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Chansonnier with music notation

Or sus, vous dormez trop, ma dame (fol. [1]r); Se Lancelos (fol. [2]r); Je fortune fay a tous (fol. [2]v), Madame que (fol. [2]v), Guillaume de Machaut, Se vous n’estes pour mon guerredon (fol. [3]r); Guillaume de Machaut, De petit peu, de nient volenté (fol. [3]r); Pierre de Molins, De ce que fol pense (fol. [3]v)

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Gent, Rijksarchief te Gent, Varia D, nr. 3360A

Merel Waeyaert, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Additional notes by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Chansonnier, with music notation
Shelfmarks Rijksarchief Gent, Varia D, nr. 3360 A
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Southern Low Countries
Date of Origin late 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis. The loops of 'a' and 's' are completely closed. The 'h' has a small, looping descender. Annotations in gothica cursiva (16th century) on folio [1]r.
General Remarks

One leaf and the remains of a doubleaf (1 complete leaf, a strip of the other leaf). Crumpled. Writing at times completely illegible, or disappeared, see e.g. fol. [2]v.

Original Condition

Page Height 303 – 310 mm
Page Width 223 – 230 mm
Height of Written Area at least 235 mm
Width of Written Area 187 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 187 mm
Number of Lines 8 – 10
Ruling no ruling visible
More about the Condition

Belonged to same codex as Gent, Rijksarchief te Gent, Archief abdij van Groenenbriel, nr. 133, https://fragmentarium.ms/description/F-vjf4/4668.

Fol. [1]r has a Dutch annotation: 'uuren zal ic claghen' ('I will complain for hours')

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf, 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 310 x 230 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials and versals (alternating red and blue), rubrics (red), colour stroking (red)
  • Musical Notation

    Mensural notation, each page has 8 staves of 5 lines each, in black ink.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>Or sus, vous dormez trop, ma dame</i>
      • fol. [1]r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>Se Lancelos</i>
      • fol. [2]r-[3]v
      • Edition Plumley, Yolanda, ‘Citation and Allusion in the Late “Ars Nova”: The Case of “Esperance” and the “En Attendant” Songs’, Early Music History, 18 (1999), 344
      • Secondary Literature Plumley, Yolanda, ‘Citation and Allusion in the Late “Ars Nova”: The Case of “Esperance” and the “En Attendant” Songs’, Early Music History, 18 (1999), 287–363
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>Je fortune fay a tous</i>
      • fol. [2]v-[3]r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>Madame que</i>
      • fol. [2]v-[3]r
    • Content Item
      • Persons
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>Se vous n’estes pour mon guerredon</i>
      • fol. [2]v-[3]r
      • Remarks

        First three lines of fol. [3]r.
    • Content Item
      • Persons
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>De petit peu, de nient volenté</i>
      • fol. [2]v-[3]r
    • Content Item
      • Persons Pierre de Molins
      • Text Language Middle French
      • Title <i>De ce que fol pense</i>
      • fol. [2]r-[3]v

    History

    Remarks

    Fragments were used as bindings for registers; fol. [1] was used as a register for the year 1555 according to a provisional note.

    Bibliography

    • Strohm, R., ‘The Ars Nova Fragments of Gent’, Tijdschrift van de Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 34 (1984), 109–31

    • Schreurs, Eugeen, An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages-Renaissance) (Leuven, 1995), p. 18-21
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