The Production and History of Valencia 835
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33Z_OP_C0022
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Fifteenth Century
- Publisher
- earlymusictheory.org
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://earlymusictheory.github.io/REF2021/Tinctoris/Articles/Johannes-Tinctoris-And-Music-Theory/Goursaud/#
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘The Production and History of Valencia 835’ is a substantial (27,000-word) study of the manuscript Universitat de València, Biblioteca Històrica, MS835, a principal source of the writings of one of the most prominent music theorists of the fifteenth century, Johannes Tinctoris (c.1430/35—1511). It forms chapter 8 of _Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Fifteenth Century: Essays and Studies_, ed. Christian Goursaud and Ronald Woodley, published on the free, open-access online scholarly resource <earlymusictheory.org> (submission links to a ‘frozen’ December 2020 version of this ongoing site).
The chapter presents new research and evidence for the likely commissioner of the manuscript, rooted in first-hand physical inspection in Valencia. It interrogates and develops Ronald Woodley’s theory that the manuscript was commissioned by Giovanni of Aragon and completed in Naples between the last few months of 1477 and the first few of 1478. Some weaknesses of this prevailing theory are also explored in detail, and the relative likelihood of other scenarios for the manuscript’s production are explored. This area of research is necessary because a firm dating of the manuscript allows greater confidence in considering it the earliest textual source for Tinctoris’s treatises.
Through analysis of the decoration of a large corpus of contemporary manuscripts, the article provides new evidence of Valencia 835’s decoration by the artists Nardo Rapicano and Matteo Felice. It is demonstrated how the scribe and artists amplify and elucidate the structure of Tinctoris’s texts through a hierarchy of decorated initial letters.
This article features more than 130 high-resolution, zoomable images and a searchable, sortable table of data concerning 93 separate contemporary manuscripts. These methods allow the presentation of more specific evidence in support of the conclusions than would be possible in print. The chapter concludes with the first account of the manuscript’s subsequent 500 years of history.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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