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| Record ID | cp012198 |
| Voet reference number | 1498 |
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| Author | Jacobus de KERLE |
| Title page transcription | Two title-pages have been used: [Engraved title-page; printed typographically within cut-out medallions:] □ QVATOR ‖ MISSAE ‖ SVAVISSIMIS MODV- ‖ LATIONIBVS REFERTÆ, ‖ QVARVM VNA QVATVOR, ‖ RELIQVÆ VERO QVINQVE ‖ VOCIBVS CONCINENDÆ. ‖ ADIVNCTO IN FINE Te Deum Laudamus. ‖ Auctore ‖ IACOBO DE KERLE FLANDRO ‖ IPRENSI, METROPOLITANÆ CA- ‖ MERACENSIS ECCLESIÆ ‖ CANONICO. ‡ ANTVERPIÆ, ‖ EX OFFICINA CHRISTOPHORI ‖ PLANTINI. ‖ M.D.LXXXIII. |
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| Pages | This engraved title-page used in other music-editions published by Plantin (cf. G. de la Hele, no. 1306). Reproduced in W. von zur Westen, Musiktitel aus vier Jahrhunderten, Festschrift anlässlich des 75 jährigen Bestehens der Firma C.G. Röder G.M.B.H., Leipzig, [1921], pl. 26, after a copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. However, in the actual copy in Bayerische Staatsbibliothek the title-page is missing |
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| Title page transcription | [Within cartouche of typographically printed fleurons:] QVATVOR MISSAE, [within woodcut:] SVAVISSIMIS MO- ‖ DVLATIONIBVS REFERTÆ ‖ QVARVM VNA QVA- ‖ TVOR, RELIQVAE VERO ‖ QVINQVE VOCIBVS ‖ CONCINENDA ‖ Adiuncto in fine Te Deum laudamus. ‖ AVCTORE ‖ Iacobo de Kerle Flandro, S. Cæs. Maiestatis ‖ Rudolphi 2 ‖ Sacellano. [underneath woodcut:] ANTVERPIÆ ‖ Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, M.D.LXXXIII. |
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| Pages | Title-page, with as central part a laurel-wrath in woodcut (reproduced in Stellfeld, plate XIV). Folio-maximo Description according to Stellfeld (and verified in copy Vienna): 1) Introductory part of 6 folios (?): Title; dedicatory and [in some copies] 4 Latin poems 2) Text of 109 folios, in five parts, each with separate pagination (in roman type numerals; each repeated to the left of the even pages, to the right of the uneven pages; an error in the first Missa [de Beata Virgine]: first folio numbered I to the left and II to the right). |
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| Variants | (according to Stellfeld): The introductory part has been re-arranged at least three times, in order to vary the dedicatories: A. Dedicatory addressed to D. Gebhard, Archbishop of Cologne, dated Bilstein (in Westphalia), 5 July 1582 (folios 2r-3r), followed by 4 Latin poems (two to the author by an unknown friend; Auctor ad lectorem; Iacobus de Kerle cantori; in italic type) (folio 3v) (in copy Vienna) B. Dedicatory addressed to Emperor Rudolph II, 1 September 1582, followed by the 4 Latin poems (in copy Munich) C. Dedicatories addressed to Emperor Rudolph II, 1 September 1582, and to Pope Gregorius XIII, October 1582. The Latin poems have been deleted (in copy Sixtine Chapel). |
| Copies | (according to Stellfeld): Sistine Chapel (no. cp010685)Bayerische Staatsbibliothek- title-page missingAustrian National Library- S.A. 25 A, a 2- title-page missingLibreria, Venice |
| Bibliographical references | Stellfeld, pages 74 ff Not in Ruelens-de Backer |
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| Note 1 | Contains 5 parts, each numbered separately: Missa de Beata Virgine, in 4 voices (I-XXII), Missa Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, in 5 voices (I-XXII), Missa Regina Coeli, in 5 voices (I-XXIII), Missa Da Pacem Domine, in 5 voices (I-XXIX), Te Deum Laudamus, in 5 voices (I-XIII). |
| Note 2 | The work was already finished in June 1582, but the title-pages have the year 1583. It is possible that copies were brought on the market without a title-page, and that only for the copies with the dedicatory to Rudolph II, or Rudolph II and Gregorius XIII, a frontispiece was especially added. |
| Note 3 | The work was printed, as the similar large music-publications of de la Hèle, de Monte and Nuceus, issued by the Plantin Press in those years, on the special large size-paper intended for the choir-books commissioned by Philip II but not realized because of the war (Cf. the letter of Plantin to de Çayas, 31 January 1587: Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1204, page 138). |
| Note 4 | Very likely the composer Alard Nuceus (or Gaucquier: see no. cp011325), at that time - in 1582 - in the service of Archduke Mathias and knowing Plantin personally, acted as a middleman for his colleague, then at Cologne. This in any case can be deduced from an autographed note of Plantin, which must date before June 1582: 'A Monsr Alard du Gaucquier, maistre de chapelle de l'archiduc Mathias et à Monsr. Jacques de Kerle maistre de chapelle de l'Illustriss. et Revme de Colongne que m'envoyant argent et copies des Messes du dict Kerle je les imprimeray à 18 florins ou peu moins chaicunne messe et bailleray de chacune des dicts messes imprimées 5 exemplaires pour lesdits 18 florins (Arch. 10, folio 42; reproduced in Stellfeld, page 57; Corr., VIII-IX, page 570, n. 2, and Suppl. Corr., no. 251). |
| Note 5 | De Kerle finally took 12 copies, which were sent to him at Cologne on 22 June 1582 (Arch. 60). The Missae were counted 72 florins Carolus guilders (or 6 florins Carolus guilders per copy) and Te Deum Laudamus 10 florins Carolus guilders, with an additional 1 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers 'pour la caisse etc.', bringing the total sum to 83 florins Carolus guilders 3 stuivers This transaction is also noted in the ledger of 1582-89 (Arch. 20, folio 107): 'Jacques de Kerle…doibt avoir ad. de Juin la somme de [florins Carolus guilders 47 stuivers 10] que mon père m'a dict q[u'il] la receu en deux fois envoyés à luy. La reste pour sa copie etc.', meaning that the composer, previous to the shipment of the copies, had forwarded already this sum, and that Plantin did not insist to receive the remaining 35 florins Carolus guilders 13 stuivers, considering them to be an author's fee. Cf. also Ursprung, Jacobus de Kerle, page 99, and Stellfeld, page 78. |
| Note 6 | The sales are detailed in Stellfeld, pages 78-80. They started on 4 August 1582 with the shipment of 4 copies to the Frankfurt Fairs. From 1582 till 1595 only 16 copies are noted. The prices amounted to 5 florins Carolus guilders, 5 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, 6 florins Carolus guilders, and 6 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers |
| Note 7 | In 1589 de Kerle tried to have published by Plantin 5 other Missae, but this project was shelved (cf. Stellfeld, pages 80-81, and Corr., VIII-IX, nos. 1462 and 1490). |
| Note 8 | Listed in M 296, folio 11v ([Missae] Jacobi de kerle etc. aº 82, f[euilles] 115, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 6 stuivers 10), and M 321 (sub 1582: Missae quatuor Jacobi de Kerle in fº regali pesant, contenants fº [= feuilles] 97½ et ung Te Deum Laudamus de fº 13, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers 10). |
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