VatS 36: Città del Vaticano,Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Cappella Sistina 36.

OVERVIEW

Size: 595 x 405 mm. ii + 95 + i parchment folios, modern stamped foliation, no index.

Scribe: several hands from the Alamire workshop.

Place and Brief History: Brussels/Mechelen. Prepared for and sent to Pope Leo X (1513-1521); possibly presented in person by Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands.

Date: 1516-1518.

Covers and Decoration: 18th-century restored covers of brown leather over boards, brass studs bosses and clasps with blind-tooled central diamond motif and decorative boarders; painted and inked calligraphic initials; missing folios probably contained miniatures etc.; in particular, source retains the following decorations:

f. 34v: painted K with borders consisting of flower, insect and bird motifs across top and down left-hand side

f. 35r: similar borders across top and down right-hand side

f. 50v: elaborate stylized K similar to JenaU 5 (f. 44v)

f. 51r: coat of arms of Margaret of Austria

f. 66v: coat of arms of Pope Leo X - the Medici arms with apostolic keys

f. 80v: stylized K containing miniature of a catafalque with cloth and a candle in a candleholder on each side (similar to JenaU 5, f. 73v).

Literature:

Herbert Kellman (ed.), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. IV, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 42-43.

Flynn Warmington, "Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana MS Cappella Sistina 36", 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. 134.

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

2v-5r	Petrus de rue	[Credo] Lamour du moy.
6r-14r	[Petrus de la rue]	Missa Ave sanctissima maria [incomplete]
14v-15r	[Petrus de la rue?]	Loco deo gracias (Te decet laus)
16r-33r	[Petrus de la rue]	Missa de septem doloribus
34v-50r	[Petrus de la rue]	Missa Alleluya
50v-65r	PETRVS DE LA RUE	Missa O gloriosa margaretha
66v-79r	Petrus de rue.	Missa de virginibus
80v-90r	[Petrus de la rue]	Missa pro fidelibus defunctis.
90v-96r	petrus de la rue.	Patrem sex vocum

Folio information and variants:

ff. 50v-80r & 90v-96v (18 pages)

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