Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Madrigale e canzoni

Authors

• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
• Cenci, Giuseppino

Call number

Ms. Codex 297
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580915
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580915

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1625

Place

Italy

Summary

Musical settings of Italian texts with eight 5-line staves to a page and roughly diamond-shaped note heads. Fourteen compositions for solo voice with unfigured bass and seven duets, likewise with continuo accompaniment. Five of the solo-voice works set madrigal texts. One item is a setting of a poem from Petrarch's Canzoniere (or, Rime). Three or possibly four of the songs are compositions of Giuseppino Cenci.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• The individual songs do not have titles in the text. Incipit of each song is marked by a large capital letter in the left margin.
   
• Fragile. Cover stained, worn and split. Book block only loosely sewn to cover. Pastedowns mostly missing. Quires loose. Some leaves splitting at the binding and coming loose. Some oxidation of ink. Various stains and smudges; large smudge on f. 20r.
   
• Complete photocopy shelved with the manuscript.
   
• The following are on file in the Library: list of incipits; notes by Thomas Bridges, University of Pennsylvania Music Department (November, 1968); an analysis of the foliation and watermarks by Eugene K. Wolf, University of Pennsylvania Music Department; description by John Walter Hill, whose book includes transcriptions of these works.
   

Extent

28 leaves : 235 x 170 mm. bound to 243 x 176 mm

Collation

Paper, 28; 1⁸, 2⁴, 3⁴, 4⁸, 5⁴; 1-28; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Script

Written in a semi-calligraphic cursive script by at least three different hands.

Provenance

• Accessioned, 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Music--Italy--17th century
• Songs, Italian--17th century
• Vocal duets with continuo

Genres

• Codices
• Scores
• Songs
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ah fuggit? fuggit? voi prendet? ... [incomplete], f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Donna per acquetar vostro desire ..., f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Care lagrime mie messi dolenti ..., f. 2v
• fol. 3v — Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra, f. 3v
• fol. 6v — Pargoletta vezzosa e ridente ..., f. 6v
• fol. 7v — M?a qual hora vezzosetta ..., f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Se non hai di ferro il cuore ..., f. 8v
• fol. 9v — Ahi com?a un vago sol cortese giro ..., f. 9v
• fol. 11r — Crud? Amarilli che col nom ancora ..., f. 11r
• fol. 12v — Vorrei bacciarti, O Filli ..., f. 12v
• fol. 13v — Ecco che pur al fine ... , f. 13v
• fol. 14v — Amarilli crudel, e ria ..., f. 14v
• fol. 16r — Tempo ben fu, Donna, ch?amai ..., f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Vita della mia vita ..., f. 16v
• fol. 18r — Vaga e lucente nell?oriente ... f. 18r
• fol. 20v — O leggiadri occhi belli ..., f. 20v
• fol. 21v — Ecco Lidia mia bella ..., f. 21v
• fol. 22v — Leggiadri occhi sereni ..., f. 22v
• fol. 24v — Questa piaga mi sia sempre in core ..., f. 24v
• fol. 25v — Piu non amo, piu non ardo ..., f. 25v
• fol. 26v — Dhe girate, Luci amate, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — La mia Filli crudel spesso mi fugge ... f. 27r