Codex Wroclaw

The Codex Breslau (Mf 2016) is a music manuscript created around 1510 . He comes from a Bohemian monastery and came to the University of Wroclaw in 1812 in the course of secularization . Today it is kept in Warsaw .

The codex contains 9 masses and mass parts, 6 magnificence movements , 15 hymns , 3 lamentations , 45 motets , 3 secular pieces and 11 pieces without text. Aulen , Flordigal Uldaric , Bartholomeus Anglicus and Heinrich Isaac are named as composers , but no author is given for numerous movements. Additional composers Adam von Fulda , Alexander Agricola , Josquin Desprez , Loyset Compère , Johannes Ockeghem and Gaspar van Weerbeke can be identified through concordances , but several pieces remained anonymous.

literature

• Fritz Feldmann: Missa Anonyma II. From Codex Breslau Mf. 2016 . In: Friedrich Blume , Kurt Gudewill : Das Chorwerk , issue 56. Möseler Verlag Wolfenbüttel.
• Gerhard Dietel: Music history in data . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1994. p. 144.

Web links

• Lothar Hoffmann inheritance law: Wrocław . In: Oxford Music Online