Surname
Cornuaille (de)
Given Name
Jean
Variant Name
Corvaille
Role
Music copyist
Musician
Active period
circa 1525 - 1531
Workplace
Cambrai
Institution
Cathédrale de Cambrai
Biography
Cambrai BM, ms 17
CCM : 1 Mass, 1 Mass Proper section, 6 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 91 hymns, 1 motet = 101
Censier-l, Lupi-2, (Morales)-3, anon-95
i + 171 + i paper folios, 395 x 275. Original foliation, I-CXL. Original covers of brown leather. An original index, arranged alphabetically, lists 45 pieces. The main scribe was Jean Cornvaille (d. 1531), vicar of Cambrai Cathedral. Black inked calligraphic initials, sometimes tinted with a wash, decorated with grotesque faces, figures, and animals. Unidentified coats of arms on f. LIII (three fleurs-de-lis on a shield) and f. CV' (double-headed eagle with a crown). Rubrics identify the feasts for which each hymn is to be sung. Many of the hymns in the manuscript may have been composed by Johannes Lupi (Hal Simmons).
1526-31, with additions from the late 16th century (Craig Wright). Copied at the cathedral in Cambrai (inscription on third unnumbered folio at beginning: "Johannes de Cornuaille perpetuus vicarius ecclesie Cameracensis me possidet donatque post decessum suum prefate ecclesie pro sinistra parte chori …")
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blackburn, Bonnie J: The Lupus Problem, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1970), 365, passim [CCM descriptor(s): MCp]
Coussemaker, Charles Edmond Henri de: Notice sur les Collections Musicales de la Bibliothèque de Cambrai. Paris, 1843 (Hildesheim and New York, 1975 (reprint)) [CCM descriptor(s): DL]
Kirsch, Winfried: Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te DeumVertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts (Tutzing, 1966), 128 [CCM descriptor(s): CpDis]
Maldeghem, R-J van: Trésor musical: collection authentique de musique sacrée & profane des anciens maîtres belges ... Musique religieuse (Brussels, 1865-93), XVI, 32 [CCM descriptor(s): Tp]
Molinier, Auguste; et al., : Catalogue General des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques Publiques de France (Paris, 1885-), 4 [CCM descriptor(s): DL]
Reese, Gustave: 'Maldeghem and His Buried Treasure: A Bibliographical Study' Notes VI (1948-49), 75-117, 87 [CCM descriptor(s): M]
Wolf, Johannes: Handbuch der Notationskunde (Leipzig, 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963), I, 447 [CCM descriptor(s): M]
Bibliographical information displayed has been taken from RISM and/or the Census Catalogue and may therefore be out of date, though any more recent items notified to us have been included. We would be very grateful to be notified by e-mail of new items for inclusion in the bibliography lists and general information for any manuscript. All contributions to information about manuscripts are acknowledged.
L'Officialité archidiaconale de Paris aux XVe-XVIe siècles: sa composition ... - Page 404
de Léon Pommeray, Université de Paris. Faculté de droit - 1933 - 616 pages
Zl°-24 fol. 226 V° (vendredi 4 janvier 1526). Magister Johannes Cornouaille presbiter vicarius ... Zl°-23 fol.134 R° (mercredi 24 mai 1524) Johannes ...
CCM : 1 Mass, 1 Mass Proper section, 6 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 91 hymns, 1 motet = 101
Censier-l, Lupi-2, (Morales)-3, anon-95
i + 171 + i paper folios, 395 x 275. Original foliation, I-CXL. Original covers of brown leather. An original index, arranged alphabetically, lists 45 pieces. The main scribe was Jean Cornvaille (d. 1531), vicar of Cambrai Cathedral. Black inked calligraphic initials, sometimes tinted with a wash, decorated with grotesque faces, figures, and animals. Unidentified coats of arms on f. LIII (three fleurs-de-lis on a shield) and f. CV' (double-headed eagle with a crown). Rubrics identify the feasts for which each hymn is to be sung. Many of the hymns in the manuscript may have been composed by Johannes Lupi (Hal Simmons).
1526-31, with additions from the late 16th century (Craig Wright). Copied at the cathedral in Cambrai (inscription on third unnumbered folio at beginning: "Johannes de Cornuaille perpetuus vicarius ecclesie Cameracensis me possidet donatque post decessum suum prefate ecclesie pro sinistra parte chori …")
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Blackburn, Bonnie J: The Lupus Problem, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago (1970), 365, passim [CCM descriptor(s): MCp]
Coussemaker, Charles Edmond Henri de: Notice sur les Collections Musicales de la Bibliothèque de Cambrai. Paris, 1843 (Hildesheim and New York, 1975 (reprint)) [CCM descriptor(s): DL]
Kirsch, Winfried: Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te DeumVertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts (Tutzing, 1966), 128 [CCM descriptor(s): CpDis]
Maldeghem, R-J van: Trésor musical: collection authentique de musique sacrée & profane des anciens maîtres belges ... Musique religieuse (Brussels, 1865-93), XVI, 32 [CCM descriptor(s): Tp]
Molinier, Auguste; et al., : Catalogue General des Manuscrits des Bibliothèques Publiques de France (Paris, 1885-), 4 [CCM descriptor(s): DL]
Reese, Gustave: 'Maldeghem and His Buried Treasure: A Bibliographical Study' Notes VI (1948-49), 75-117, 87 [CCM descriptor(s): M]
Wolf, Johannes: Handbuch der Notationskunde (Leipzig, 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963), I, 447 [CCM descriptor(s): M]
Bibliographical information displayed has been taken from RISM and/or the Census Catalogue and may therefore be out of date, though any more recent items notified to us have been included. We would be very grateful to be notified by e-mail of new items for inclusion in the bibliography lists and general information for any manuscript. All contributions to information about manuscripts are acknowledged.
L'Officialité archidiaconale de Paris aux XVe-XVIe siècles: sa composition ... - Page 404
de Léon Pommeray, Université de Paris. Faculté de droit - 1933 - 616 pages
Zl°-24 fol. 226 V° (vendredi 4 janvier 1526). Magister Johannes Cornouaille presbiter vicarius ... Zl°-23 fol.134 R° (mercredi 24 mai 1524) Johannes ...