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MontsM 773

MontsM 773: Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monestir MS 773.

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Size: 565 x 390 now extant 131 parchment folios, no index, modern pencil foliation.

Scribe: several Hands from the Alamire workshop.

Place and Brief History: Brussels/Mechelen; possibly a gift from Emperor Maximilian I to his daughter Margaret of Austria before being inherited by her niece Mary of Hungary in 1530 and subsequently inherited by Philip II of Spain (great grandson of Maximilian) as indicated in the 1602 inventory of Philip's manuscripts; in 1620 was bought by the Real Convento de las Señoras de la Encarnaçion in Madrid and subsequently acquired by the Benedictine monastery at Montserrat during the 1920s.

Date: 1508 to perhaps as late as 1534; possible completion no later than 1516.

Covers and Decoration: Dark brown leather over wooden boards with lozenge design, brass corners and buckles; severely mutilated with most art work and boarders excised; only six painted initials remain: ff. 15r (C of Contra.), 46r (C of Contra and B of Bassus), 62r (most of C of Contra) and 86r (C of Contra and B of Bassus); most inked calligraphic initials remain other than on the 26 folios almost completely removed.

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, p. 182; also vol. IV (1988), p. 442.

Herbert Kellman, "Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monetsir MS 773", in Herbert Kellman (ed.), The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Arts in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535, The University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 115.

 

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

1v-13r
[Pierre de La Rue]
[Missa de Sancta Anna]
14v-29r
de la rue.
[Missa] Inuiolata.
30v-44r
[Pierre de La Rue]
[Missa Ave maria]
45v-60r
[Missa O gloriosa mararetha]= Missa O gloriosa domina
61v-79r
[Petrus] de la rue.
[Missa de Sancta cruce]
79v-84r
Petrus de la rue.
[Missa O salutaris hostia]
85v-98r
[Pierre de La Rue]
[Missa de Sancto Job]
99v-115r
p. de la rue.
Missa quinque vocum .[Alleluya]
115v-130r
p. de la rue.
Missa de feria

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