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Apropos the PS: one of the better look-up sources for figures of later Quattrocento Aragonese Naples is prince Gaetano Filangieri's edition of Leostello's _Effemeridi delle cose fatte per il Duca di Calabria (1484-1491)_ (Napoli: Tipografia dell'Accademia reale delle scienze, 1883). Johannes de Guerne and Petrus Burdigalensis appear there on pp. xiii-xiv as the scribes, respectively, of manuscripts of Aquinas commissioned by cardinal Giovanni d'Aragona in 1486 and in 1484. A Google Books digitization of this matter (which latter appears to derive from Camillo Minieri Riccio, _Cenno storico dell'Accademia alfonsina istituita nella cittą di Napoli nel 1442_ [Napoli, 1875]), starts at <http://tinyurl.com/krbqpdz>.
Petrus de Abbatis Burdegalensis was the scribe of a copy of John Cassian's _Institutiones_ now Paris, BN, ms. lat. 2129, formerly in the library of Matthias Corvinus. There's a digitization of it in Gallica at <http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000027b>. A brief account of how this ms. got from Naples to Buda appears at <http://m.gask.cz/Home_Page_en/gallery_exhibits/Master_of_Cassian_s_code>.
For possible further information on these scribes one would of course wish to consult Tammaro De Marinis' _La biblioteca napoletana dei re d'Aragona_ (Milano: Hoepli, 1947-1952; 4 vols.; a 2-vol. Supplemento appeared in 1969) as well as subsequent scholarly work on the Aragonese royal library and scriptorium in Naples. Ditto for the scholarship on Corvinus' library.
Best,
John Dillon
University of Wisconsin-Madison
On 01/24/14, Christian Goursaud wrote:
> Do any of you have examples of, or opinions on, the extent to which members of the Monteolivetan order nurtured musical and music-theoretical texts, particularly in the fifteenth century? I'm asking because of two elogia composed by the Monteolivetan 'frater Fortunatus', which 'bookend' several music-theoretical texts by Johannes Tinctoris in the manuscript Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 2573. I believe the manuscript to have been written in Naples in the late fifteenth century by the scribe Venceslaus Crispus, who was extensively involved with the copying of Aquinas, in gothic rotunda script, for the Aragonese court at Naples under King Ferrante at that time.
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> Best,
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> Christian
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> PS: If the scribes Petro (de Abbatis) Burdegalensi or Johannes de Guerne are familiar to anyone, I would be interested to know.
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> PhD Candidate
> Birmingham Conservatoire
> United Kingdom
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