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Choirbook 10

SHELF MARK Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 10
SHORT TITLE Antonio Lotti: 2 Magnificat breves

DESCRIPTION

IDENTIFIER DOI: 10.14277/unive/vmo/soundstmark/2017/choirbook10
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION 8 sheets
In-plano. Maximum sheet size (mm): 683 (height) x 480 (width)

Folios/pages unnumbered

Before restoration in 2015, the manuscript comprised 7 sheets, of which the first two were glued together to form one thicker sheet.
BINDING The choirbook is bound between two paperboard and parchment covers (both with lacunae, in particular on the back cover and spine). Strips of paper used as reinforcements were partly removed when the manuscript was disassembled during restoration in 2015. Original endpapers glued to the front and back covers.
MATERIAL Paper: 2 types

Type 1 (front endpaper, sheet 1 and back endpaper):
Chain line width (mm): 33
Watermark 1a (centre of half-sheet): Trefoil with letters ‘b’ ‘V’
Watermark 1b (centre of half-sheet): Bird

Type 2 (sheets 2-8):
Chain line width (mm): 32
Watermark 2 (centre of half-sheet): Flag with pole
DATING Before 1736
1720?
COPYIST(S) Anonymous 5


Choirbook 9 was copied by the same anonymous copyist.
NOTES Two labels, attached to the front cover (exterior) and the endpaper glued to the front cover, are numbered ‘8’ and ‘3’ respectively. Both presumably stem from earlier numberings of the choirbooks.

The watermarks show that the flyleaves (and probably the binding) were realized in or after 1736.

An earlier version of the title-page, subsequently erased, reads: ‘Magnificat / A[ntonio] L[otti]’.
LITERATURE Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Dubowy: Bemerkungen
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1926

CONTENT

Choirbook 10_01

TITLE IN SOURCE [Recto of first sheet:]
‘MAGNIFICAT / DUO BREVES / ANTONII LOTTI / OLIM ORGANISTAE, / QUI / ANNO M.D.CC.XXXVI: / DIE 2DA APRILIS / CAPELLAE MAGISTER / Electus est / DIU VIVAT.’
INCIPIT Et exultavit spiritus meus
COMPOSER Lotti, Antonio
DESCRIPTION Et exultavit spiritus meus (sheets 2v-3r)
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est (sheets 2v-3r)
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo (sheets 3v-4r)
Esurientes implevit bonis (sheets 3v-4r)
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros (sheets 4v-5r)
Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper (sheets 4v-5r)
SCORING 4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus
CLEFS C1, C3, C4, F4
LITURGICAL SOURCE Magnificat, verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (PD, fol. 86r-v)
LITURGICAL FEAST Liturgy of the Hours, Vespers
LITURGICAL GENRE Magnificat
LITURGICAL SOURCE Magnificat, verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (PD, fol. 86r-v)
TEXT 2
Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.

4
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius.

6
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo,
dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.

8
Esurientes implevit bonis
et divites dimisit inanes.

10
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
Abraham et semini eius in saecula.

12
Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper
et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen.
TRANSCRIPTION
LITERATURE Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Dubowy: Bemerkungen
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1926

Choirbook 10_02

INCIPIT Et exultavit spiritus meus
COMPOSER Lotti, Antonio
DESCRIPTION Et exultavit spiritus meus (sheets 5v-6r)
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est (sheets 5v-6r)
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo (sheets 6v-7r)
Esurientes implevit bonis (sheets 6v-7r)
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros (sheets 7v-8r)
Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper (sheets 7v-8r)
SCORING 4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus
CLEFS C1, C3, C4, F4
LITURGICAL SOURCE Magnificat, verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (PD, fol. 86r-v)
LITURGICAL FEAST Liturgy of the Hours, Vespers
LITURGICAL GENRE Magnificat
LITURGICAL SOURCE Magnificat, verses 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (PD, fol. 86r-v)
TEXT 2
Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo.

4
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius.

6
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo,
dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.

8
Esurientes implevit bonis
et divites dimisit inanes.

10
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
Abraham et semini eius in saecula.

12
Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper
et in saecula saeculorum.
Amen.
TRANSCRIPTION
LITERATURE Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Dubowy: Bemerkungen
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1926


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