| Record ID | cp012927 |
| Voet reference number | 1715 |
| Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:3242542 |
| Author | Philippus de MONTE |
| Title page transcription | MISSA, ‖ ad Modulum ‖ BENEDICTA ES. ‖ sex vocum. ‖ auctore ‖ PHILIPPO DE MONTE ‖ Sacræ Cæsareæ Maiestatis ‖ PHONASCO. |
| Collation | Folio (550 × 400): folios [Iro], I-XXVII, [XXVIIIro = verso of right side of XXVII]. No signatures; the foliation in Roman numerals is repeated on both pages of the open sheets (left and right) |
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| Pages | [1]: Title I-XXVII: Text and music [XXVIII]: ANTVERPIÆ EXCVDEBAT ‖ CHRISTOPHORVS PLAN- ‖ TINVS, TYPOGRAPHVS ‖ REGIVS, PRIDIE KALEN- ‖ DARVM NOVEMBRIS, ‖ M.D.LXXIX |
| Edition information | |
| Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 26452KBR Royal Library of BelgiumIllustere O.L. Vrouwe Broederschap, 's Hertogenbosch- two copiesStaatsbibliothek, Vienna |
| Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 205 (1578, no. 27: de la Hèle, Octo missae) A. Goovaerts, Histoire et bibliographie de la typographie musicale dans les Pays-Bas, 1880, pages 254-255, no. 254 Stellfeld, pages 42-45 |
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| Note 1 | Music and text of a mass 'ad Modulum Benedicta es' for six voices composed by Ph. de Monte; edition ornated with large initials. |
| Note 2 | This is a separate publication, but some scholars have somewhat confused the issue. RDB, page 205, describing the copy of KBR Royal Library of Belgium, in which de Monte's Missa is bound with de la Hèle's Octo missae, published by Plantin in 1578, wondered if the former was an appendix to de la Hèle's Missae and if de Monte's Missa was issued separately. A. Goovaerts, op. cit., no. 254, affirmed that de Monte's Missa was a 'tire' à part de la huitième messe insérée dans le grand recueil de 1578' (= de la Hèle, Octo missae), and claimed, page 255, no. 258, that it has been reprinted in 1580. These erroneous statements were repeated by Denucé in Corr., VI, page 84, and VIII-IX, page 111. |
| Note 3 | As was the case for all the monumental music-editions issued by the Plantin Press in those years, the large-dimension paper used had originally been purchased for printing the great Antiphonarium commissioned by King Philip II; a fact often mentioned in Plantin's correspondence (for this particular publication, cf. Corr., VI, no. 940, page 290: letter to de Çayas, 5 September 1581). |
| Note 4 | Very likely Plantin has been contacted either directly or indirectly by the author at the Frankfurt Fairs. It may also be presumed that de Monte had to pay part of the expenses or that at least he had to take a number of copies; something Plantin was used to ask from the composers he published and as indeed was done for the 1587-edition of de Monte's Missa. However, the Plantinian archives do not give details on this problem. |
| Note 5 | There are but few references to this publication in Plantin's correspondence. In an undated letter (September 1579 ?) to an unnamed correspondent (assumed gratuitously by Denucé to be 'Aldes Manuces', but anyway very likely an Italian merchant or scholar, as the letter is written in Italian), Plantin affirms that he is glad his correspondent had received the 'libro delle messe' (= de la Hèle's Octo missae, 1578), and continues telling that he has the intention to publish a similar work by de Monte ('…che mi augmenta l'animo di metter in luce altre messe alcune lequali ho in le mani del Exmo musico Phil. de Monte…': Corr., VI, no. 838). The work is also mentioned in the typographer's letter to de Monte, 12 September 1587 (Corr., VIII-IX, no. 1302: shipment of copies of de Monte's Missa of 1587, with an additional copy of the 1579 mass: 'encore d'une autre [copy] de Beata qui de long temps m'a esté faicte imprimer'). |
| Note 6 | The sale of copies of the edition has been compiled from the Plantinian archives by Stellfeld, pages 43-45: 30 copies were shipped to the Frankfurt Fairs on 13 February 1580; thereafter the sales were less than exciting (4 copies in 1580; 1 in 1581; 4 in 1582; 1 in 1583; 2 in 1586; 2 in 1587; 1 in 1592; 1 in 1594; 1 in 1607). The stock on 12 July 1640 still amounted to 91 copies. Unbound copies were first sold at 1 florins Carolus guilders 10 stuivers, but already from 1582 onwards the price was lowered to 1 florins Carolus guilders 5 stuivers |
| Note 7 | Listed in M 296, folio 11v (Missae sex vocum Philippi de Monte, f[oli] o reg[ali], f[euilles] 28, [price:] florins Carolus guilders 1 stuivers 5, 1579). |
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