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.164 (Altus), 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' (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'.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Florence, Italy
Note: According to <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>, the same scribe copied Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, Ms. Basevi 2440 and Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi 178 (see <a href="/bibliography/#entry960" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, eds Charles Hamm and Herbert Kellman, 5 vols, Renaissance Manuscript Studies 1 (Neuhausen/Stuttgart 1979-1988)"><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Census-Catalogue</a> 1979-1988, I, p. 230.

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.

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

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: iii + 122 + iii

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 108 x 170

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom left, 1-122
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 (bifolium71--80); a pair of crossed arrows and surmounted by a star (bifolium [i]-[ii]), similar to Briquet no. 6290 (Udine 1521) and nos. 6295-96 (Florence 1521-22 and 1526-28).
Roman numerals in the upper margins counting consecutive pieces.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always
Ruling pattern	fairly 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
no separate text	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
notation and staves extended into margin	occasionally	7r, 13r, 24r, 25v, 36r, 46r, 46v, 67r, 105r

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	altus	normally
provided with single incipit	altus	occasionally	ff. 87v-88v

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

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
repeat signs	37v, 74r
Line fillers	Folios	Note
often		Placed at the end of pieces.
Later changes	Folios
Added 'Te deum laudamus'	122v

Text

Types of script	cursive (italic)
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	brown
Multiple texts	yes 37v, 73v, 74r, 79v, 80r, 102r
Text repetitions	fairly many
Abbreviations	very few
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	'A diu a deus Amours: Altus Require in cantu: In canone' (f. 80v); 'Gloria Patri ut supra' (f. 103r); 'Te deum laud. Alto Chorus incipit' (f. 122v), 80v, 103r, 122v

Decoration

Level of Decoration	poor

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

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