I-Fn MS II.I.212

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy

manuscript of polyphony: 14th century

Archive Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy (I-Fn)
Shelfmark MS II.I.212
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Other
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 297 x 272 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: F 19
  • olim (Former shelfmark): Banco Rari 19
Notations
  • mensural
  • square
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Provenance
  • Italy
Contents Contains 10 compositions, 10 are anonymous.
General Description

8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front, followed at f. 10 by a corpus of laude (without music); music starts at f. 71. From f. I-LXX there are sequences, together with a few motets based on sequence texts; this section may have belonged to a different manuscript.

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Binding

Modern binding of wooden boards covered in half-leather (the 2 unnumbered paper flyleaves both at front and back belong with the modern binding)

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Notation

large black square notes; motets in mensural notation ( employs semibreves, minims and major semibreves (i.e. with a descending tail) as well as longs, breves and c.o.p. ligatures)

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Ruling

6 red four-line staves per page

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Foliation

Red folioation begins at real f. 10 (8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front are not numbered): extends from I-LXX, but apparently f. 2-5, 20, 22, 23, 27 and one or two pages at the end of the section are missing from this total. From f. 71 onwards a modern ink foliation appears at t.r.r.

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Foliation

72v-85

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Surface

parchment interleaved with tissue

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 1: A 14th century parchment manuscript, interleaved with tissue, whose 98 folios meas. 297 x 272 mm. There are 2 unnumbered paper flyleaves both at front and back which go with the modern binding of wooden boards covered in half-leather. 8 pages of a calendar and 1 of prayers at the front are not numbered. The corpus of laude, for which no music is provided, begins on the real f. 10, which is numbered I in red at t.m.r. This red foliation goes from I-LXX, but apparently f. 2-5, 20, 22, 23, 27 and one or two pages at the end of the section are missing from this total. The musical part of the ms starts at f. 71, and, from here on, a modern ink foliation appears at t.r.r. This may have been a different manuscript from f. I-LXX originally, since it is made up of sequences, together with a few motets based on sequence texts. The notation consists of large black square notes on 6 red four-line staves per page. The motets are in mensural notation, which employs semibreves, minims and major semibreves (i.e. with a descending tail) as well as longs, breves and c.o.p. ligatures.

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
71 ... e ergo mater ferens - Anonymous

... e ergo mater ferens

Anonymous
Appears on: 71
Genres: Marian antiphon
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: ... e ergo mater ferens
72v–73 Verbum partis hodie processit - Anonymous

Verbum partis hodie processit

Anonymous
Appears on: 72v–73
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Verbum partis hodie processit
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: f2
Layout

parts
73–74 Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum - Anonymous

Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: 73–74
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 3
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c3
Voice Text: Verbum caro factum est
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c2
Voice Text: Salve, virgo nobilis Maria
Voice: Tenor
Languages: Latin
Clef: c4
Voice Text: [Verbum]
Layout

parts
79–80 Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus - Anonymous

Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus

Anonymous
Appears on: 79–80
Genres: Motet, Veni sancte spiritus
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: c5
Voice Text: Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: [Veni, pater divine spiritus]
General Note

T om.

Layout

parts
84–85 Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie - Anonymous

Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie

Anonymous
Appears on: 84–85
Genres: Motet
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Clef: f4
Voice Text: Ave, Ihesu Christe, verbum patris
Voice: Tenor
Languages: none
Clef: c4
Layout

parts
[-] Benedicamus verbum - Anonymous

Benedicamus verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Benedicamus verbum

Item Bibliography

Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1.  Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: [facs.] plate LXXVII.

[-] Verbum patris hodie processit - Anonymous

Verbum patris hodie processit

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Verbum patris hodie processit

Item Bibliography

Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1.  Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: [facs.] plates LXXVII.

[-] Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum - Anonymous

Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - [Verbum]

Item Bibliography

Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1.  Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: [facs.] plates LXXVII-LXXVIII.

[-] Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie - Anonymous

Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie

Item Bibliography

Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1.  Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: [facs.] plates LXXXI-LXXXII.

[-] Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus - Anonymous

Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus

Anonymous
Appears on: [-]
Genres: Motet, Veni sancte spiritus
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus

Item Bibliography

Geering, Arnold (editor). 1935. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik.  Leipzig, Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, and Wiesbaden. Pages: (52/53/I), [facs.] no. 59.

Gallo, Franco Alberto, and Giuseppe Vecchi (editors). 1968. I più antichi monumenti sacri italiani. I: Edizione fotografica, Monumenta Lyrica Medii Aevi Italica, 3: Mensurabilia, 1, vol. 3, Mensurabilia, 1.  Bologna: Universita degli studi di Bologna. Pages: [facs.] plates LXXIX-LXXX.

Arlt, Wulf, and Mathias Stauffacher (editors). 1986. Engelberg Stiftsbibliothek Codex 314, edited in facsimile with commentary. Schweizerische Musikdenkmäler, vol. II.  Winterthur/Switzerland: Amadeus Verlag. Pages: [facs.] 140-141.

Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
... e ergo mater ferens Anonymous 71
Ave Jesu Christe - Jesu dator venie Anonymous [-]
Ave Jesu Christe / Jesu dator venie Anonymous 84–85
Benedicamus verbum Anonymous [-]
Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum Anonymous 73–74
Veni sancte spiritus - Veni pater divine spiritus Anonymous [-]
Veni, sancte spiritus, et emitte / Veni, pater divine spiritus Anonymous 79–80
Verbum caro factum est - Salve virgo nobilis - Verbum Anonymous [-]
Verbum partis hodie processit Anonymous 72v–73
Verbum patris hodie processit Anonymous [-]

‡ denotes primary source study

Reaney, Gilbert (editor). 1966. Répertoire international des sources musicales. Series B IV, vol. 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century.  Munich-Duisburg: G. Henle Verlag. Pages: 790-791.

Rokseth, Y. 1935+1939. Les Polyphonies du XIVe siecle. 4 vols. Pages: I and III, no. 284 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Mo); IV, 80, 293.

Wolf, Johannes. 1931); American reprint: 'Music of earlier times. Vocal and instrumental examples; 13th century to Bach'. (New York, 1946. Sing-und Spielmusik aus älterer Zeit.  Leipzig. Pages: no. 4 (transcription of no. 1).

Anglès, Higinio. 1931. El Còdex musical de las Huelgas. 3 vols. Pages: II—III, no. 120 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Hú); I, 279.

Handschin, Jacques. 1928. Angelomontana Polyphonica. Schweizerisches Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, 3: 64ff. Pages: 68, 83.

Besseler, Heinrich. 1926. Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters: II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philipp van Vitry. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 8: 137-258. Pages: II, 178.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 209, 300 f, 304, 307.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation.  Halle: Niemayer. Pages: 226, 445.

Aubry, Pierre. 1908. Cent Motets du XIIIe siècle. 3 vols. Pages: I—II, no. 98 (facsimile and transcription of no. 2 after Ba); III, 108.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1908. Die mehrstimmigen Werke der Handschrift Engelberg 314. Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, 21: 48ff. Pages: 55.

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