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| New Facsimile Cancionero de Juana I de Castilla Burgundian Songbook, c.1511 Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I, iv 90 (superius partbook)  This lovely
Burgundian chansonnier, one of the smallest complete collections of the
time, created around 1511, consists of 56 pages of polyphonic music
with Latin, French and Flemish texts by leading Netherlandish
composers. Its 54 miniatures, made up of delightful little dramatic
scenes, botanical designs, or emblema in the style of the Ghent-Bruges
school of book illumination, have been linked to the atelier of
the prestigious artist Alexander Bening (father of Simon Bening).
The book lacks an heraldic device but this in no way rules out an
almost certain noble connection as its illuminations belong
to a group of books of hours that include the Hours of Joanna of
Castile (London, BL, add. 18852). Although the songbook was originally
comprised of 4 separate partbooks—superius, alto, tenor, bassus—the
bassus partbook is now lost, and the altus (=Bibl. Royal Albert I, ms.
iv 1274 ) and tenor (=Bibl. Tournai, ms. 94) are incomplete and less
well preserved. The surviving superius part, reproduced for this deluxe
facsimile edition, still has its early 16th-c. leather binding
decorated with animal figures and vines; it is the work of Lodovicus
Bloc, a master bookbinder active in Bruges 1484-1529, credited with
binding numerous books
for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Contents: 22 songs without
attributions; concordances allow us positive identification of most of
the composers—Compère (4), Josquin (4), Obrecht, Ockeghem, de la
Rue, Agricola, Barbireau, Busnois, Japart, Pipelare, Hayne van
Ghizighem (2), Ninot le Petit, and Isaac. The facsimile: in the original format—oblong, 11 x 9 cm—56 pp, with 54 miniatures highlighted with gold and silver. Commentary volume (359 pp) by Honey Meconi, University of Rochester; modern transcriptions by Miguel Ángel Picó and an essay on the making of a codex by José Aspas Romano; 1 audio CD. Limited edition of 999 copies with tooled leather binding that replicates the original; deluxe case. Euro 2,800. Please call for special OMI price   OMI - Old Manuscripts & Incunabula PO Box 6019 FDR Station New York NY 10150 tel/fax 212/ 758-1946 • http://www.omifacsimiles.com • immels@earthlink.net |
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