Marchio Angeli’s Inventory (1720)
The Music Books of the Ducal Chapel of St. Mark's, Venice
| SHELF MARK | Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, Busta 91 (Cariche e impiegati di Cappella), Processo 208 (Musici), fols 150r–152v |
| SHORT TITLE | Marchio Angeli’s Inventory of the Music Books of the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s, Venice (1720) |
DESCRIPTION
| ORIGINAL TITLE | [fol. 150r:] ‘Inventario de libri musicali inservienti all’uso / della Cappella di S. Marco, che sono tenuti / in custodia dal Rev[eren]do P[adre] Marchio Angeli.’ [fol. 150r:] ‘Adi 25. set[tembr]e 1720.’ |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | 3 sheets In-4°, 288 x 201 mm ca. The three sheets are part of an unbound envelope with acts of the Procuratoria de Supra concerning the musicians of the Ducal Chapel. |
| BINDING | Unboud |
| MATERIAL |
Paper 1 Type: Chain line width (mm): 29 ca. Watermark 1 (corner of the half-sheet) : Trefoil with letter ‘A’ and ‘Z’ Watermark 2 (centre of half-sheet) : Five-petalled flower with stem and small ball Watermark 3 (centre of half-sheet) : Bird with inscription 'Bergamo' in simple frame |
| DATING | 25 September 1720 |
| COPYIST | Angeli, Marchio With addition of a later hand (Content 66) |
CONTENT
Content 01
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Graduali grandi in foglio — n. 5.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco’. |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of graduals for the mass |
| Physical Description | 5 volumes |
| Format | In-plano or in-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 02
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Altro Libro Grande con Messe / diverse, et incomincia / Repertorium. — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco’. |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection (‘Repertorium’) of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano or in-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry maybe refers to the collection of masses 'in carta papal' printed in Antwerpen, purchased on 22 April 1607: '1607. 22. April. […] essendosi rapresentata occasion di poi libri di messe stampati in Anversa uno di [carte] 270. di messi otto in carta papal di autori singolari, cioè Orlando Lassus, Cipriano de Rore, Tomas Crequillon, et Josquin, et l'altro di carta real di messi dieci di Clemens non papa, Tomas Crequillon et Orlando Lassus […]' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 139, sub data). |
Content 03
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] Responsoria Triduo Maioris Heb- / domadae chanenda Fol[io] G[rande]. – n. 1. |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco’. |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous Legrenzi, Giovanni? |
| Content | Collection of responsories for Holy Week |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry maybe refers to the collection of masses 'in carta papal' printed in Antwerpen, purchased on 22 April 1607: '1607. 22. April. […] essendosi rapresentata occasion di poi libri di messe stampati in Anversa uno di [carte] 270. di messi otto in carta papal di autori singolari, cioè Orlando Lassus, Cipriano de Rore, Tomas Crequillon, et Josquin, et l'altro di carta real di messi dieci di Clemens non papa, Tomas Crequillon et Orlando Lassus […]' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 139, sub data). |
Content 04
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Libri sei con messe otto di / Nadal Monferrato fù Ma- / estro di Capella, in fol[io] G[rande] — n. 6.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco’. |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | 8 masses |
| Physical Description | 6 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | 2 surviving choirbooks containing a total of 3 masses 4 further choirbooks containing 5 masses are missing |
| Commentary | On 31 January 1670 (1669 more veneto), Natale Monferrato received 100 ducats from the Procuratori de Supra for the dedication of a printed collection and a gift of three choirbooks with 4-voice music for the use of the Ducal Chapel. Two of these choirbooks contained one mass each and the other a Magnificat (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 156r: ‘tre grandi manuscritti di doi Messe, et un de Magnificat in musica à quattro voci per servitio della medesima Chiesa’). During his life, Monferrato published eight ‘a capella’ masses: six in his Missae ad usum cappellarum quattuor et quinque vocibus concinendae op. 13 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1677. RISM A/I: M 3047), and two in his Messe et Magnificat a quattro voci op. 19 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1681. RISM A/I: M 3051). Three published masses are transmitted in the two surviving choirbooks of the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s. The four lost volumes may have contained the other five published masses. On 10 March 1678, the Procuratoria de Supra authorized payment to the copyist for a choirbook ‘in square notation’ with two 4-voice masses by Monferrato (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 147, fol. 53v: ‘nel scriver in notte quadrate due Messa a quattro composte dal medesimo [= Monferrato] de carte sessantadoi’). This payment is related to a surviving choirbook (Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 6). On the same occasion, the Procuratoria approved payment for another choirbook (now missing) with two further masses by Monferrato (fols 53v-54r: ‘nel scrivere due altre Messe in note quadrate composte da detto Maestro [= Monferrato] de carte quarantadoi’). |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 5 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1678 |
| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Title | Missa octava (source) |
| Content | Missae quinque vocibus [= Missae ad usum cappellarum op. 13, Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1677, no. 6] |
| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 6 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1677 |
| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Title | Missa Tertia et Quarta (source) |
| Content | Missa Tertia [= Messe e Magnificat op. 19, Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1681, no. 1] Missa Quarta [= Missae ad usum cappellarum op. 13, no. 4] |
Content 05
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] con diversi / Magnificat del sud[det]to Monferrato. — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | Collection of Magnificats |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | On 31 January 1670 (1669 more veneto), Natale Monferrato received 100 ducats from the Procuratori de Supra for the dedication of a printed collection and a gift of three choirbooks with 4-voice music for the use of the Ducal Chapel. Two of these choirbooks contained a single mass and the other a Magnificat (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 156r: ‘tre grandi manuscritti di doi Messe, et un de Magnificat in musica à quattro voci per servitio della medesima Chiesa’). |
Content 06
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Messe in fol[io] G[rande] libri n° vndici / del Roetta — n. 11.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 11 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | 2 surviving choirbooks containing a total of 2 masses. 9 other choirbooks are missing. |
| Commentary | On 25 July 1660, Giovanni Rovetta received 25 ducats for the composition of a mass and four Magnificats, together with purchase of paper, copying and binding (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 78v: ‘per sodisfar l’opera, et la spesa di ligatura, e carte reali della Messa, et quatro Magnificat’). |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 11 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | Before 1671 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous (source) Rovetta, Giovanni (attributed) |
| Content | [Missa quatuor vocum] |
| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 18 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook (fragment) |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1682 / 1683 |
| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni (source) |
| Content | [Missa brevis] |
Content 07
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Messe in folio Grande libri due, et / altri due folio piccolo, tutti / del Legrenzi — n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Contents 8 and 9 Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Legrenzi, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | In his testament, dated 12 March 1689, Giovanni Legrenzi left a copy of his masses, motets and Magnificats to the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s. |
Content 08
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] dello stesso [= Legrenzi] / con diversi Magnificat — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Contents 7 and 9 Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Legrenzi, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of Magnificats |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | In his testament, dated 12 March 1689, Giovanni Legrenzi left a copy of his masses, motets and Magnificats to the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s. |
Content 09
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] dello stesso [= Legrenzi] / con diversi motetti — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Contents 7 and 8 Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Legrenzi, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | In his testament, dated 12 March 1689, Giovanni Legrenzi left a copy of his masses, motets and Magnificats to the Ducal Chapel of St Mark’s. |
Content 10
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Due libri con trè messe del / Sig[no]r Ant[oni]o Lot[t]I fol[io] G[rande] — n. 2.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Lotti, Antonio |
| Content | 3 masses |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | On 22 July 1698, the Procuratori de Supra granted Lotti 50 ducats for a book containing an ‘a capella’ mass for the Ducal Chapel (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 149, fols 86v-87r). |
Content 11
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Quattro libri fol[io] G[rande] con messe / quattro del Maestro Biffi — n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Biffi, Antonio |
| Content | 4 masses |
| Physical Description | 4 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | 1 choirbook containing a mass is preserved 3 other choirbooks are missing |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 7 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | In-plano |
| Dating | 1715 |
| Composer(s) | Biffi, Antonio |
| Title | Missa brevis (source) |
Content 12
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Altro libro senza Cartoni con / un Magnificat del sud[dett]o [= Biffi]’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Biffi, Antonio |
| Content | 1 Magnificat |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | The choirbook was unbound |
Content 13
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Messa una fol[io] G[rande] Monte / verde n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monteverdi, Claudio |
| Content | 1 mass |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to the choirbook ‘in carta reale’ copied by don Angelo Rigoni in the autumn of 1640: 'Che a don Angelo Rigoni crociffero sijno dati ducati 19, grossi 9, per sue mercedi di haver rescritto in musica in carta reale messe del maestro Monte Verde [c. 67v] et Palestrina et fattone carte 60 a Lire 2 la carta per servitio del coro della chiesa di San Marco │[De sì] 3 [de no] 0.' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 144, sub data). The missing choirbook may have contained the ‘a cappella’ mass published in Monteverdi’s Selva morale e spirituale(Venice: Bartolomeo Magni, 1641. RISM A/I: M 3446) or that of the posthumous Messa a quattro voci, et salmi[…] (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1650. RISM A/I: M 3447). |
Content 14
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Messe trè fol]io] G[rande] libri trè / del Maestro Cavalli — n. 3.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | 3 masses |
| Physical Description | 3 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | On 26 February 1671 (1670 more veneto), the Procurators of St Mark’s approved a payment in favour of the maestro di cappella Francesco Cavalli for the binding of a choirbook containing a 4-voice mass by Cavalli (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 165v: ‘in far religar un libro d’una messa à quatro del medesimo’). This payment was probably related to one of the three missing choirbooks. On 5 July 1671, the Procurators of St Mark’s approved a payment for the composition of a 5-voice mass by Cavalli (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 168r: ‘in carta da registrar una messa à cinque voci da lui composta’). The choirbook containing this mass was realized before spring 1675: cf. payment of 28 April 1675 ‘per saldo delle operazioni per l’addietro fatte nel scriver in notte quadrate la Messa a cinque’ (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 147, fol. 6v). On the same occasion, payment for a third choirbook containing another 4-voice mass by Cavalli was appoved (Ibid.: ‘per saldo delle operazioni per l’addietro fatte nel scriver in notte quadrate […] altra Messa a quattro’). |
Content 15
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Messe due fol[io] G[rande] libri due / del Maestro Partenio — n. 2.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Partenio, Giovanni Domenico |
| Content | 2 masses |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | One of the two lost masses by Partenio is presumably the Requiem transmitted in another manuscript of the Ducal Chapel (Venice, Basilica di San Marco, B.789). This was probably copied from the missing choirbook cited in Angeli’s inventory. |
Content 16
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Messa una fol[io] G[rande] libro uno di Carlo Grossi — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Grossi, Carlo |
| Content | 1 mass |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | On 1 October 1684, the Procuratori de Supra awarded Grossi a gold medallion worth fifty ducats for a ‘book in-folio of his musical compositions composed for the service of the [chapel]’ (‘un libro in foglio di sue composizioni musicali composte per servizio della medesima [cappella]’ (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 148, fol. 192r). |
Content 17
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Messa da Morto fol[io] G[rande] libro / uno del Chiozotto — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Content | 1 Requiem mass |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Preserved |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 1 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1683 / 1691 |
| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Title | Missa pro defunctis (source) |
Content 18
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Libro uno delle Turbe p[er] / li Passij [della] Settimana Santa / del Roetta — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Turbe for Passions of Holy Week |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Preserved |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 2 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript, in-plano |
| Dating | 1682 / 1686 |
| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni Asola, Giovanni Matteo |
| Title | Turbe delli Passij per la Domenica delle Palme, Martedì, et Venerdì (source) |
| Content | Giovanni Rovetta: Turbe per la Domenica delle Palme Giovanni Matteo Asola: Turbe per il Martedì Santo Giovanni Rovetta: Turbe per il Venerdì Santo |
Content 19
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Libri quattro due fol[io] G[rande], e / due piccoli con [molte?] / Messe del Palestina — n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, probably prints |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, probably prints |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | One of the volumes mentioned in the inventory could be the choirbook ‘in carta reale’ purchased on 2 September 1614 by Friar ‘Florian’ of the convent of San Salvador: 'acquisto per 39 lire da tal fra’ Florian del convento di San Salvador un nuovo manoscritto musicale rilegato in foglio reale contenente opere del Palestrina' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 141, c. 6v, sub data); 'Che siano pagate lire trentanove al pre da San Salvador per haver datto un libro a penna di canto per la chiesa di san Marco in foglio reale, et ligado, così consigliando il Maestro di Capella, et da Sue Signorie illustrissime veduto [de si] 2 [de no] 0' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, Giornale cassier, reg.8, 20 September 1614). 1) Missarum liber secundus. Rome: eredi di Valerio & Aloisio Dorico, 1567. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: P 660. 2) Missarum […] liber secundus. Rome: Nicolò Mutii, 1599. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: P 662. 3) Missarum […] liber secundus. Rome: Nicolò Mutii, 1600. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: P 663. 4) Missarum liber quintus. Rome: Francesco Coattino (Giacomo Berichia), 1590. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: P 670. 5) Missarum […] liber quintus. Rome: Hubert Naich, 1599. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: P 672. The small books, also missing, may have been printed partbooks or manuscripts in-4° format. In April 1614, the new chapel master Claudio Monteverdi requested the purchase of two printed choirbooks of masses by Palestrina (books 2 and 5). Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 141 (Terminazioni 1614–1620), fols 1v–2r (6 April 1614): ‘[…] con Gardano libraro [= Bartolomeo Magni] hanno concluso mercato del 2.° et 5.° libro delle messe del Palestina [= Palestrina] a 4, 5 et 6, del p[rim]o l[ibr]o di Franc[esc]o Soriano, delle messe a 6 et otto de Orlando Lasso, de Ger[ola]mo Lambardi a 4. Et del p[rim]o de Paulo Paisoti [= Paciotti] a 4 et 5, tutti legati in carta carton grosso et saldo con la bergamina di sopra azura […]’. One of the two missing choirbooks was repaired on 29 August 1671, by order of Francesco Cavalli (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 170v: ‘aggiustato in più lochi il libro delle Messe della Palestina’). |
Content 20
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 150v:] ‘Libro Grande in fol[io] stampato / delle [messe] di Fran[ces]co Soriano — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Soriano, Francesco |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry refers to a missing copy of Soriano’s Missarum liber primus, published in choirbook format in 1609 (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti. RISM A/I: S 3982). In April 1614, the new chapel master Claudio Monteverdi requested the purchase of a printed collection of masses by Francesco Soriano (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 141, fols 1v–2r, 6 April 1614): ‘[…] con Gardano libraro [= Bartolomeo Magni] hanno concluso mercato del 2.° et 5.° libro delle messe del Palestina [= Palestrina] a 4, 5 et 6, del p[rim]o l[ibr]o di Franc[esc]o Soriano, delle messe a 6 et otto de Orlando Lasso, de Ger[ola]mo Lambardi a 4. Et del p[rim]o de Paulo Paisoti [= Paciotti] a 4 et 5, tutti legati in carta carton grosso et saldo con la bergamina di sopra azura […]’. |
Content 21
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Librazzo Grande con diverse messe del Morales — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Morales, Cristóbal de |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, probably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a missing copy of an in-folio printed edition of Morales’s masses. Possible editions are: 1) Missarum liber primus. Rome: Valerio & Lodovico Dorico, 1544. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: M 3580. 2) Missarum liber primus. Lyon: Jacques Moderne, 1546. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: M 3581. 3) Missarum liber secundus. Rome: Valerio & Lodovico Dorico, 1544. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: M 3582. 4) Missarum liber secundus. Lyon: Jacques Moderne, 1551. 1 choirbook in-folio. RISM A/I: M 3583. Cf. Content 39 |
Content 22
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Motetti libri 14. folio picolo del Monferrato — n. 14.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 14 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, probably print |
| Status | Possible reference to a surviving printed source Other unidentified sources are missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably represents a conflation of several print collections containing motets by Monferrato. Monferrato published seven individual collections, of which six are preserved. Two of these are dedicated to Procurators of St Mark’s: 1) Motetti concertati a due e tre voci op. 3. Venice: Francesco Magni, 1655. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3037. Dedicated to Giacomo Cornaro, Procurator of St Mark’s. 2) Id. (reprint). Venice: Francesco Magni, 1660. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3038. 3) Motetti concertati a due e tre voci op. 18. Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1681. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3050. Dedicated to the Procurators of St Mark’s. A copy of this last edition is kept in the music collection of the Basilica of St Mark’s. On 31 Janurary 1670 (1669 more veneto), the Procurators of St Mark’s awarded Monferrato the sum of 120 ducats for ‘alcuni libri in stampa di sue composizioni’. The reference is probably to the Motetti concertati a due e tre voci, published in 1669 without opus number or dedication (Venice: Francesco Magni. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3043). Other possible editions: 1) Motetti a voce sola […] Libro primo op. 4. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1655. 2 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3041. Dedicated to Giovanni Domenico Biava, Governor of the Ospedale dei Mendicanti. 2) Motetti a voce sola […] Libro secondo op. 5. Venice: 1655-1666. Lost: presumably 2 partbooks. 3) Motetti a voce sola […] Libro terzo op. 6. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1655. 2 partbooks. RISM A/I: M 3042. |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, D.349 |
| Physical Description | 4 partbooks |
| Type of Source | Print (Venice: Giuseppe Sala) |
| Dating | 1681 |
| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Title | Mottetti a due e tre voci op. 18 |
| Content | 20 motets for 2–3 voices. Collection dedicated by Monferrato to the Procuratori de Supra. |
| References(s) | RISM A/I: M 3050 |
Content 23
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Una muda di motetti [di] Ziani — n. 5.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Ziani, Pietro Andrea |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 5 volumes |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry refers to a missing collection of motets by Ziani for 2–4 voices and basso continuo, probably one of three lost editions by this composer to be published between 1640 and 1660 (op. 3, 4 and 5). Ziani’s Sacrae laudes op. 6 (Venice: Francesco Magni, 1660. RISM A/I: Z 175) may be excluded insofar as it consists of eight partbooks. |
Content 24
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Motetti libri 4. del Roetta — n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 4 volumes |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a copy of a printed collection of motets by Rovetta for 2–3 voices. Possible editions are: 1) Motetti concertati a due e tre voci op. 5. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1639. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: R 2967. 2) Id. (reprint). Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1648. RISM A/I: R 2970. 3) Motetti concertati a due e tre voci […] Libro terzo op. 10. Venice: Alessandro Vincenti, 1647. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: R 2973. |
Content 25
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altri moteti libri 4 del Cavalli — n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 4 volumes |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to the four partbooks of a printed or manuscript collection of motets by Cavalli. No individual printed collection containing motets by Cavalli is known. Cf. Content 42 |
Content 26
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altri moteti libri 4 del Vinac- / ceze – n. 4.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Vinaccesi, Benedetto |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 4 volumes |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry presumably refers to a copy of Vinaccesi’s printed collection Motetti a due e tre voci (Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1714. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: V 1576). |
Content 27
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Messe libro uno folio Grande di Adriano Valaert — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ [fol. 151r:] ‘dà essere / religato’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Willaert, Adrian |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry refers to a missing choirbook perhaps containing one or more masses originally published in Willaert’s Liber quinque missarum (Venice: Francesco Marcolini, 1536. 4 partbooks. RISM A/I: W 1103). The annotation 'to be bound' or ‘re-bound’ seems to indicate that the choirbook was regularly in use, probably old. |
Content 28
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altro libro di messe fol[io] G[rande] di Vicenzo Pelegrini — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 1 – [fol. 150r:] ‘Nell’Armaro verso la corte di S. Marco.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Pellegrini, Vincenzo |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry presumably refers to a missing copy of Pellegrini’s Missarum liber primus (Venice: In Coenobio Sancti Spiritus, 1603 and 1604. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: P 1178 and 1179). |
Content 29
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Libro d’Introiti fol[io] G[rande] antico — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of introits |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | The missing choirbook was an ‘old’ source. |
Content 30
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Antifonarij in fol[io] G[rande] libri — n. 2.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of antiphons |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 31
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altro antifonario in fol[io] G[rande] / Imni, Magnificat, e moteti — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of hymns, Magnificats and motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Possible reference to a surviving source. |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 14 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | Before 1720? |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of 2 antiphons, 25 hymns, 1 Magnificat and 2 motets |
Content 32
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] Magnificat / diversi — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of Magnificats |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 33
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altri due libri del Chiozotto / in folio Grande con Imni, Moteti / e Magnificat — n. 2.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of hymns, Magnificats and motets |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 34
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] del Zarlino / con Salmi — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Zarlino, Gioseffo |
| Content | Collection of psalms |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 35
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Libro stampato di messe in / foglio ordinario [di] P[ierre] Manchi- / court — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Manchicourt, Pierre de |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a missing copy of Manchicourt’s Missa cum quatuor vocibis ad imitationem moduli Quo abijt dilectus tuus condita, published in 1556 (Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: M 275). |
Content 36
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] con Magni- / ficat del Hesdin – n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ – ‘Altro libro fol. G. con Magnificat del Herlin’ in Francesco Caffi, Storia della musica sacra nella già Cappella Ducale di S. Marco in Venezia (dal 1318 al 1797), ed. by Elvidio Surian, Florence: Olschki, 1987 (Studi di Musica Veneta, 10), p. 445, and Francesco Passadore, Franco Rossi, San Marco: Vitalità di una tradizione. Il fondo musicale e la Cappella dal Settecento ad oggi, 4 vols, Venice: Edizioni Fondazione Levi, 1994–1996: vol. 1 (1996), p. 669 – ‘Altro libro fol. G. con Magnificat del Herdin’ in Paolo A. Rismondo, Pietro Francesco Caletti Bruni detto il Cavalli: tappe per una biografia, s.l., s.d., 2009, p. 448 |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Hesdin, Nicolle des Celliers de |
| Content | Magnificat |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | The missing choirbook contained a Magnificat by Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin. It may be a copy of the work published in the Liber sextus XIII. Quinque ultimorum tonorum Magnificat continet (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant, 1534. 4 partbooks. RISM B/I: 1534/7) and also transmitted in MS D.27 of the Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo in Padua, copied ca. 1541–1550 by the maestro di cappella Giordano Passetto (ca. 1484–1557). |
Content 37
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Un libretto foglio ordinario / coperto di tavole con il Passio — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Passion for Holy Week |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 38
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro con Messe, e Magni- / ficat fol[io] G[rande] cartoni di tela / di Zuanne à Cruce — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of masses and Magnificats |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to the choirbook ‘in foglio reale’ copied by a certain ‘domina Ruosa quondam Stefano mariner’ in November 1613: 'Che della cassa della giesia siano datte lire quaranta a domina Ruosa quondam Stefano mariner per haver presentato in procuratoria alcune composition in musica de messe del quondam ms pre’ Zuanne Croce olim Maestro di capella in San Marco, scritto a mano in foglio reale, et ligato a sue spese in tavola. De sì 3 [de no] 0.' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 140, fol. 152, 27 November 1613). |
Content 39
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro di Messe fol[io] G[rande] / del Morales — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Morales, Cristóbal de |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a missing copy of an in-folio print of Morales’s masses. Possible editions are: 1) Missarum liber primus. Rome: Valerio & Lodovico Dorico, 1544. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: M 3580. 2) Missarum liber primus. Lyon: Jacques Moderne, 1546. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: M 3581. 3) Missarum liber secundus. Rome: Valerio & Lodovico Dorico, 1544. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: M 3582. 4) Missarum liber secundus. Lyon: Jacques Moderne, 1551. 1 choirbook. RISM A/I: M 3583. Cf. Content 21 |
Content 40
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro di Imnario fol[io] G[rande] / di diuersi autori — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of hymns |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This lost choirbook probably corresponds to the volume repaired on 5 July 1671 by order of Francesco Cavalli (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 168r: ‘rapezar quello degli Hinni’). |
Content 41
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro di Magnificat e / moteti del Roetta — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of Magnificats and motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Possible reference to a surviving source |
| Commentary | On 25 July 1660, Giovanni Rovetta received 25 ducats for having composed a mass and four Magnificats, together with purchase of paper, copying and binding (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 78v: ‘per sodisfar l’opera, et la spesa di ligatura, e carte reali della Messa, et quatro Magnificat’). On 26 February 1671 (1670 more veneto), the Procurators of St Mark’s approved a payment in favour of the maestro di cappella Francesco Cavalli for the binding of a choirbook containing Magnificats and motets (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 165v: ‘in far religar [...] altro libro delli Magnificat, et Mottetti’). This payment was perhaps related to the choirbook. |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 12 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript, in-plano |
| Dating | Before 1690 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous (source) Rovetta, Giovanni (attributed) |
| Title | Mottetti (source) |
| Content | 1 Magnificat (fragment) and 6 motets |
Content 42
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] con motetti / del Cavalli — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | Cf. Content 25 |
Content 43
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] G[rande] con Imni / del Cavalli’ [original version] // ‘[…] / [‘del Cavalli’ has been crossed out] R.’ [later correction] |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | Collection of hymns |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Preserved |
| Commentary | Payment for copying a choirbook containing hymns by Cavalli for the feasts of St John the Baptist and the Apparition of St Mark was authorized on 28 April 1675 (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 147, fol. 6v: ‘per saldo delle operazioni per l’addietro fatte nel scriver in notte quadrate […] due Hinni di San Giovanni Battista, et dell’Apparizion di San Marco’). |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 4 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1672 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous (source) Cavalli, Francesco (attributed) |
| Content | 2 hymns |
Content 44
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro Messa da Morto / fol[io] G[rande] del Cavalli — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | Requiem mass |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | Payment for copying a choirbook containing Cavalli’s 8-voice Requiem mass was authorized on 28 April 1675 (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 147, fol. 6v: ‘per saldo delle operazioni per l’addietro fatte nel scriver in notte quadrate […] Messa da Morto a otto’). |
Content 45
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Libro fol[io] ordinario con Imni / del Roeta – n. 1’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Content 46 and 47 Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of hymns |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 46
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro Magnificat fol[io] / ordinario — n. 1’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Content 45 and 47 Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Magnificat |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified |
| Status | Preserved |
| Commentary | On 25 July 1660, Giovanni Rovetta received 25 ducats for the composition of a mass and four Magnificats, together with purchase of paper, copying and binding (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 78v: ‘per sodisfar l’opera, et la spesa di ligatura, e carte reali della Messa, et quatro Magnificat’). |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 8 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1682 /1683 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous (source) Rovetta, Giovanni (attributed) |
| Content | 1 Magnificat |
Content 47
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 151v:] ‘Altro libro Motetti fol[io] ord[inario] / dello stesso [= Roeta] — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Content 45 and 46 Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 48
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Altro libro fol[io] ordinario con / Imni senza autor — n. 1’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of hymns |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 49
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libro in foglio Magnificat del / Monfferrato — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | Magnificat |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 50
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Altro libro con Salve Regine del Martinengo — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Martinengo, Giulio Cesare |
| Content | Collection of Salve Regina settings (Marian antiphons) |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 51
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Altro libro con Imni quaressi- / mali di Gio: della Croce — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of hymns for Lent |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 52
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Due Responsorij in fol[io] in Ber- / gamina — n. 2.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | 2 collections of responsories |
| Physical Description | 2 volumes, in parchment |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Status | Possible reference to two preserved sources |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 15 |
| Physical Description | 1 book, in-folio |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1683 / 1686 |
| Content | The book contains only liturgical texts, without music. It was copied by Giovanni Francesco de Sartis, copyist of the Ducal Chapel. |
| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 17 |
| Physical Description | 1 book, in-folio |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1683 / 1686 |
| Content |
The book contains only liturgical texts, without music. It was copied by Giovanni Francesco de Sartis, copyist of the Ducal Chapel. |
Content 53
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libro in fol[io] G[rande] con Messe / della Madona, et Imni / del Roetta — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of masses for the Blessed Virgin Mary and hymns |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 54
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Messa della Bataglia fol[io] / G[rande] del Todesco — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Content 55 Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous Todesco (Anonymous) |
| Content | Mass super La Bataille (or ‘della caccia’) |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Preserved |
| Commentary | On 27 February 1671 (1670 more veneto), the Procurators of St Mark’s approved payment of 34 lire and 17 soldi to the maestro di cappella Francesco Cavalli for purchase of paper, copying and binding a new choirbook containing the mass ‘della caccia’ (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 146, fol. 162v: ‘in sodisfatione della carta, ligatura, et copia della messa detta della caccia’). |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri musicali 3 |
| Physical Description | 1 choirbook |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1670 / 1671 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous (source) |
| Title | Missa feriae quintae sexagesimae |
| Content | Mass on Janequin’s chanson La Guerre |
Content 55
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libro con motetti dello / stesso fol[io] Gr[ande] — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bracketed with Content 54 Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous Todesco (Anonymous) Janequin, Clément ? |
| Content | Collection of motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | According to Angeli’s inventory, the entries nos 54 and 55 contain music by the same author indicated as ‘Todesco’ (‘the German’). The attribution to Clément Janequin is advanced on the basis of Inventory no. 54. A lost collection of motets by Janequin was published by Pierre Attaingnant in Paris in 1533 (see Carl F. Becker, Die Tonwerke des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts oder systematisch-chronologische Zusammenstellung der in diesen zwei Jahrhunderten gedruckten Musikalien, Leipzig: Ernst Fleischer, 1855, col. 23). |
Content 56
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libri in foglio n. 6 Messe / de fra’ Pietro Colombina / carmelitano — n. 6.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Colombina, Pietro |
| Content | 6 masses |
| Physical Description | 6 volumes |
| Format | In-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | On 25 January 1682 (1681 more veneto), the Procuratori de Supra awarded Pietro Colombina a gold medallion for having donated ‘some books of his musical compositions’ to the Ducal Chapel (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 148, fol. 130r-v). According to Francesco Caffi, Storia della musica sacra nella già Cappella Ducale di S. Marco in Venezia (dal 1318 al 1797), ed. by Elvidio Surian, Florence: Olschki, 1987 (Studi di Musica Veneta, 10), p. 446, and Francesco Passadore, Franco Rossi, San Marco: Vitalità di una tradizione. Il fondo musicale e la Cappella dal Settecento ad oggi, 4 vols, Venice: Edizioni Fondazione Levi, 1994–1996: vol. 1 (1996), p. 669: 'Libri in foglio N. 6 Messe di P. Pietro Tombina'. |
Content 57
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libretto piccolo con motetti / della Madonna del Cavalli — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Cavalli, Francesco |
| Content | Collection of Marian motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified |
| Status | Missing |
Content 58
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libretto piccolo con moteti / del Monferrato — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | Collection of Marian motets |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry may refer to a missing copy of Monferrato’s Antiphonae unica voce decantandae op. 17 (Venice: Giuseppe Sala, 1678. RISM A/I: M 3049). |
Content 59
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libretto di Messe stam- / pato di diversi maestri — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Collection of masses |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry maybe refers to the collection of masses ‘in carta real’ printer in Antwerpen, purchased on 22 April 1607: '1607. 22. April. […] essendosi rapresentata occasion di doi libri di messe stampati in Anversa uno di [carte] 270. di messi otto in carta papal di autori singolari, cioè Orlando Lassus, Cipriano de Rore, Tomas Crequillon, et Josquin, et l'altro di carta real di messi dieci di Clemens non papa, Tomas Crequillon et Orlando Lassus […]' (Venice, Archivio di Stato, Procuratoria de Supra, Chiesa, reg. 139, sub data). |
Content 60
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152r:] ‘Libro di Passio piccolo – n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Passion of Holy Week |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
Content 61
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Libro di Salmi del Zarlino — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Zarlino, Gioseffo |
| Content | Collection of psalms |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-folio or in-plano |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
Content 62
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Libro di canto fermo, cioè / off[ici]o dell’Angelo Custode — n. 1.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Content | Office of the Guardian Angel |
| Physical Description | 1 volume |
| Format | Unidentified, presumably in-folio |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Possible reference to a surviving source |
| Commentary | This choirbook contained plainchant only |
SURVIVING SOURCE(S) |
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| Shelfmark | Venice, Basilica di San Marco, Libri liturgici E.2 |
| Physical Description | 1 book |
| Type of Source | Manuscript |
| Dating | 1711 |
| Composer(s) | Anonymous |
| Title | Collectio vesperarum et missarum ad usum Chori Ducalis Venetiarum (source) |
| Content | This collection contained 108 liturgical texts in plainchant: there are 7 antiphons for the Office of the Guardian Angels (cf. Francesco Passadore, Franco Rossi, San Marco: Vitalità di una tradizione. Il fondo musicale e la Cappella dal Settecento ad oggi, 4 vols, Venice: Edizioni Fondazione Levi, 1994–1996, cat. no. 1918a, compositions nos. 49–55). |
Content 63
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Libretti di salmi del Roetta / numero nove — n. 9.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Rovetta, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of psalms |
| Physical Description | 9 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a missing copy of Rovetta’s Delli Salmi a otto voci accommodate da cantarsi alla breve secondo l’uso della Serenissima Capella Ducale di S. Marco op. 12 (Venice: Francesco Magni, 1662. RISM A/I: R 2980). The edition consists in 9 partbooks. |
Content 64
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Monferrato libretti di salmi — n. 9.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Monferrato, Natale |
| Content | Collection of psalms |
| Physical Description | 9 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to a missing copy of Monferrato’s Salmi brevi a otto voci a due chori op. 9 (Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1675. RISM A/I: M 3045). The edition consists in 9 partbooks. |
Content 65
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Chiozotto libretti con salmi — n. 9.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Croce, Giovanni |
| Content | Collection of psalms |
| Physical Description | 9 volumes |
| Format | In-4° |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably print |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | This entry probably refers to missing copies of Croce’s Vespertina omnium solemnitatum psalmodia octonis vocibus decantanda (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti, 1597. RISM A/I: C 4449) and Basso per sonare nell’organo delli vesperi a otto voci (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti, 1603. RISM A/I: C 4450). The two editions together comprise 9 partbooks. |
Content 66
ORIGINAL SOURCE |
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| Transcription | [fol. 152v:] ‘Messa a 4 voci del s[igno]r Ant[oni]o Pollaroli V[ice] Maestro.’ |
| Note(s) | Bookcase 2 – [fol. 151v:] ‘Nell’Armaro dalla parte della / Canonica.’ |
IDENTIFICATION |
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| Composer(s) | Pollarolo, Antonio |
| Content | Mass |
| Physical Description | Unidentified |
| Format | Unidentified |
| Type of Source | Unidentified, presumably manuscript |
| Status | Missing |
| Commentary | The entry was added to the inventory after 1720 by a copyist other than Marchio Angeli. Pollarolo was vice chapel master in St Mark’s from 1723 to 1740. |
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