Harvard University, MS Mus 142

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11187

Shelfmark:

MS Mus 142

Title:

Musices practicabilis libellum

Author:

Gaffurius, Franchinus, 1451-1522

Franchinus Gaffurius WIKIDATA

Date:

1480.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

music

Physical Description:

Extent: 44] p. : music ; 18 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Paulus, de Graecus, active 15th century

Paulus de Graecus WIKIDATA

Linlithgow, Charles William Frederick Hope, Marquess of, 1912-1987

Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow WIKIDATA

Note:

Fair copy of an earlier and shorter version of Gaffurius' Practica musicae, Book 2 (Milan, 1496).
Title derived from dedication on p. [1].
Autograph, signed; written in black ink with captions in red and initials in red and brown.
13 polyphonic musical examples for tenor and cantus, possibly by Dunstable and Gaffurius, are written on 5-line staves in black ink with red dividing and ending lines.
Cropped at margins, with some loss of text.
Ownership inscription on p. [44]: "Liber p[resby]teri pauli de graecis lauden[sis] e[m]ptus, 1480"; previously owned by Charles William Frederick Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow.
Purchased with the George L. Lincoln, Susan A.E. Morse, and Duplicates funds, 1969.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Music theory

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097353400203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:51431374

Holding Institution:

Harvard University