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A.339.b.

Record Id:
032-001947761
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001947761
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Reference (shelfmark):
A.339.b.
Title:

ORLANDE DE LASSUS, MICHELE VAROTTO AND OTHERS: (first) tenor parts of Magnificat settings; late 16th cent. Added in ink to the pages at the end of the printed tenor part of Orlande de Lassus, Magnificat Octo Tonorum, sex, quinque, et quatuor vocum (Noribergæ: In Officina Theodorici Gerlazeni, 1573). On f. iii, in a different hand of similar date, are written two quotations relating to music, the first apparently from a letter, headed ‘Ioannes Otto ad Ferdinandum regem Bohemiæ’ and beginning ‘Septem artes numerantur, quibus homines sapientes hunc honorem habuerunt, ut liberales appellarent’ and the second taken from ‘Iesus Syrach cap: 32’ (verses 5-8), beginning ‘Ne impedias Musicam, & ubi canitur, ne sermones fundas, aut importune disputes’. Purchased, 13 Mar. 1923.

ff. vi + 46. 151 x 200mm. Parchment binding on boards, quarter-bound in pigskin. The parchment is taken from a thirteenth-century two-column Bible manuscript; the front cover (f. i) contains part of Ezekiel chs. 8-9 and the back cover (f. vi) part of Jeremiah ch. 49. The leather is blind-stamped with a roll depicting medallions of ‘Martinus Lut[herus]’, ‘Iohannes Hu[ss]’, ‘Erasmus Rod[erodami]’ and ‘Philipus Mel[anchthon]’; the roll measures 192 x 18mm and is apparently that listed in K. Haebler, Rollen- und Plattenstempel des XVI. Jahrhunderts (Leipzig, 1928-9), vol. 2, p. 335 as being probably the work of the binder Erhard Pilgrum of Nuremberg.

Contents:—

1. ff. 32v-3. Orlande de Lassus: ‘Magnificat Octavi Toni Quinque Vocum Orlandi Ex Patrocinio’. Published in Patrocinium Musices, Pars 2 (Monachij: Apud Adamum Berg, 1587), ff. l3-n2.

2. ff. 33-4. ‘Magnifica[t] primi toni sex vocum, Om[nis] [e]n[im] homo: Ex Patrocinio’. Published in ibidem, ff. a4-e1.

3. ff. 34v-5. ‘Magnificat quarti toni sex vocum ex patricinio’. On the cantus firmus ‘Quando io lietasperai’. Published in ibidem, ff. h3-l2.

4. ff. 35v-6. ‘Magnificat Octo Tonorum Michäelis Varrotti Primi Toni’. This and nos. 5-11 probably published in Varotto’s Li otto Magnificat a cinque voci, a dui chori (Venezia: Antonio de Antoniis, 1580).

5. ff. 36v-7. ‘Magnificat Michäelis Varrotti a 5. Secundi Toni’.

6. f. 37. ‘Magnificat eiusdem a 5. Tertii Toni.’

7. f. 38. ‘Magnificat Michaelis Varrotti a 5. Quarti Toni.’ Title on f. 37v.

8. ff. 38v-9v. ‘Magnificat Michaelis Varrotti a 5. Quinti Toni.’

9. ff. 39v-40v. ‘Magnificat Michaelis Varrotti a 5. Sexti Toni.’

10. ff. 40v-1. ‘Magnificat Michaelis Varrotti a 5. Septimi Toni.’

11. ff. 41v-2v. ‘Magnificat Michäelis Varrotti a 5. Octaui Toni.’ Title on f. 41.

12. ff. 42v-3. Kyrie eleison and Gloria, without title. In another hand.

13. ff. 43v-5. ‘Magnif. 5 toni 8.[?] voc.’ The ‘Tenor I. Chori’ is on the verso of each opening and the ‘Tenor II. Chori’ on the following recto. The full text is not written out, and the music is partly deleted.

14. ff. 45v-6. Tenor part of a setting of the sequence for the Nativity, ‘Grates nunc omnes’. Preceded by part of another incomplete and deleted Magnificat.

Scope & Content:

Music: Tenor parts of Magnificats, Kyrie, Gloria, and sequence 'Grates nunc omnes': late 16th cent.: Lat.

includes:

  • f. iii Ioannes Otto, musician: Ferdinand I of Bohemia: Extract from a letter to Ferdinand, King of Bohemia from Ioannes Otto: late 16th cent.: Lat: Copy.
  • ff. i, vi Bible LATIN: Binding fragments from the books of Ezekiel and Jeremiah: 13th cent.: Lat.
  • ff. 32v-46 Orlando di Lasso, composer: Michael Varotto, composer: Tenor parts of settings of the Magnificat by Orlando di Lasso and Michael Varotto: late 16th cent.: Lat: Copies.

Collection Area:
Music Collections
Project / Collection:
Music Miscellaneous
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1560
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1503-1564,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110266433
Lasso, Orlando di, composer
Otto, Ioannes, musician
Varotto, Michael, composer