IIIF Manifest
The manuscript contains a collection of Ars Antiqua motets as part of the original layer of the manuscript's production, copied in the same non-mensural notation as the monophonic troubadour/trouvère songs that otherwise constitute the bulk of the book: these monophonic songs are not included in the DIAMM inventory. Around 1300, additional pieces were added on empty pages in mensural notation; these too are monophonic pieces and excluded from the DIAMM inventory. (Unusually, the RISM entry includes non-mensural motets but it excludes mensural pieces.)
F-Pnm Français 844 (Chansonnier du Roi)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
manuscript of polyphony: c.1300
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | Français 844 (Chansonnier du Roi) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Measurements | 310 x 215 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 41 compositions, 41 are anonymous. |
General Description
Notation
square notation with undifferentiated longs and ligatures
Surface
parchment
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 1: A parchment manuscript dating from c. 1300 and meas. 310 x 215 mm. (formerly c. 360 x 240 mm.), the so-called Chansonnier du Roi contains 216 folios numbered in 18th century ink at t.r.r. The total given here includes the original f. B-E, while f. A is an 18th century list of authors on a paper folio of the same period. Folios A-E are numbered in red. The inconsistent foliation 1-215 of the rest of the corpus is followed by another list of works by composers on f. 216-221 plus 2 blank pages, all these dating from the 18th century. Finally there are two modern paper pages front and back. Originally there were 26 gatherings, but 18 folios have been torn out. The motets form gathering 25. 428 French songs in R include 27 unica. In addition, there are 61 Troubadour songs (31 unica), 3 lays (1 French, 1 Provencal), 33 additions (Rondeaux, chansons, lays), 2 dances, 8 estampies and 1 danse royal. The codex is written in 2 columns throughout. The square notation consists of undifferentiated longs and ligatures, except where another hand takes over near the end (e.g. f. 215-215v has long-breve differentiation). 13-14 red four-line staves are used for the most part, though f. 135-135v are on brown five-line staves. The estampies are in a later hand on 11 red five-lines staves per page. Initials are in blue-red-gold, and there are some fine miniatures. The 18th century binding of light brown leather with gilt tooling has a maroon spine, which is probably a later addition. It bears the monogram RF. There is obviously a close relationship between this codex and IV; in fact, the motets appear to have been copied from IV, although several have been lost with missing pages and the music of the T is often om. in R. As in JV, two-part works predominate, but there are 3 essentially three-part compositions. Two works which appear outside the motet fascicle as monodic songs are included here since they are known as part-music from W2 and Mo. No. 2a is a special case: it only occurs in polyphonic form as a clausula in St V and with a different Mot text in F.
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Dittmer, Luther A. 1959. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts IV: Paris 13521 and 11411. Publications of Mediaeval Music Manuscripts, vol. 4. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: f. 374v, 378, 373v-374, 382v-383 (facsimiles of R 6, 15, 17 and 21 after Cl).
Dittmer, Luther A. 1959. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts IlI: Eine zentrale Quelle der Notre Dame-Musik. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 3. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: 182, 172 (transcription of R 7 and 27 after MüA).
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1958. Bibliographie der ältesten französischen und lateinischen Motetten. Pages: XXXIIIf, etc.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1958. Ein altfranzösischer Motetten-Kodex. Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift La Clayette, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouvelle acquisition francaise 13521. Pages: f. 374v, 378, 373v-374, 382v-383 (facsimiles of R 6, 15, 17 and 21 after Cl).
Spanke, Hans. 1943. Der Chansonnier du Roi. Romanische Forschungen, 57: . Pages: 38ff.
Apel, Willi. 1942. (4th ed., 1949). The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 201, 271 ff, 338.
Beck, J. B. 1938. Corpus cantilenarum medii aevi, Ser. 2, Le Chansonnier du Roi. 2 vols. Pages: I (complete facsimile of R); II.
Kujlmann, G. 1938. Die zweistimmigen französischen Motetten des Kodex Montpellier, Faculté de Médecine H196. 2 vols. Pages: II, 15, 76, 96, 90, 17, 38, 74 (transcription of R 2, 4, 8, 9, 14, 20, 23).
Rokseth, Y. 1935+1939. Les Polyphonies du XIVe siecle. 4 vols. Pages: I-III (facsimile and transcription of all R motets in Mo after this source); IV, 172, 191, 256, 262, 266, 280f, 283, 287.
Anglès, Higinio. 1931. El Còdex musical de las Huelgas. 3 vols. Pages: II-III, nos. 126 and 113 (facsimile and transcription of R 15-16 after Hu); I, 274, 285.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1926. Trouvère-Lieder und Motettenrepertoire. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 9: 8and65. Pages: 25, 22, 17, 34, 11 (transcription of R 1-3, 11 and 38); l0f, 16, 24, 34.
Kossman, E F, and Friedrich Ludwig. 1926. Ein Fragment einer neuen altfranzösischen Motettenhandschrift. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 8: 193ff. Pages: 193f.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1923. Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 5: 185-222, Vol. 5 (1924) 273-315. Pages: 190, 199, 203, 210, 212, 220.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1921, 1927. Rondeaux, Virelais und Balladen aus dem Ende des 12., dem 13. und dem ersten Drittel des 14. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols. Pages: I, no. 32; II, p. 21, 21, 23, 23 (transcription of R 10, 36-38, 41); II, 20ff.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910. Repertorium organorum recentioris et motetorum vetustissimi stili. I. Catalogue raisonné. 1. Handschriften in Quadratnotation. Halle: Niemayer.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1909. Die liturgischen Organa Léonins und Perotins. Riemann-Festschrift: Gesammelte Studien--Hugo Riemann zum sechzigsten Geburtstage überreicht von Freunden und Schülern, 200ff. Leipzig. Pages: 210-213.
Aubry, Pierre. 1908. Cent Motets du XIIIe siècle. 3 vols. Pages: I-II, nos. 89, 97, 60, 87 (facsimile and transcription of R 6 and 15-17 after Ba); III, 108.
Beck, J. B. 1908. Die Melodien der Troubadours. Pages: 18ff.
Raynaud, Gaston. 1881, 1883. Recueil de Motets français des Xile et XIIle siècles. 2 vols. Pages: II, 48 (R motet texts).
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