I-Nn VI E 40 | Naples Choirbook of L'Homme armé Masses

Full title

Projects

Corpus of 15th-Century Anonymous Masses

Performing forces

1 (4vv) | 2 (4vv) | 3 (4vv) | 4 (4vv)

Associated people

Beatrice of Naples - Dedicatee/Owner
Charles le Téméraire - Dedicatee/Owner

Publication place and date

Brugge (Belgium)
1470/1475

Edition type

No information.

Catalogues

CENSUS NapBN 40
DIAMM
RISM B IV, I-Nn 40

Digitisations

[I-Nn] Italy, Napoli - Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III
- VI E 40: Open facsimile

Format

443 x 313 mm., i paper + 64 parchment + i paper folios

Number of volumes

Description

64 folios, parchment. A cycle of 6 anonymous L'homme armé Masses.
Franco-flemish scribe (f. 64). f. 64, dedicatory poem to Beatrice d'Aragon («Ad serenissimam Ungarie reginam») with a line mentionning «Charolus hoc prínceps quondam gaudere solebat») apparently refering to Charles the Bold.
Copied by two scribes: one (A) copied the music for the discantus and the two contratenors on 1r-31v, 33v, and 45v-63v (this scribe also worked on BrusBR 5557); the second (B), copied the tenor in the entire ms., and other voices in 1r (only the 'Christe'), 1v-2r, 10r-11r, 22r-23r, 32r-33r, 35r (only the 'Domine Deus' in the second contra), and 44r-45r. Overall, FerrariNF considers B more musically accomplished and the likely compiler of the ms., copying the beginning of the central masses, and setting out the overall structure of the manuscript, which A then completed.
Musical edition in CMM 85.

Works

6 in database

[1] ff. 1-9v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [I], I-Nn 40
[2] ff. 10v-21v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [II], I-Nn 40
[3] ff. 22-31v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [III], I-Nn 40
[4] ff. 32v-43v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [IV], I-Nn 40
[5] ff. 44-52v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [V], I-Nn 40
[6] ff. 53v-63v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [VI], I-Nn 40

[1] ff. 1-9v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [I], I-Nn 40
[2] ff. 10v-21v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [II], I-Nn 40
[3] ff. 22-31v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [III], I-Nn 40
[4] ff. 32v-43v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [IV], I-Nn 40
[5] ff. 44-52v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [V], I-Nn 40
[6] ff. 53v-63v Anonymous - Missa L’homme armé [VI], I-Nn 40

Holding institutions

1 copy in 1 institution

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Shelf mark

VI E 40
Type

Music manuscript in choirbook
Performing forces

1 (4vv) | 2 (4vv) | 3 (4vv) | 4 (4vv)
Digitised version

Open facsimile

Contributors

Agostino Magro - Project manager

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