PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.164-167

Manuscript type: partbooks (complete set)

RISM siglum: I-Fn 164-7

DIAMM Source Key: 1407

Folio(s): MS Magliabechi XIX.167 (Cantus), All folios

Date: c. 1515-c. 1540

1530-1540 (Becher); 1520-1525 (Panne); c. 1515-c.1522 (Rifkin); made c. 1518-c. 1521 in Florence (Cummings 2006).

Watermark as in Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi 111-112 dating from after 1528 and MS Magliabechi 122-125 dating from 1532-1537 (see Drake 2005).

Location of origin: Florence, Italy

Provenance

1. A member of the Buonaparte family of San Miniato and Florence, perhaps Jacopo Buonaparte (b. c. 1478, d. 1541), canon of the Florence cathedral (1498) and subsequently canon of St Peter, Rome (1510), an intimate of Pope Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici): added Buonaparte coats of arms on an oval cartouche with cords (MS Magliabechi XIX. 165, ff. [I]r and [II]r); 2. inscription: 'Giovan[n]i d[i] Franco Angiolo / di Simone d'Agostino da / Et Agostino d[i] simone da Crespi... / Tomaso fi Franco da rezzano' (MS Magliabechi XIX. 164, f. III'v); 3. The Biblioteca Medicea Palatina Lotaringia, the library of Francis I (Francis Stephen), Grand Duke of Tuscany and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708, d. 1765) amalgamated with the former Medici collections: its stamp with a legend 'Bibl. Caes. Med. Palat' (in all four part-books), in 1771 transferred by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo to the Biblioteca Magliabechiana; 4. Biblioteca Magliabechiana, the future Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale: its label (inside the front cover) with a note 'Provenienza Med. Palat no. 278'.

Bibliography

Adler 1894–1970, XXXII, 238; Wolf 1913–19, I, 450, II, 8 and passim; Einstein 1939, 507-9; Hewitt 1942, 107; Becherini 1953, 79-96; Becherini 1959, 69-71; Picker 1960, 355; Gallico 1961, 79ff; Bragard 1966, 68 n. 5; Osthoff 1969, I, 41, II, 14, 38; Atlas 1971, I, 479-81; Rifkin 1973, 305-26, 312f; Atkinson 1975–, XIV, xviii-xix, xxi, 89-91; Atlas 1976, 246; Census-Catalogue 1979-1988, I, 228f; Jonas 1983, II, 8 and passim; Boorman 1983, 78, 90, 109; Brown 1987; Drake 2005; Cummings 2006.

Basis for description: original

Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.164-167, MS Magliabechi XIX.167 (Cantus), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + III + 117 + i

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 108 x 170

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: ff. Ir-IIv
Amor qu[e] io speravo no 8
Amor se vuoi che io torni .9.
Amor ch[e] mi tormenti .20.
Amor se vuoi chio torni .23.
Amor quando fioriva .26.
Amoreuse mi fault estre .98.
Adieu meus amours .59.
Alon ferons barbes .65.
Ben mi credea no. 22.
Chiare fresche et dolcaque no 11.
che' deggio fare 12.
Chi della fede' altrui 14.
Cosi nel mio parlare 15.
Che' fa la ramanzina 35.
Che'deggio fare 36.
Beb perche' modio mhai no 3.
Donna benche' di rado 7.
Don[n]a tu pure in vecchi zibaldone 91.
Don[n]e venite al ballo 92.
Entre ie suis engraz pe[n]sier no 46
E la la la la 53.
Enlombre' daung bepiz 54
Frallinfelice vino no 28.
Fortuna disperata zibaldone 39.
Frapes petit coup 56.
Forseullement 60
Forseullement 61
Gia mai no' vider' occhi no 13.
Gentil galans de fransa 63
Jampris amours zibaldone no 40
Jouly mariner 49
Impotent suis et affolle' 51
Jacquet' 57
Je suis amie' du forier orales 64
Ille' etet ung bon hom[m]e 68.
La tortorella no 37.
Lultimo di di maggio 44
Lautre' ior ie chaucyoie' 62
Nella stagion' chel ciel no 6
Nuova angioletta 17.
Notre chambrier 50.
Nas tu poynet mis 58
Or vedi amor no 19
O passi sparsi 25
Ochio che' la brunetta mia 33.
Ora e di maggio 34
Perch[e] don[n]a no' vuoi no 10.
Poi chio parti da cui partir 18.
Perchal viso regretem 67,
Quanto pui desir se[n]to lmio cor' no 1.
Quando el suave mio fido co[n]sorto 21.
Quanta mai leggadria 27.
Quel folco chio pensai 30.
Quando lo pome' 32.
Si e debile' el filo no 2
Sonio don[n] qual mostri 4.
Sonio don[n]a qual mostri 5.
Sil dixi mai 29.
So benche lei 31.
Scaramella 30.
Se yay perdu mon amy 52
Solingbo et naybo ?? angello 45 1/2 [added by a different hand]
Tanta pieta cor mio no 16
Tant ravy suys 47
Tres dolce filettes 55
Un chavalier di spagna no 43
Vaghe le montanine 45
Voles ouir une canson descons 66
Une playsant filette 69
Vorrei sap. amanti 46 1/2 [added by a later hand]

f. IIIr 'Mottecti'
Alma redemptoris no 7.
Ave maria 8.
Bona vita bona refectio no 6
Felix namque no 11.
Judica me deus no 1.
Miserere mei deus no 9
missus est angelus 10
O Bone et dulcis domine no 12.
Prophetarum maxime no 2
Paratum cor meus deus 3.
Regem co[n]fessorum no 15
Spem in aliu numque habui no 4.
Vor...mundi no 45 [added by a later hand]

Other devices: 1. Roman numerals in the upper margins indicating consecutive pieces.
2. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom left, 1-117
Watermarks: an anvil and a hammer enclosed in a circle, similar to Briquet no. 5963 (Florence 1514-1529; Fabriano 1520 and Pistoia 1535); an anchor enclosed within a circle and surmounted by a star (bifolia 14--17 and 67--76); a pair of crossed arrows and surmounted by a star (bifolia i-ii and 108--115), similar to Briquet no. 6290 (Udine 1521) and nos. 6295-96 (Florence 1521-22 and 1526-28).

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking none visible
Ruled grid always
Ruling pattern highly regular
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
brown ink always Justification lines only.
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
dark brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
triple rastrum always Measures 12.5-12.5-12 mm from top to bottom, with interspaces of 10 mm
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always Text and music indented on staves.
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
none always
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
not in dedicated space rarely f. 117r Added piece only.

Copying of text and music

Language(s) French, Italian, Latin
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
fully texted with one or two texts discantus normally
Music
Colour(s) of notation brown
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note rhomboid-shaped
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Line fillers Folios Note
often Placed at the end of pieces.
Text
Types of script cursive (italic)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text brown
Multiple texts yes
Text repetitions very many
Abbreviations very few
Non underlaid vocal text additional
117r

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials normally plain initials Initials in brown ink.