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Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering
None
System
Measurements 276 x 206 mm
RISM: I-MC 871
Other Identifiers CCM: MonteA 871
olim (Former shelfmark): 871N
Notations black void mensural
? Monastery of S. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano, Gaeta (copied at)
Relationships
? Monastery of SS. Severino and Sossio (copied at)
Transcription of the whole MS
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Provenance Italy
Contents 169 pieces from 22 composers.
General Description
Composite of several originally separate fascicles bound together in late 17th century. Only paper folios
contain music; parchment folios contain miscellaneous religious writings (book of martyrs, rules for
Benedictine Order, etc.) Main scribe probably a Benedictine monk at monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de
Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC) or monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP); textless fragments
on pp. 323, 429, and 432 are later additions in a different hand. Section with music probably copied at
Benedictine monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP), or Benedictine monastery of St.
Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC). Owned by latter monastery in 16th century (inscription on
p. 247: 'Est monasterij sancti angeli palantani de gaieta signatus lettera et numero'). Brought to central
monastery of Benedictine Order at Monte Cassino at an unknown time, probably in 16th or 17th century.
Physical Description
Paper folios trimmed at time of binding, obliterating many attributions and some foliation. At least 70 folios
lost; some folios now bound in incorrect order.
Binding
Rebound in modern covers of yellow leather over boards, with inscription 'N 871 / Martyrologium / Musica' on
spine; leather spine of earlier (but not original) binding pasted inside present covers.
Watermark
resemble Briquet #462, #746, #2066 = arms of Aragon, #3562-5(?), #3725, #7698, #11181, #12149.
Notation
black void mensural notation
Foliation
Modern pencil pagination, 1-436 (numbers often omitted on versos); section with music pp. 247-436 has
original ink foliation, 1-160(?), which includes folios now missing. (Foliation inaccurate and inconsistent due to
misbinding and faulty renumbering by later hands).
Decoration
Inked initials.
Index
Modern list of contents of composite volume on second modern flyleaf. Original index of musical portion on
pp. 433-434 lists 171 pieces in alphabetical order by title; 46 pieces listed in index now missing, other pieces
added to manuscript after index was prepared.
Surface
ii paper + 123 parchment + 95 paper
RISM Description
RISM B IV/5:
XVe s. 94 ff. (= 188 p.). Papier. 206X276 mm. Foliotation ancienne maintenant très inexacte, et pagination
moderne: 247-135. Notation mesurée blanche. 7 ou 8 portées par p. Aux. pp. 433-434, table du ms. de la main
du copiste principal, aux ff. 39 et 48, quelques lignes de musique copiées postérieurement.
Le Ms. 871 est un recueil factice comprenant des mss. liturgiques (sans musique) copiés sur parchemin au
XlIIe s. et un ms. musical (le seul qui nous intéresse ici) copié sur papier deux siècles plus tard et occupant les
pp. 247 à 435 de la pagination continue attribuée assez récemment au volume entier. La table qui figure aux
pp. 433-434 permet de constater que de nombreuses pièces du ms. primitif ont disparu, tandis que d'autres
ont été ajoutées postérieurement. Bien que le ms. primitif semble être de la main d'un seul scribe, très
certainement italien, la copie a dû s'étaler sur une période de dix ou même vingt ans. Les filigranes tous datés
des environs de 1470 et le répertoire qui, à côté de Dufay et Ockeghem, comporte aussi des musiciens plus
jeunes comme Compère et Caron, suggèrent les 2 dernières décennies du XVe s. comme la date la plus
probable de la copie. Très probablement compilé par un moine de SS. Severino e Sossio de Naples, ou de S.
Angelo de Gaeta, ville qui faisait alors partie du royaume de Naples, il représente l'unique collection musicale
de la 2e moitié du XVe s. en nette liaison avec la cour de Naples, dont il reflète les goûts avec un répertoire à
peu près également réparti entre le religieux (61 pièces) et le profane (76 pièces). A l'occasion de réfections
successives de la reliure, de nombreux noms d'auteurs ont disparu, des feuillets ont été perdus, l'ordre des
cahiers a été bouleversé, la foliotation ancienne, qui devient de ce fait a peu près inutilisable, révélant alors
qu'environ 1/5e du ms. mq. actuellement.
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Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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1 Sanctus fragment, 1 Mass Proper section, 3 Magnificats, 6 psalms, 35 hymns, 2 Lamentations, 15 motets, 4
laude, 3 motet-chansons, 32 French secular pieces, 26 Italian secular pieces, 8 Spanish secular pieces, 1
Latin/Italian secular piece, 5 textless pieces or fragments = 142 + 2 duplicates = 144
Anthonius Piccardus-1, (Bedingham)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable) -1, (Bedingham/Frye)-1, (Caron)-1, Compère-
1, Cornago-S, Cornago-Ockeghem-1, Damianus-2, Dufay-14, Dufay/(Binchois) -1, Dufay/(Ockeghem)-1, (Dux
Burgensis)-1, Gafori-2, (Haynevan Ghizeghem)-2, (Janue)-1, (Molinet)-1, Ockeghem-2, Oriola-2, (Quadris)-1,
Ycart Bernardus-1, anon-96
ii paper + 123 parchment + 95 paper folios, 276 x 206. Composite of several originally separate fascicles
bound together in late 17th century. Only paper folios contain music; parchment folios contain miscellaneous
religious writings (book of martyrs, rules for Benedictine Order, etc.) Paper folios trimmed at time of binding,
obliterating many attributions and some foliation. At least 70 folios lost; some folios now bound in incorrect
order.
Modern pencil pagination, 1-436 (numbers often omitted on versos); section with music pp. 247-436 has
original ink foliation, 1-160(?), which includes folios now missing. (Foliation inaccurate and inconsistent due to
misbinding and faulty renumbering by later hands). Rebound in modern covers of yellow leather over boards,
with inscription "N 871 / Martyrologium / Musica" on spine; leather spine of earlier (but not original) binding
pasted inside present covers. Modern list of contents of composite volume on second modern flyleaf. Original
index of musical portion on pp. 433-434 lists 171 pieces in alphabetical order by title; 46 pieces listed in index
now missing, other pieces added to manu-script after index was prepared.
Main scribe probably a Benedictine monk at monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta
(PopeMC) or monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP); textless fragments on pp. 323, 429,
and 432 are later additions in a different hand. Inked initials. Watermarks resemble Briquet #462, #746,
#2066 = arms of Aragon, #3562-5(?), #3725, #7698, #11181, #12149.
Ca. 1480-1500; repertory ca. 1430-80 (PopeMC); non-musical portions date from 13th and 14th centuries.
Section with music probably copied at Benedictine monastery of Sts. Severino and Sossio in Naples (CattCP),
or Benedictine monastery of St. Michele Arcangelo de Planciano in Gaeta (PopeMC). Owned by latter
monastery in 16th century (inscription on p. 247: "Est monasterij sancti angeli palantani de gaieta signatus
lettera et numero"). Brought to central monastery of Benedictine Order at Monte Cassino at an unknown
time, probably in 16th or 17th century.
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550