VatS 41: Città del Vaticano,Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Cappella Sistina 41.

OVERVIEW

Size: 550 x 415. ii + 186 + i + i paper folios with index on what is now f. 188; original roman numeral foliation in ink is on recto folios centre of right-hand margin with folios clxxxv-clxxxxiiii now missing; modern pencil foliation at centre bottom of recto folios starting with folio 2v; some foliation, attributions and titles no longer preserved due to sometimes extensive later trimming; the source is a composite of separate fascicles.

Scribe: Principal scribe: Johannes Orceau and 5 others

Place and Brief History: Copied in Rome for the Cappella Sistina choir.

Date:1482-1507 with the index added ca. 1509-1512.

Covers and Decoration: Brown leather over boards dating from the 18th century, with central diamond motif with decorative boarders, blind tooled and with brass studs, bosses and clasps. Watercolour miniatures in the calligraphic initials on ff. 38v, 39r and 73v- the beginning of the altus of Josquin's Missa La sol fa re mi (f. 39r) contains a man with turban surrounded by French coins and the inscription LESSE FAIRE AMI in a scroll held in the right hand; other than ff. 50v-54r and 181v-187r, all folios contain inked calligraphic initials usually for all voices and often with grotesques and floral tacery.

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. 45-46.

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

Folio information and variants:

ff. 129v-149v & 156v-184r (25 pages)

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