Zu anderer Zeit an anderem Ort? Neue Hinweise zur Provenienz der Handschrift D-Z 81/2 und deren Senfl-Repertoire

The manuscript D-Z 81/2 has been known to musicologists since Reinhard Vollhardt described this source for the first time in his catalogue of music kept by the Ratsschulbibliothek Zwickau. With an overall number of 35 compositions by Ludwig Senfl this source must be counted as one of the most important manuscripts for the musical oeuvre of this composer in Central Germany. The two principal aims of the paper are therefore to discuss Senfl’s works contained in this source as well as to evaluate this hitherto neglected manuscript under philological aspects. A first-time physical description of the three remaining partbooks reveals the structure of the manuscript in two formerly independent parts and includes the discussion of watermarks, and a detailed inventory. By investigating the scribes, two main results can be registered: firstly, the relationship with D-Rtt F.K. Musik 2/3; and secondly, the identification of the main scribe of D-Z 81/2 as the Zwickau Kantor Wolfgang Schleifer. This in turn has major implications for several manuscripts, Wolfram Steude has identified as belonging together. It gives reason to question Steude’s hypothesis of the origin of this group of manuscripts in Georg Rhaw’s printing press