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Medieval Music Database

Barcelona, Biblioteca de L'Orfeó Català 2 (BarcB)

An early 15th-century parchment quaternio
containing 4 mass movements in typical
14th-century French Ars nova notation. Folios 1
and 5v-8 have blank staves only. An Italian
provenance is suggested by the note `Johannis
Andree civis Bononiensis' on f.8v.

INVENTORIES


  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252 (p. 205).

  2. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. Commentary to Volume I, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956 (typescript), pp. 147-156.

  3. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, pp. 93-94.

  4. GÓMEZ MUNTANÉ, Maria Carmen. Polifonía da la corona de Aragón siglos XIV y XV, Ars Nova de la Corona de Aragón, Zaragoza: Institución "Fernando el Católico", 1993, p. 9-13.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1v-3, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona) (Gloria))

  2. fol. 3, Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  3. fol. 4, Credo (Pierre Taillandier))

  4. fol. 5, Kyrie, Summe clementissime (Johannes Graneti))


LITERATURE


  1. ANGLÉS, Higini. La Música espanola desde la edad media hasta nuestros dias: Catálogo de la Exposición histórica, Barcelona, 1941, p. 26.

  2. HARDER, Hanna and Bruno STÄBLEIN. 'Neue Fragmente mehrstimmiger Musik aus spanischen Bibliotheken', Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 60. Geburtstag, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1957, pp. 131-141 (pp. 133, 140-141).

  3. Fourteenth-Century Mass Music in France, critical edition of the text by Hanna Stäblein-Harder, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1962. Musicological Studies and Documents 7, pp. 30-31, 39-41, 77, 62-63.

  4. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Musique et musiciens dans les chapelles de la maison royale d'Aragon (1336-1413)', Musica Disciplina, XXXVIII (1984): 67-86 (p. 77ff).

CONCORDANCES

1.Apt, Cathédrale Sainte-Anne, Bibliothèque du Chapitre, 16bis (22-23v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); 24, Kyrie, Summe clementissime; 36v-37v, Credo).
2.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, BM 853b (2v-3v, Credo; 12, Kyrie, Summe clementissime).
3.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya 971 (olim 946) (1v-3v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona)).
4.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya 971 and Gerona, Archivo Capitular, frag. 33/1 (xxiv verso, Credo; xxiiii/v, Credo).
5.Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Carpeta 1474, frag. 17 (1, Kyrie, Summe clementissime).
6.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung, MS Latinus monacensis 14274 (olim Mus. 3232a; Clm 352c) (32v, Kyrie, Summe clementissime).
7.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 29775 (1r/v, Credo).
8.Munich, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 29775 (1r-v, Credo).
9.Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève 1257 (36v, Kyrie, Summe clementissime).
10.Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottoboniano latino 1969 (n3, Credo; IIr/v, Credo).
11.Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb. latino 1419 (93v, Kyrie, Summe clementissime).
12.Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22 (52v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); 56v, Credo; 56v/57v, Credo).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. Ars Nova S. XIV: Missa de Barcelona, Mùsica Profana: Harmonia Mundi HMF 10.033 (FRA): Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona);.
  2. Missa Tournai. Missa Barcelona: Harmonia Mundi IC 065-99-870: Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona);.


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