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Copied by a single scribe. Many texts corrupt. Copied in Florence. Later owned by the librettist and collector René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773-1844); passed to Bibliothèque Nationale following Pixérécourt's death.
F-Pnm Français 15123 (Pixérécourt Chansonnier)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
manuscript of polyphony: c.1480-4
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | Français 15123 (Pixérécourt Chansonnier) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 180 x 120 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 169 compositions, 97 from 37 composers, 72 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Many folio numbers and attributions obliterated by later trimming
Binding
Modern covers of brown leather, stamped 'Bibliothèque de M. G. de Pixérécourt.'
Notation
not indicated
Foliation
Original ink foliation, 1-198 (f. 83 now missing; last three folios not numbered).
Foliation
1-200
Decoration
Illuminated miniatures, initials, and borders attributed by Paolo D'Ancona to workshop of Gherardo and Monte de Giovanni del Fora, active in Florence 1470-95; same workshop also decorated FlorBN BR 229 (PerkMC). Manuscript related to FlorBN BR 229, VatG XIII.27, RomeC 2856, and FlorBN Magi. 178.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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2 motets, 143 French secular pieces, 20 Italian secular pieces, 3 Spanish secular pieces, 1 Dutch secular piece, 1 textless piece = 170
(A. Agricola)-1, (Barbingant/Fedé)-1, (Basin)-1, (Bedingham)-2, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable)-1, (Bedingham/ Frye)-1, (Binchois)-1, Busnois-23, Busnois/(Caron)-2, (Busnois/ Compère/Mureau)-1, Busnois/(Hayne van Ghizeghem)-2, Busnois/(Ockeghem)-1, Caron-14, (Caron/Dusart)-1, Compère-1, (Congiet)-1, Cornago-1, (Domarto)-1, Dufay-5, (Dux Burgensis)-1, (Enrique/Wreede)-1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-3, (Isaac/Martini)-1, (Japart)-1, (Joye)-1, (J. Legrant)-1, (Molinet)-1, Morton-6, Ockeghem [Ochghen]-4, Ockeghem/(Dufay)-1, (Pullois)-2, (Tinctoris)-1, (Touront)-1, (Vincenet)-2, Ycart-1, anon-80
ii + 200 parchment folios, 180 x 120. Many folio numbers and attributions obliterated by later trimming. Original ink foliation, 1-198 (f. 83 now missing; last three folios not numbered). F. 198' and last three folios have blank staves only. Modern covers of brown leather, stamped "Bibliothèque de M. G. de Pixérécourt." No index. Copied by a single scribe. Illuminated miniatures, initials, and borders attributed by Paolo D'Ancona to workshop of Gherardo and Monte de Giovanni del Fora, active in Florence 1470-95; same workshop also decorated FlorBN BR 229 (PerkMC). Manuscript related to FlorBN BR 229, VatG XIII.27, RomeC 2856, and FlorBN Magi. 178. Many texts corrupt.
Probably ca. 1480-4 (AtlCG). Copied in Florence. Later owned by the librettist and collector René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773-1844); passed to Bibliothèque Nationale following Pixérécourt's death.
Vol 4
Composers: Add "(Plummer?)-1"; change "anon-80" to "anon-79."
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Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Brown, Howard Mayer (editor). 1983. A Florentine Chansonnier from the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale MS Banco Rari 229. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. VII. Chicago and London. Pages: 14-5,192,211ff, Plates XVI-XVII, XXXII. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii, xxvii, xxx, xxxvi, 25-7, 37-9, 64-6, 70-85, 89-92, 95-101. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Atlas, Allan W. 1981. Conflicting Attributions in Italian Sources of the Franco-Netherlandish Chanson, c. 1465-c. 1505: A Progress Report on a New Hypothesis. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, Cambridge. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Boorman, Stanley. 1981. Limitations and Extensions of Filiation Technique. Music in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Patronage, Sources and Texts, edited by Stanley Boorman, 319-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pages: 330ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: I, 10-9,28,30; II, 167-8,193ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Gore, Glenn Leon. 1978. The Works of Philippe Basiron (Philippon?): Transcription and Commentary. West Virginia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,31-2,115; II.xv-xvii. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hudson, Barton (editor). 1977. Hayne van Ghizeghem: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 74. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii-xviii,xxvi,xxxv-xlix. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan. 1977. On Reading Fifteenth-Century Chanson Texts. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30: 320-4. Notes: facsimile (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Thompson, James (editor). 1976. Les Oeuvres Completes de Philippe (?) Caron. Transcription et Notes Critiques de James Thomson. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: II, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).
Atlas, Allan W. 1975-6. The Cappella Giulia Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, C. G.XIII.27). Musicological Studies, vol. 27. Brooklyn. Pages: I,73ff,254-5, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Riemann, Hugo. 1972. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte. Leipzig, 1904-13. Reprint of the 2nd edition New York and London. Notes: II/1,279 [incorrectly referred to as MS 15103].
Jeppesen, Knud. 1968-70. La Frottola. Acta Jutlandica, vol. XL/2, XLI/1, & XLII/1. 3 vols. Copenhagen. Pages: II,xxxiv,87,184-5, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Haberkamp, Gertraut. 1968. Die weltliche Vokalmusik in Spanien um 1500. Der Cancionero musical de Colombina von Sevilla und außerspanische Handschriften. Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte, vol. 12. Tutzing. Pages: 66,84-5,309-13, Tafel VIII. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial).
Gülke, Peter (editor). 1967. Johannis Pullois: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 41. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: xvii,38. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Thomson, James. 1964. An Introduction to Philippe(?) Caron. Musicological Studies, vol. 9. Brooklyn. Pages: 14-6,18-22,44. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Lerner, Edward R (editor). 1961-70. Alexandrí Agricola: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 22. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: V,xliv-xlv,45-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).
Davis, Bertran Earl. 1960. The Works of Johannes Vincenet. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I,G,9,13,15,150-1. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Pease, Edward Joseph (editor). 1960. Music from the Pixérécourt Manuscript: A Modern Edition of Twelve Compositions from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fonds français 15123. Ann Arbor. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list; incipits; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pease, Edward Joseph. 1959. An Edition of the Pixérécourt Manuscript. Indiana University, Ph.D. Dissertation. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; discussion.
Parrish, Carl. 1957. A Curious Use of Coloration in the Pixérécourt Codex. Essays on Music in honor of Archibald Thompson Davison by his Associates, 83-90. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Plamenac, Dragan. 1954. An Unknown Composition by Dufay? The Musical Quarterly, 40: 190-200. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Plamenac, Dragan. 1954. Une Composition Inconnue de Dufay? Revue Belge de Musicologie, 8: 75-83. Pages: 76-83. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: II, Tafel 35; X,800,1315-7. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
de Van, Guillaume, and Heinrich Besseler (editors). 1948-66. Guillaume Dufay: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 1. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: VI, passim. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan. 1948. Review of MME I. The Musical Quarterly, 34: 289-93. Pages: 292-3 [discusses erroneous information in RieH and MME concerning call number and contents of this manuscript]. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola. Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: I,118, passim; XIV,27; XXXIII.26. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Jeppesen, Knud (editor). 1927. New York, 1965 (reprint, with new remarks by the editor). Der Kopenhagener Chansonnier: Das Manuskript Thott 291s der Königlichen Bibliothek Kopenhagen. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Copenhagen and Leipzig. Pages: xxí-ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Wolf, Johannes (editor). 1908-21. Reprint: Farnborough, England, 1968. Werken van Jacob Obrecht. Leipzig and Amsterdam,. Pages: I,iii, Anhang, i-iii. Notes: transcription (partial).
Omont, Henri (editor). 1868-1902. Bibliothèque Nationale: Catalogue Général des Manuscrits Français. Paris. Pages: VIII,319. Notes: physical description.
Goldberg, Clemens (editor). None. Chansonnier Pixérécourt: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 15123. publ. with support of the Goldbergstiftung on http://www.goldbergstiftung.de/forum/index_de.php?a=topic&t=81.
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Jesse Rodin
Friday, 19 July, 2024
removed incorrect attribution to ?Josquin on the chanson "Tenez moi" (f.40v-41); this is a different setting, not concordant with the one sometimes attributed to Josquin
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
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