Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 171

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18172

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 171

Title:

Ballate

Ballads

Author:

Paolo, da Firenze, approximately 1355-

Paolo da Firenze WIKIDATA

Place:

Tuscany

Tuscany TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian words

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment ; 18 cm.

Note:

Four-leaf fragment from a 15th-century song book, probably Tuscan in origin, containing music for five ballads for two and three tenor and countertenor voices, with accompanying text in Italian.
Six five-line staves in red with square notation in black; text in black.
Folds and stitching holes in outer margins suggest that the pages were used to reinforce another binding.
For a detailed description of this manuscript, see: Paolo Tenorista in a new fragment of the Italian Ars Nova ; a facsimile edition of an early fifteenth-century manuscript in the library of Professor Edward E. Lowinsky, Berkeley, California, with an introduction by Nino Pirrotta. Palm Springs : Ernest E. Gottlieb, 1961.
Accompanied by photographs of the manuscript, two autograph letters signed from Nino Pirrotta to Professor Lowinsky, and other materials in typescript form dealing with the manuscript.

Keyword:

Ballads, Italian

Italy--Tuscany

Early works

Love songs

Part songs, Italian

Manuscripts, Italian

Music

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma99248578805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPB5CND

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library