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Medieval Music Database

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria 596, busta HH2

A single folio, perhaps of Italian origin, which served as a flyleaf for a codex of Latin oratories by Stefano da Pescia. The folio contains 4 chansons; the virelai `La grant biauté' is concordant in F-Pn 6771, the other three are unica.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 3, 4. Handschriften mit mehrstimmiger Musik des 14., 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols, edited by Kurt von Fischer and Max Lütolf, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1972, pp. 738-739.

CONTENTS


  1. La grant biauté et la douchour (virelai))

  2. Nulle pitié ma dame n'a de moy (Tanel))

  3. Or m'assaut pëour, desconfort (Tristani))

  4. En esperant que de vous amés soy (rondeau))


LITERATURE


  1. FRATI, Lodovico. 'Frammenti di un antico canzoniere musicale francese', Il libro e la stampa, IV (1910): 15ff. [also in Rivista musicale italiana, XXII (1915): 237ff.

  2. LUDWIG, Friedrich. 'Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, V (1923): 185-222; 273-315, pp. 285, 286/n1.

  3. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252 (pp. 206-207).

  4. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Zweiter Band: Einleitung zu I. Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. II. Motetten. III. Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928, p. 22.

CONCORDANCE

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex) (58v-59, La grant biauté et la douchour).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. The study of love: : La grant biauté et la douchour; En esperant que de vous amés soy;.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003