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Degentis vita; Cum vix artidici; Vera pudicitia
Four-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya 971 (olim 946), fol. 8v-9 (3/2) (with Tenor 'Degentis');
Brussels: Archives du Royaume, Archives Ecclésiastiques 758, fol. 53v (Triplum only);
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 62v-63 (4/2);
Nürnberg: Stadtbibliothek, fragment lat. 9 (olim Centurio V, 61), fol. 1 (Motetus lost, different Contratenor);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 25v-26 (lost);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 81v;
Yoxford: [manuscript in private possession, on deposit in Keble College Library, Oxford], fol. 2v (4/2).

Editions

1. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musée Condé, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a M. 5,24 (olim lat. 568), edited by Ursula Günther, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 39, p. 4.
2. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 116 (CH564)., p. 124 (Barc).
3. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'El manuscrito M971 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya (Misa de Barcelona)', Butlletí de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, X, 1982-1984, Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1986, p. 258.

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, pp. 145-146.
2. BUSSCHE, J. van den. 'Mensurale Fragmenten uit een Cartularium van de St. Goedele Kerk te Brussel', Handelingen van het XXII. Vlaamse Filologencongres, Ghent: 1957, pp. 367-368.
3. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44.
4. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 301-302.
5. STROHM, Reinhard. The rise of European music, 1380-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 42f.

Recordings

1. Music of the Gothic Era [c.1160 - 1400], Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1975): Archiv 2723 045(3) (EUR)/ 2710 019(3) (GER/USA).
2. The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1991): CDA66463.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003