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Choirbook

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Brussel/Bruxelles, Archief O.C.M.W. Brussel / Archives C.P.A.S. de Bruxelles, H 1135

Godfried Croenen, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Choirbook
Shelfmarks Brussel/Bruxelles, Archief O.C.M.W. Brussel / Archives C.P.A.S. de Bruxelles, H 1135
Page/Folio Reference covers
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southern Low Countries
Date of Origin 1499-1536
Persons Petrus Alamire
Script, Hands

The manuscript was produced in the workshop of Petrus Alamire. The text is copied in cursiva libraria. Northern and southern gothica textualis formata are both used as display script for the incipits and rubrics.
General Remarks

Another fragment of the same manuscript, which originally followed this leaf, has been preserved in the archives of the St Gudula cathedral of Brussels, Archives de l'Etat à Bruxelles, Archives of the St Gudula, 9424 (see Vanhulst 2014, p. 9). 

Original Condition

Page Height 438 mm
Page Width 320 – 321 mm
Height of Written Area 340 mm
Width of Written Area 250 mm
Number of Columns 1
Ruling Leadpoint ruling
More about the Condition

The two fragments together represent a single leaf from which the measurements can be taken.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 220 x 320 mm; 218 x 321 mm
More about the Current Condition

The two fragments together represent a single leaf. They have been folded for about 10 mm along the horizontal cut that divided the original leaf to make it easier to sew the leaves onto the leather bands.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Complex cadels mark the start of the text or the indication of the parts.
  • Musical Notation

    Mensural notation on staves of four black lines. Use of accidentals (flat and natural) and custodes.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Persons Pierre de La Rue
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Ave sanctissima Maria (motet)
      • Content Description

        Only the part of Contratenor 2 and the beginning of the part of Bassus 2 are preserved.
      • fol. [1]r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Te decet laus (motet)
      • Content Description

        Only the part of the Discantus and the beginning of the part of Tenor (1) are preserved.
      • fol. [1]v

    Host Volume

    Title Annual accounts of the stewart of the hospice of the Holy Cross in Brussels, between 1592 and 1612
    Date of Origin/Publication 1592-1612
    Place of Origin/Publication Brussels
    Page/Folio Reference: front and back cover
    Remarks

    Each account consists of a large paper quire (in one case two quires). After 1612 these 13 quires were sewn onto two leather band. The two fragments were also sewn onto these bands to form a limp binding covering the resulting codex. 

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