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Stresa, Biblioteca Rosminiana 14 (olim Domodossola)

2 uncut folios from a large and sumptuously illuminated unknown ms. of the early 15thC, used as front and back flyleaves of this 15thC Paduan text ms. Probably 3 of the 5 pieces are by Ciconia. Copyist Rolandus da Casale.

INVENTORIES


  1. 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. 1039-1041.

  2. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, 5 vols, Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988. Renaissance Manuscript Studies 1, Vol. III, p. 166.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Amor m'a tolto (Jacobus Corbus de Padua))

  2. fol. 1v, Ben che da vui (Johannes Ciconia))

  3. fol. 2, Se le lagrime antique (Zaninus de Peraga))

  4. fol. 2v\1, Io crido amor (Johannes Ciconia))

  5. fol. 2v\2, Amor per ti sempre (Johannes Ciconia?))


LITERATURE


  1. SABBADINI, Remiglio. 'Frammenti di poesie volgari musicate', Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, XL (1902): 270-272.

  2. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252 (p. 230).

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 'Italian Ars nova music, the Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca Codex, and other unpublished early fifteenth century sources', Musica Disciplina, I/3 (1946): 173-191, and supplement with musical examples in I/4 (1947).

  4. PLAMENAC, Dragan. 'Another Paduan fragment of Trecento music', Journal of the American Musicological Society, VIII (1955): 165-181.

  5. 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. 44, 60-61, 80, 102, 103.