Manuscript: Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.117

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Fn 117

DIAMM Source Key: 1404

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1505-1515

Written probably in Florence, but primarily by a French scribe, after c. 1508-1511, the date assumed for the composition of Josquin de Prez's 'Plus nulz regret', and before 1520, with numerous concordances datable c. 1515 (Bernstein 1986). A number of scribes made further additions, including Francesco Corteccia (Owens 1997).

Location of origin: Florence, Italy

Provenance

1. Inscribed: 'D[omi]no Nicc[ol]o d'Alexandro Antonio' (f. 28r) and 'D[omi]no Ant[oni]o di Jaccopo' f. [65]v, 16th century; 2. Biblioteca Medicea Palatina Lotaringia, the collection of Francis I (Francis Stephen, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Holly Roman Emperor (b. 1705, d. 1765), that incorporated earlier Medici collections: its stamp with the arms of Medici-Lorraine (f. 2r); donated in 1771 to the Biblioteca Magliabechiana, the future Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale: label 'Selezione Magliabechiana; with the shelfmark 'Magl. XIX 117' and provenance note 'Provenienza Med. Pal' (inside front cover).

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: France
Note: The earliest layer was copied by a French scribe; subsequent additions by several other scribes, including one (probably also a Frenchman) who added several pieces to I-Fn 107bis (<a href="/bibliography/#entry815" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Rifkin, Joshua, 'Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26 (1973), 305–26 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Rifkin 1973</a>).

Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.117, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: ii + 64 +ii

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 162 x 244

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation, recto top right, [1]-88 (ff. 28-31, 35-36, 43-44, 47-61, 84, and 89 now missing; ff. 1, 22-23, 25-27, 32-33, 45-46, 62-63, 85, and 88 lack numbers).
2. Two sets of modern pencil foliations, one recto top right, one recto bottom left, both 1-64: in the upper right corner and in the lower left corner, both 1-64.

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		Vertical bounding lines only.
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
single	often	1r-3r, 4v-9r, 10v-13r, 14v-17r, 18v-22r, 24v-26r, 29v-35r, 40v-43r, 44v-46r, 48v-58r, 60r, 61v-64r	Indentation of music and text over ruled staves; occurs on all or some voice parts--if the latter usually the lower voices.
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	sometimes
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
not in dedicated space	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
partial additional staves	rarely	29r	drawn free hand
notation extended into margin	rarely	27r-v, 34v, 56r
staves extended into margin	rarely	33r
staveline added	rarely	1r, 7v, 12v, 15r, 42r, 59v
notation and staves extended into margin	sometimes	3r, 7r, 9r, 10r, 13r, 14v, 16r, 24r, 26v, 29r, 31r, 33v, 34r, 42v, 43r, 50r-v, 51v-52r, 53r, 55r, 56r, 57v

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	French, Italian, Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios
fully texted with one or two texts	all voice parts	often	1r-13r, 18v-19r, 29v-33r, 34v-35r, 44v-46r, 48v-52r, 55v-58r, 63v-64v
untexted	all voice parts	sometimes	19v-22r, 23v-26r, 27v-28r, 41v-42r, 46v-48r, 58v-63r
fully texted with one text	discantus	occasionally	13v-17r, 33v-34r, 42v-43r, 52v-55r
untexted	all except discantus	occasionally	13v-18r, 35v-36r, 40v-41r, 53v-55r
provided with single incipit	discantus	rarely	17v-18r, 35v-36r, 40v-41r
partially texted with one text	tenor	rarely	26v-27r
untexted	all except tenor	rarely	26v-27r
fully texted with one text	bassus	rarely	28v-29r
untexted	all except bassus	rarely	28v-29r
untexted	tenor	rarely	33v-34r
partially texted with one text	bassus	rarely	33v-34r
fully texted with one text	discantus and tenor	rarely	42v-43r, 52v-53r
untexted	all except discantus and tenor	rarely	52v-53r
partially texted with one text	all except discantus and tenor	rarely	42v-43r

Music

Colour(s) of notation	brown
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rhomboid noteheads; added music in round or teardrop-shaped noteheads
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	high
Level of calligraphy note	calligraphy of added music is poor.

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
end symbol	1r, 13r, 18v-21r, 25v-26r, 31r, 33r, 48r, 49r, 51r, 52v
repeat signs	17v-18r, 21v, 24v-25r
signa congruentiae	43r
Later changes	Folios
Music drafts added on blank staves by Francesco Corteccia, often in score format, often with much correction/barring.	20r, 22v-23r, 29v, 30v, 31v, 32v, 33v, 36r40r, 41v-42r, 44r, 58v-59v, 60v

Text

Types of script	cursive (bastarda)
Level of calligraphy	fair, Calligraphy of added pieces is poor.
Colour(s) of text	brown
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	fairly few
Abbreviations	fairly few
Non underlaid vocal text	additional 14r-v, 17r, added to blank staves/blank space on same opening
Liminary text	verte (cito): 8v-9r, 40v, 45v, 58v-59r, 62r composer's name: 17v-19r, 35v, 39v, 59v, 8v-9r, 17v-19r, 35v, 39v, 40v, 45v, 58v-59v, 62r
Later changes	non musical texts added to blank spaces, verso of original front flyleaf, 22r, 28r, recto of original end flyleaf

Decoration

Level of Decoration	poor

Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
penned initials	often	1r-9r, 10v-13r, 29r-35v, 42v-43r, 44v-46r, 48v-59r	calligraphic	One stave high, at start of each voice, on or before the stave.		f. 5v: head drawn in initial.
initials planned	sometimes	14v-17r, 18v-23r, 24v-26r, 40v-42r, 61v-64r		Notation indented on one stave, at start of voice part, in all voices or in lower voices.
Other decoration frequency		Folios	Other decoration type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
rarely		17v-18r	littera notabilior	Small litterae notabiliores, placed before stave.

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