F-Pnm Français 1585 (Machaut B)

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France

manuscript of polyphony: 15th century

Archive Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm)
Shelfmark Français 1585 (Machaut B)
Image Availability The images on this record are linked using IIIF.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 288 x 202 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: F-Pn 1585
  • RISM: MachB
  • Other catalogues/source: B
  • olim (Former shelfmark): F-Pn fonds français 1585
Notations
  • Ars Nova
Relationships
External Links
Provenance
  • France
Contents Contains 133 compositions from 1 composer.
General Description

Copy of the US-NYw (Vogüé manuscript) of the 14th century, though its script and notation are rougher. Produced by nine text scribes and two music scribes (one scribal hand may have been responsible for corrections).There is no leaf in Pn 1585 corresponding to the empty page f. 138 in US-NYw, while the lost folio US-NYw f. 321 is placed erroneously in Pn 1585 as f. 309. In addition, the first folio of the lays and the next-to-the-last folio of the Virelais is missing in Pn 1585. The inventory of Pn 1585 corresponds with that of US-NYw, but the two missing Rondeaux in US-NYw are here numbered Pn 1585 83A and 83B.

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Binding

modern pigskin

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Liminary Note

Compositions de Guillaume de Machaut de Lorris Poete & Musicien qui florissoit sur la fin du XIVe siecle

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Notation

Ars Nova: less usual form of the breve found in US-NYw, namely with a descending stroke on the left of the body of the note.

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Ruling

10 red five-line staves per page

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Foliation

1-395

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Foliation

The foliation is identical up to the end of the Virelais. In Pn 1585 the old foliation at t.r.r., t.m.r. and b.m.r. ends at f. 217.

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Decoration

Rubrics are in red, but only rarely in red and blue

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Surface

Paper

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DIAMM Note

nine text scribes, two music scribe (one scribal hand responsible for corrections?)

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: A 15th century paper manuscript meas. 288 x 202 mm. and containing 395 folios. This complete Machaut manuscript is a copy of the important source US-NYw of the 14th century, though in appearance the rough script and notation of Pn 1585 contrast strikingly with the neat, beautifully illuminated pages of US-NYw. Nevertheless the identity is complete down to the less usual form of the breve found in US-NYw, namely with a descending stroke on the left of the body of the note. The foliation is identical up to the end of the Virelais. In Pn 1585 the old foliation at t.r.r., t.m.r. and b.m.r. ends at f. 217. Rubrics are in red, but only rarely in red and blue. The notation remains of Ars Nova type, hence black, and it is written on 10 red five-line staves per page. The binding is of modern pigskin. There is no leaf in Pn 1585 corresponding to the empty page f. 138 in US-NYw, while on the other hand the lost folio US-NYw f. 321 is placed erroneously in Pn 1585 as f. 309. In addition, the first folio of the lays and the next-to-the-last folio of the Virelais is missing in Pn 1585. The inventory of Pn 1585 naturally corresponds with that of US-NYw, but the two missing Rondeaux in US-NYw are here numbered Pn 1585 83A and 83B.

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Maxwell, Sheila Kate. 2009. Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse. University of Glasgow, PhD.

Earp, Lawrence M. 1995. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research.  New York and London: Garland.

Bent, Margaret. 1983. The Machaut manuscripts Vg, B and E. Musica Disciplina, 37: 53-82.

Seay, Albert. 1965. Music in the Medieval World. Pages: 146 (facsimile of Pn 1585 f. 283v-284).

Reaney, Gilbert. 1959. Musica Ficta in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Les Colloques de Wegimont II-1955, L'Ars nova: Recueil d'études sur la musiquedu XIVe siècle , 196ff. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.

Günther, Ursula. 1958. The fourteenth-century motet and its development. Musica Disciplina, 12: 27-58. Pages: 27ff.

Gennrich, Friedrich. 1957. Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame. Pages: (facsimile of Pn 1585 f. 281v-294).

Günther, Ursula. 1957. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestellt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeaux von Guillaume de Machaut sowie datierbaren Kantilenensätzen seiner Zeitgenossen und dierekten Nachfolger. University of Hamburg, Ph.D. dissertation.

Parrish, Carl. 1957. The Notation of Medieval Music. Pages: pl. L—LIII (facsimiles of Pn 22546 f. 131v-132 and 124v-125).

Reaney, Gilbert. 1956. Voices and Instruments in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Revue belge de musicologie, 10: 3-17and93-104.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1955-56. The Lais of Guillaume de Machaut and Their Background. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 82: 15-31,discussion31-32.

Machabey, Armand. 1955. Guillaume de Machault. 2 vols.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1955. The Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut: Melody, Rhythm and Form. Acta Musicologica, 27: 40ff.

Hughes, Dom Anselm, and Gerald Abraham (editors). 1954, 1957-. New Oxford History of Music II, III & IV. 3 vols. London/New York/Toronto. Pages: Reaney, 1-15.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: II-III.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1953. Fourteenth Century Harmony and the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 7: 129ff.

Reaney, Gilbert. 1952. A Chronology of the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais Set to Music by Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 6: 33ff.

Gombosi, Otto Johannes. 1950. Machaut's Messe Notre-Dame. Musical Quarterly, 36: 204ff.

Machabey, Armand (editor). 1948. Guillaume de Machault: Messe Notre-Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.

Perle, G. 1948. Integrative Devices in the Music of Machaut. Musical Quarterly, 34: 169ff.

Apel, Willi. 1942. (4th ed., 1949). The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600.  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 343 ff.

Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times.  New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: Ch. 12.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1929. Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte I, edited by Friedrich Ludwig,  Pages: 267ff.

Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3.  Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: I, III and IV.

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910), 101ff; Die mehrstimmige Musik des 14. Jahrhunderts in <em>SIMG</em> IV (1902. Die mehrstimmige Musik des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Bericht über den III. Kongreß der IMG, 1909: 16ff. Pages: 21, 27ff, 33f, 36ff.

Hoepffner, Ernest. 1908-1921. Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. 3 vols. Pages: II, appendix (Ludwig's critical transcription of the music from the Remede de Fortune = Pn 22545 1-3).

Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II (no facsimiles from Pn 1585).

Chichmaref, V (editor). [1909]. Guillaume de Machaut: Poésies lyriques. Edition compléte en deux parties, avec introduction, glossaire et fac-similés publiée sous les auspices de la Faculté d'Histoire et de Philologie de Saint-Pétersbourg.  Paris: Champion. Pages: complete edition of Machaut's lyric poems with and without music.

Van, Guillaume de. None. Guglielmi de Mascaudio: Messe Notre Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.

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David Chappuis

Friday, 8 July, 2022

The ballad "Je ne cuit pas" is in folio 301

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