H-Bn MS Bártfa Mus.2
Budapest, National Széchényi Lbrary, MS Bártfa 2 (hereeafter ms. 2). Large collection of liturgical music. 6 partbooks (incomplete): D, AI, AII, TI, TII, B. Heavily damaged and restored.
Provenance: Copied for the church of St. Aegidius in Bártfa (Bardejov). See below for details.
Published catalogue: Róbert Árpád Murányi. Thematisches Verzeichnis der Musiksammlung von Bartfeld (Bártfa). Bonn, 1991. DIAMM entry
Choralis Constantinus II contents (A, T, B only): Ms. 2 consists of two distinct sections (labeled “Koll. 1" and “Koll. 2" in Murányi’s catalogue). The first section contains mass propers and miscellaneous pieces for the period from Advent through Easter. The feasts are not labeled. This section includes the following pieces from Choralis Constantinus II:
- Introit-Rorate coeli (no. 1) {Advent]
- Introit-Puer natus (no. 3) [Christmas]
- Alleluia-Dies sanctificatus (no. 5) [Christmas]
- Introit-Ecce advenit (no. 10) [Epiphany]
- Introit-Suscipimus (no. 11) [Purification]
- Alleluia-Pascha nostrum (unnumbered) [Easter]
The second section contains much later repertoire. The latest piece in it was printed in 1623. Based on the pattern of variants, the manuscript appears to have been copied from ms. 24 or a copy of it. According to Murányi, the manuscript is mostly in the hand of Zacharias Zarewutius (1605-67). Zarewutius was the copyist of H-Bn MS Bártfa Mus.1, which has a date of 1 September 1665 (pp. XXI-XXII). If he copied both sections of ms. 2, as he appears to have done, some of the pieces from Choralis II must still have been of interest in Bártfa until well into the seventeenth century. Whether this interest was purely historical, or whether the pieces were still in the active performance repertoire, cannot be determined.