Liber primus ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, vulgo moteta vocant, tam ex veteri quam ex nouo testamento, ab optimis quibusque huius aetatis musicis compositarum.

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Collection of motets in four parts.

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Standardised TitleLiber primus ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, vulgo moteta vocant, tam ex veteri quam ex nouo testamento, ab optimis quibusque huius aetatis musicis compositarum.
Transcribed TitleLIBER PRIMVS / ECCLESIASTICARVM / cantionum quatuor vocum / Vulgo Moteta vocant, tam ex Veteri quam ex Nouo / TESTAMENTO, AB OPTIMIS QVI- / busque huius aetatis Musicis compositarum. / ANTEA NVNQVAM EXCVSVS.
Date1553
ImprintANTVVERPIAE EXCVDE- / bat Tilemannus Susato e regione staterae nouae / Anno M. D. LIII.
FormatCopy at K.3.d.9. SVPERIOR (20 leaves); CONTRATENOR (20 leaves); TENOR (20 leaves); BASSVS (20 leaves); Superior, Contratenor, Bassus: [1] ii-xx Tenor: [1] ii-x [11] xij-xx; paper dimensions: 148 x 193 mm.
PlaceAntwerp, Belgium
SubjectMotets
LanguageLatin
TypePrinted music
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British Library K.3.d.9
Related Resource

U. Meissner, Der Antwerpener Notendrucker Tylman Susato (Berlin: Verlag Merseburger, 1967), pp.85-87.

Harry B. Lincoln, The Latin Motet: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600 (Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 1993).

John Milsom, ‘The Nonsuch Music Library’, in Chris Banks, Arthur Searle and Malcolm Turner (eds.), Sundry Sorts of Music Books: Essays on The British Library Collections, Presented to O. W. Neighbour on his 70th Birthday (London, 1993), 146-82, no. 5.

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RISM B/I, 15538

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With index at the front of all part books except the tenor.

With a dedication to D. Anthonio Perenoto, Bishop of Arras, in Latin in the tenor part book only.

Attribution for ’Tribulationes ciuitatem audiuimus’ is taken from Harry B. Lincoln, The Latin Motet: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600 (Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 1993), pp.761. 

Ute Meissner lists ’Nobilis illa inter septenas’ as the secunda pars of ’Timor & tremor venit in Niniuen’ (Der Antwerpener Notendrucker Tylman Susato (Berlin: Verlag Merseburger, 1967), pp.85-87). Although ’secunda pars’ is printed at the top of the page containing ’Nobilis illa inter septenas’, the index lists this as a separate motet. In the superior and bassus part books the score is given its own composer heading as if it were the begining of a new motet. Furthermore, ’Timor and tremor’ and ’Nobilis illa inter septenas’ use different clefs in all parts. Harry Lincoln separates these as two motets.

Copy at K.3.d.9. From the Lumley library.

Indexed names

Susato, Tielman, fl. 1529-1561, printer. 
Clemens non Papa, Jacobus, ca. 1510-ca. 1555, composer. 
Cleve, Johannes de, 1529-1582, composer. 
Colin, Pierre, fl. 1538-1565, composer. 
Crecquillon, Thomas, d. 1557?, composer. 
Guyot, Jean, 1512-1588, composer. 
Hollande, Jean de, fl. 1538-1553, composer. 
Perenoto, D. Anthonio, Bishop of Arras, dedicatee. 
Willaert, Adrian, 1490?-1562, composer. 
Arundel, Henry Fitz Alan, Earl of, 1512-1580, former owner. 
Lumley, John Lumley, Baron, 1534?-1609, former owner.

Table of Contents

Cognoscimus domine quia peccauimus tibi (secunda pars: Vita nostra in dolore suspirat) (headed: Confessio & oratio ad Deum) / Tho. Crecquillon -- Dixerunt discipuli ad beatum martinum (secunda pars: Sacerdos dei martine) / Cleue -- Angelus domini ad pastores ait (secunda pars: Paruulus filius hodie natus est) (headed: Luca Secundo) / Iaco. Clemens non Papa -- Memento creatoris tui / Colin -- Tristicia & anxietas (secunda pars: Sed tu domine qui non derelinquis) (headed: In anxietate) / Iaco. Clemens non Papa -- Gabriel angelus apparuit Zacharia (secunda pars: Hic praecursor & dilectus) (headed: De sancto Ioanne baptista) / Tho. Crecquillon -- Erraui sicut ouis que perijt (secunda pars: Delicta iuuentutis mee) (headed: Psalmus. C.xviij. Apropinquet; secunda pars headed: Psalmus xxiiii) / Iacobus Clemens non papa -- Tribulationes ciuitatem audiuimus (headed: Tempore angustiae) -- Exaudi domine orationem meam (secunda pars: Contristatus sum in cogitatione mea; tertia pars: Deduc me domine ad portu[m] salutis) (headed: Psalmus. Liiij) / Iaco. Clemens non Papa -- Voce mea ad dominum clamaui (secunda pars: Exurge domine saluum) / Ia. Clemens non papa -- Heu mihi domine quia peccaui nimis (secunda pars: Anima mea turbata est) (headed: Pro peccatis) / Ia. Clemens non papa -- Tristicia obsedit me (secunda pars: Quid igitur faciam) (headed: Tempore angustiae) / Iaco. Clemens non papa -- Zachee festinans descende (secunda pars: Domine deus omnipotens) / Tho. Crecquillon -- Timor & tremor venit in Niniuen (headed: Ione. iij. Capite) / Ia. Clemens non papa -- Nobilis illa inter septenas / Iacobus Clemens non Papa --Prudentes virgines acceperunt (secunda pars: Fatue autem sapientibus dixerunt) (In index, superius and contratenor (following rests): Date nobis de olco vestro) (headed: De virginibus. Mat. xxv) / Ioannes quiot, alias Castileti -- Qui sunt hij sermones (headed: Luce. xxiiij) / Ioannes de Hollande -- Pater peccaui in coelum (secunda pars: Quanti mercenarij in domo patris) (headed: Luce. XV. Capit.) / Adrianus Vuillart -- Angelus domini descendit de coelo (secunda pars: Angelus domini locutus est) (headed: Matthei. xxviij.cap.) -- O Lux & decus hispanie (secunda pars: O singluare praesidium) (headed: De Sancto Iacobe) / Iaco. Clemens no[n] papa -- Ambulans Iesus iuxta mare galilee (headed: Matthei quarto) -- Lapidaba[n]t Stephanu[m] inuocantem (secunda pars: Impetum fecerunt vnanimiter in eum) (headed: Actorum septimo) / Iaco. Clemens non Papa.

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