[Squarcialupi, Antonio. (1470-1480)]
Il Codice Squarcialupi [Codex] DELUXE Facsimile Edition
Giunti Editore: Giunti Editore (Libr. Musicale Italiana). 1992. Complete facsimile edition in full 8-color (+ gold) reproduction of the complete original manuscript in original format. Publisher's hardcover binding (29 x 41cm., facsimile of the original binding), 442 pp., together with a text volume (287 pp. edited by F. Alberto Gallo, with contributions by John Nádas, Kurt von Fischer, Luciano Bellosi, Margherita Ferro Luraghi, Nino Pirrotta, Giuseppe Tavani, Giulio Cattin, and Agostino Ziino) printed on handcrafted paper and bound in Fabriano paper. Limited edition of 998 numbered copies only, this example number 555/998, protected by a publisher's box (18" H x 13.5" W x 4.75"; 46 x 32cm) cloth boards with gilt stamping, spine in leather. Interior and texts in very fine condition, box with some nicks and scrapes, overall very good. Rare. Long ago sold out by the publisher (original price was 2400 Euro).The Squarcialupi Codex is the largest and unquestionably the most beautiful produced manuscript anthology of Italian music compiled in Florence during the first two decades of the Quattrocento and the present 'Squarcialupi Codex' is most probably the finest produced and most refined facsimile of a music manuscript ever. The codex contains an anthology of Italian music compiled in Florence (Firenze) during the first twenty years of the 15th century, with over 350 pieces of music —madrigals, ballatas, and caccias—150 of which are unique to this manuscript, from the 14th till early 15th century by composers Giovanni da Cascia, Jacapo da Bologna, Gherardello da Firenze, Vincenzo da Rimini, Lorenzo Masini, Paolo Tenorista, Donato da Firenze, Niccolò da Perugia, Bartolino da Padova, Francesco Landini, Egidio and Guglielmo da Francia, Zacara da Teramo, Andrea dei Servi and Giovanni Mazuoli. Pieces in the codex are arranged roughly chronologically by composer, with some pages left blank for the later addition of works. Its name is derived from the previous owner Antonio Squarcialupi, Florentine organist 1417-1480, attested by an inscription on the opening leaf. Later on it passed to Giuliano de Medici, then it passed to the Palatine Library and at the end of the 18th century it went to the Laurentian Library where it has remained. The magnificent miniatures and illuminations in color and gold were produced in the Florentine scriptorium of Santa Maria degli Angeli around 1410-'15. An indispensable source of early Renaissance music in Italy. (21583)
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