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ModE M.1.13: Modena, Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, MS alpha M.1.13 (Lat.456; olim V.H. 10) OVERVIEW: Size: 560 x 385-90 i +224 paper + i parchment folios, index opens the source with items numbered I-XVIII on upper right-hand rectos, also pencil foliation (1-224) Scribe: Fra Philippo di San Giorgia, probably under the direction of Johannes Martini who most likely undertook the many revisions of masses copied into the source. Place: Ferrara Date and Breif History: l481. Along with several other choirbooks made for the ducal choir of Ercole I d'Este. Taken to Modena in 1595 and included in the Modena University library in 1892. Covers and Decoration: Leather on boards with inscription Liber Choralis. Illuminated initials for all voices throughout source in gold, red, blue, purple and green using mainly foliage and filigree designs. Literature: Herbert Kellman & Charles Hamm (eds), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. II, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1982, pp. 167-168. Lewis Lockwood., Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 213-227. Murray Steib, "Herculean Labours: Johannes Martini and the Manuscript Modena, Biblioteca Estense MS α M.1.13", Early Music History, vol. 33, 2014, pp. 183-257.
THE MANUSCRIPT: Contents:
Folio Information and Variants: ff. 40v-55r ff. 94v-104r ff. 117v-129r
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