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Medieval Music Database

Aosta, Biblioteca del Seminario Maggiore 9-E-17

A 14th-century codex of troped Office and Proper settings, Christmas songs etc. in square notation. There are 6 polyphonic Benedicamus dominos listed in RISM, 4 of which are identical in I-AO19 below.

INVENTORIES


  1. VAN, Guillaume de. 'A recently discovered source of early 15th century music,the Aosta manuscript', Musica Disciplina, II (1948): 5-74.

  2. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Neue Quellen zur Musik des 13., 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts', Acta Musicologica, XXXVI (1964): 79-97 (pp. 87-90).

  3. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 3, 4. Handschriften mit mehrstimmiger Musik des 14., 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols, edited by Kurt von Fischer and Max Lütolf, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1972, pp. 735-737.

  4. COBIN, M. W. The Aosta Manuscript: A Central Source of Early Fifteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony, Ph.D. thesis, New York University: 1978.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 64-64v, Ad cantus leticie nos invitat hodie (Benedicamus Domino))

  2. fol. 65-65v, Laudemus cum ermonia summi patris (Benedicamus Domino))

  3. fol. 67-67v, Ursus, pater eximius (Benedicamus Domino))

  4. fol. 68, Benedicamus Domino (Benedicamus Domino))

  5. fol. 68v-69, Voce digna, corde pio (Benedicamus Domino))

  6. fol. 84-85, Angelorum glorie incarnantur hodie (Benedicamus Domino))


LITERATURE


  1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Neue Quellen zum einstimmigen Ordinariumszyklus des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts aus Italien', Liber Musicorum Charles van den Borren, Antwerp: Lloyd Anversois, 1964, pp. 60-68 (p. 65ff).

  2. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BV 1. Tropen- und Sequenzenhandschriften, edited by Heinrich Husmann, Munich-Duisburg: G. Henle-Verlag, 1964, p. 166.

  3. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Organal and chordal style in Renaissance sacred music: new and little-known sources', Aspects of Mediaeval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, New York: W. W. Norton, 1966, p. 173ff (p. 179ff).

CONCORDANCES

1.Aosta, Biblioteca del Seminario Maggiore 9-E-19 (D 16) (78-78v, Ad cantus leticie nos invitat hodie; 79-79v, Laudemus cum ermonia summi patris; 81, Benedicamus Domino; 81v, Voce digna, corde pio).
2.Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale LVI (242v-243, Ad cantus leticie nos invitat hodie)


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003