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Medieval Music Database

Pistoia, Archivium Capituli Pistoriensis B 3 5

2 bifolios from an Italian ms. containing French and Italian secular works c.1400. The fragment has not been shown to be directly related to other similar mss. such as Man. Original size estimated at c250 x 165.

INVENTORY

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. 1013-1016.

CONTENTS


  1. I, State a Dio fatti con Dio (ballata))

  2. II, A pianger l'ochi (Antonellus da Caserta))

  3. III, Vos estes celle qui n'a cure (rondeau))

  4. IIIv, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia (Francesco Landini))

  5. IIv, Avrai ge ja de ma dame confort (rondeau))

  6. IIv, Plus tost vorroie la mort (rondeau))

  7. IV, Se n'Antogn'ama 'l qual (ballata))

  8. IVv, Merce o morte (Johannes Ciconia?))

  9. Iv, Fortuna ria, Amor e crudel donna (Francesco Landini))


LITERATURE


  1. GHISI, Federico. 'Un frammento musicale della Ars nova italiana nell'Archivio capitolare della cattedrale di Pistoia', Rivista musicale italiana, XLII (1938): 162-168.

  2. GHISI, Federico. 'Italian Ars nova music, the Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca Codex, and other unpublished early fifteenth century sources', Musica Disciplina, I/3 (1946): 173-191, and supplement with musical examples in I/4 (1947).

  3. HAGOPIAN, Viola L. Italian Ars Nova Music. A Bibliographic Guide to Modern Editions and Related Literature, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1964, pp. 53-54, 53/n41 and n42, 106.

CONCORDANCES

1.Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 2216 (51, Merce o morte).
2.Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex) (133, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia; 147v, Fortuna ria, Amor e crudel donna).
3.Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiano VII 1041 (51v, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia).
4.Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26 (10, Fortuna ria, Amor e crudel donna; 27v-28\1, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia).
5.Lucca, Archivio di Stato 184 (Mancini Codex) (52v, Merce o morte; 67v-68, A pianger l'ochi).
6.Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria 1115 (Bv, A pianger l'ochi).
7.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568 (66v-67, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia; 86v, Fortuna ria, Amor e crudel donna).
8.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 4917 (18v-19, Merce o morte).
9.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex) (52v, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia).
10.Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigiano L.IV.131 (387v, Gentil aspetto in cu' la mente mia).
11.Sevilla, Biblioteca Capitulare Colombina 5.2.25 (48v-49, Fortuna ria, Amor e crudel donna).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420: Hyperion CDA66588: Avrai ge ja de ma dame confort;.
  2. Johannes Ciconia: Musique en Wallonie 80040-44 (set): Merce o morte;.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003