appears on: 38–39
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Procurans odium effectu proprio
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39v Kyrie eleison - Anonymous

Kyrie eleison

Anonymous
Appears on: 39v
Genres: Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Greek
Clef: f2

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Greek
Clef: f2
Voice Text: Kyrie eleyson
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72–80v Hodie natus in Israel - 1a pars (of 2): Hodie natus in Israel - Anonymous
Appears on: 72–80v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: In seculum

Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Hodie natus in Israhel.

Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Salus virgini per quam homnium.
General Note

T om.

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72–80v Hodie natus in Israel - 2a pars (of 2): Salus virgini per quam homnium - In saeculum - Anonymous
Appears on: 72–80v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Salus virgini
72–73 Resurrexit hodie qui pridie / In saeculum - Anonymous
Appears on: 72–73
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Resurrexit hodie qui pridie

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [In seculum]
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73–73v Mellis stilla, maris stella, rosa / Domino - Anonymous
Appears on: 73–73v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: f2c4
Voice Text: Domino

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Mellis stilla, maris stella, rosa
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74–75 Ave, gloriosa mater salvatoris / Domino - Anonymous
Appears on: 74–75
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: [Domino]

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f3
Voice Text: Ave, gloriosa mater salvatoris
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75–75v O miranda Dei - 1a pars (of 2): O miranda Dei caritas, per peccatum / Salve, mater salutifera, claritatis / Kyrie - Anonymous
Appears on: 75–75v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Salve, mater salutifera, claritatis

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: O miranda dei caritas, per peccatum

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin, Greek
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Kyrie
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75–75v O miranda Dei - 2a pars (of 2): Pro defectu cure pastoralis, grex delirat - Anonymous
Appears on: 75–75v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: Contratenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: French
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Pro defectu cure pastoralis, grex delirat
General Note

substitute Mot for 18 with identical music

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75v–76v Flos de spina rumpitur, spina caret flos / Regnat - Anonymous
Appears on: 75v–76v
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Flos de spina rumpitur, spina caret flos

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: no clef
Voice Text: Regnat
General Note

Mot only

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76v–78 Quomodo fiet id, o virgo / O stupor omnium in modum - Anonymous
Appears on: 76v–78
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: O stupor omnium in modum

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Quomodo fiet id, o virgo
General Note

T om.

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78–79 Salve virgo virginum - 1a pars (of 3): Salve, virgo virginum, salve, lumen - Anonymous
Appears on: 78–79
Genres: Motet
Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: In Gedeonis vellere delituit

Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Aptatur

Voice: Altus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Salve, virgo virginum, salve, lumen
General Note

T om.

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78–79 Salve virgo virginum - 2a pars (of 3): In Gedeonis vellere - Anonymous
Appears on: 78–79
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: In gedeonis vellere
79 Salve virgo virginum - 3a pars (of 3): Speciosa preciosa dux, Haec in adiecto - Anonymous
Appears on: 79
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Speciosa preciosa dux, Hec in adiecto
79v–80 Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum - Anonymous
Appears on: 79v–80
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Verbum

Voice: Triplum
Languages: Latin
Clef: no clef
Voice Text: Salve, virgo nobilis Maria

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Verbus caro factum est
General Note

Tr only

Layout

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80v–81 Rosula fructu perfulcitur / Audi nos - Anonymous
Appears on: 80v–81
Genres: Motet
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Audi nos

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Rosula fructu perfulcitur
General Note

Mot only

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81–81v Flos virginum Maria filia - Anonymous
Appears on: 81–81v
Genres: Motet
Voice: Motetus
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Flos virginum Maria filia
General Note

Mot only

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146v–149 Jube Domine, silentium fieri. Primo tempore alleviata - Anonymous
Appears on: 146v–149
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: none
Clef: f3

Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: Iube domine silentium. . . Primo tempore alleviata
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Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Agnus Dei [Tro] Mortis dira ferens Anonymous 30v–31
Ave, gloriosa mater salvatoris / Domino Anonymous 74–75
Ave, virgo virginum, verbi Anonymous 34–34v
Deus, in adjutorium intende Anonymous 31v
Exiit diluculo rustica Anonymous 35–35v
Flos de spina rumpitur, spina caret flos / Regnat Anonymous 75v–76v
Flos virginum Maria filia Anonymous 81–81v
Gaudens in Domino in hoc sollemnio Anonymous 32
Gratulentur parvuli, nato rege Anonymous 37–37v
Hodie natus in Israel - 1a pars (of 2): Hodie natus in Israel Anonymous 72–80v
Hodie natus in Israel - 2a pars (of 2): Salus virgini per quam homnium - In saeculum Anonymous 72–80v
Jube Domine, silentium fieri. Primo tempore alleviata Anonymous 146v–149
Jube Domine, silentium. Primo tempore alleviata Anonymous 32v–33v
Kyrie eleison Anonymous 39v
Mellis stilla, maris stella, rosa / Domino Anonymous 73–73v
O miranda Dei - 1a pars (of 2): O miranda Dei caritas, per peccatum / Salve, mater salutifera, claritatis / Kyrie Anonymous 75–75v
O miranda Dei - 2a pars (of 2): Pro defectu cure pastoralis, grex delirat Anonymous 75–75v
Procurans odium effectu proprio Anonymous 38–39
Quomodo fiet id, o virgo / O stupor omnium in modum Anonymous 76v–78
Resurrexit hodie qui pridie / In saeculum Anonymous 72–73
Rosula fructu perfulcitur / Audi nos Anonymous 80v–81
Salve virgo virginum - 1a pars (of 3): Salve, virgo virginum, salve, lumen Anonymous 78–79
Salve virgo virginum - 2a pars (of 3): In Gedeonis vellere Anonymous 78–79
Salve virgo virginum - 3a pars (of 3): Speciosa preciosa dux, Haec in adiecto Anonymous 79
Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum Anonymous 79v–80
Sanctus [Tro] Maria mater egregia Anonymous 30–30v
Sanctus, Sanctus. [Tro] Quem pium benedicit Anonymous 29v–30
Sonent laudes pueri, sonent et provecti Anonymous 36
… tripudio … Benedicamus Domino Anonymous 28v–29
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