Copied by one main scribe, who also wrote most of CopKB 291 (JepK); later additions by two other scribes (ff. 187'-192 and ff. 202'-203, respectively) (GutiérrW, who disputes RifSC's assertion that scribe of ff. 187'-192 also appears in FlorR 2794). Contents in two sections: formes fixes pieces to f. 163, combinative chansons and free-form pieces thereafter. Treatise on mensural notation on ff. 5-6. Probably copied in Dijon (PlamDM).
F-Dm MS 517 (Dijon Chansonnier)
Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon, France
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1465-9
| Archive | Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon, France (F-Dm) |
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| Shelfmark | MS 517 (Dijon Chansonnier) |
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| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 175 x 128 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 162 compositions, 75 from 26 composers, 87 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of tan leather over boards.
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original ink foliation, ii-vii; ix-cc, beginning on seventh extant folio (f. i and f. viii now missing); modern foliation (cited hereafter), 1-203 ('10' applied to two consecutive folios).
Decoration
Illuminated initials in blue, red, yellow, and brown, decorated with grotesque faces, animals, etc.
Index
Original index on ff. l'-4' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (some pieces not listed in index; one piece listed in index no longer in manuscript).
Surface
parchment
DIAMM Note
Inventory supplied by Jane Alden, 2011
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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160 French secular pieces, 1 textless piece = 161
(A. Agrícola?)-1, Barbingant-1, Barbingant/(Fedé)-1, Barbingant/(Ockeghem)-1, (Binchois)-1, (Boubert)-1, Busnois-30, (Busnois/Caron)-1, Caron-2, Compère-2, (Convert)-3, (Delahaye)-1, (Dufay)-2 + 1?, Hayne van Ghizeghem-1, (Michelet)-1, (Molinet)-1, (Morton)-3, Ockeghem-9, Ockeghem/(Busnois)-1, (Symonet le Breton)-1, Tinctoris-1, anon-95
204 parchment folios, 175 x 128. One double leaf (ff. I/VIII) is missing. Original ink foliation, I-CC (first 6 folios not included); modern foliation, 1-10; 10bis-203. Original covers of tan leather over boards. Original index, with pieces listed alphabetically by title, on ff. l'-4'. Carefully and beautifully copied, with grotesque initials (in blue, red, yellow, or brown), and texts written in a florid Gothic script. The main scribe also copied CopKB 291 and portions of WashLC L25; a second scribe (who copied the last three pieces) also appears in FlorR 2794 (RifSC). Contents are in two sections: traditional formes fixes pieces are found to f. 163; polytextual and free-form pieces are found thereafter. Repertorial connections with CopKB 291, Wolf A 287, and WashLC L25. Brief treatise on mensural notation on ff. 5-6.
Ca. 1470-5 (PlamDM); last three pieces added in 1480's (LitteMR). Probably originated at the court of the Dukes of Burgundy at Dijon (PlamDM); French origin also possible, as suggested by scribal concordance with FlorR 2794.
Vol. 4
1 motet, 2 motet-chansons, 155 French secular pieces (3 incomplete), 1 Italian secular piece, 1 textless piece = 160
(A. Agricola?)-1, Barbingant-1, (Barbingant/Fedé)-1, Barbingant/(Ockeghem)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable-anon)-1, (Binchois)-1, (Boubert)-1, Busnois-28, (Busnois/Caron)-1, (Busnois/Isaac)-1, Busnois/(Ockeghem)-1, Caron-2, Compère-2, (Convert)-3, (Delahaye)-2, (Dufay)-2 + 1?, Hayne van Ghizeghem-1, (Michelet)-1, (Molinet)-1, (Morton)-3, Ockeghem-8, Ockeghem/(Busnois)-1, (Symonet le Breton)-1, Tinctoris-1, anon-93
204 parchment folios, 175 x 128. Original ink foliation, ii-vii; ix-cc, beginning on seventh extant folio (f. i and f. viii now missing); modern foliation (cited hereafter), 1-203 ("10" applied to two consecutive folios). Original covers of tan leather over boards. Original index on ff. l'-4' groups pieces alphabetically by first letter of text, with subgrouping under each letter by order of appearance (some pieces not listed in index; one piece listed in index no longer in manuscript).
Copied by one main scribe, who also wrote most of CopKB 291 (JepK); later additions by two other scribes (ff. 187'-192 and ff. 202'-203, respectively) (GutiérrW, who disputes RifSC's assertion that scribe of ff. 187'-192 also appears in FlorR 2794). Illuminated initials in blue, red, yellow, and brown, decorated with grotesque faces, animals, etc. Contents in two sections: formes fixes pieces to f. 163, combinative chansons and free-form pieces thereafter. Treatise on mensural notation on ff. 5-6.
Ca. 1465-9, with additions in 1480's and late 15th century (GutiérrW). Probably copied in Dijon (PlamDM).
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Loire Valley Chansonniers
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F-Dm MS 517 (Dijon Chansonnier)
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Alden, Jane. 2011. Songs, Scribes, and Society; The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers. New York: OUP.
Higgins, Paula. 1987. Antoine Busnois and Musical Culture in Late Fifteenth-Century France and Burgundy. Princeton University, Ph.D. Pages: 37-38; 99-100; 173; 202-03; 212; 269-75; 276; 281; 293-96, 234-96. Notes: Notes: discussion, transcription (partial), facsimiles (initials), concordances (partial), codicological history, art historical evidence, literary sources, concordances.
Gutiérrez-Denhoff, Martella. 1985. Der Wolfenbütteler Chansonnier Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek Codex Guelf. 287 Extrav.: Untersuchungen zu Repertoire und Überlieferung einer Musikhandschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts und ihres Umkreises. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 29. Wiesbaden. Pages: 88-94, 98ff, 294-8, 301ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); discussion.
Miyazaki, Haruyo. 1985. New light on Ockeghem's Missa 'Mi-mi'. Early Music, 13: 367-75. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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: 7, 143, 185, 225ff, Plate XXX. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hanen, Martha Knight. 1983. The Chansonnier El Escorial IV.a.24: Commentary and Edition. Musicological Studies, vol. XXXVI/1-3. 3 vols. Henryville, Ottawa, and Binningen. Pages: I, 37, 165, 167, 169-70. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (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: xx-xxvi, xxxii, 28-9, 43-4, 70-85, 95-101. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Hortschansky, Klaus. 1981. Notationsgewohnheiten in den burgundischen Chansonniers des 15. Jahrhunderts. Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, vol. 6. 9-22. Munich. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L. 1980. Antoine Busnois and the d'Hacqueville Connection. Musique naturelle et musique artificielle: In Memoriam Gustav Reese, Le Moyen Français, vol. 5. 49-64. Montreal. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Perkins, Leeman L, and Howard Garey (editors). 1979. The Mellon Chansonnier. New Haven and London. Pages: I,15; II, 155-7, 187ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Fallows, David. 1978. Robert Morton's Songs: A Study in Styles in the Mid-Fifteenth Century. University of California at Berkeley, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 30, 76, 112, 126, 393-4, 400, 421, 429, 487, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Pope, Isabel, and Masakata Kanazawa (editors). 1978. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871: A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Musk of the Late Fifteenth Century. Oxford. Pages: 58, 395-8, 427-30, 489, 543, 605ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Boorman, Stanley. 1977. The 'First' Edition of the Odhecaton A. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 30: 183-207. Pages: 207. Notes: transcription (partial).
Litterick, Louise. 1976. The Manuscript Royal 20. A. XVI of the British Library. New York University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 66-70, 76-7. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Picker, Martin. 1973. Review of PlamDM. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 336-40. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Rifkin, Joshua. 1973. Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26: 305-26. Pages: 319, 325-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Maniates, Maria Rika. 1970. Combinative Chansons in the Dijon Chansonnier. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 23: 228-81. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Douglas, Conrad Edward Mary. 1969. The motets of Johannes Prioris with a prefatory bio-bibliographical study. University of Illinois, Ph.D. Dissertation. Pages: 53-4. Notes: physical description; mention of MS; discussion.
Crane, Frederick. 1968. Materials for the Study of the Fifteenth Century Basse Danse. Musicological Studies, vol. 16. Brooklyn: Institute of Mediaeval Music. Pages: 15. Notes: mention of MS.
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1967. Ottaviano Petrucci: Canti B Numero Cinquanta Venice, 1502. Monuments of Renaissance Music, vol. II. Chicago and London. Pages: 11. Notes: concordances (partial).
Barret, Edward. 1964. The Dijon Chansonnier: Contents, Forms, Transcriptions. University of Louisville, Unpublished Master's thesis. Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Thomson, James. 1964. An Introduction to Philippe(?) Caron. Musicological Studies, vol. 9. Brooklyn. Pages: 44. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Brown, Howard Mayer. 1963. Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 120-l. Notes: physical description; 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, lxxxvi, 118. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial).
Brooks, Catherine V. 1953. Antoine Busnois, Chanson Composer. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 6: 111-35. Pages: 124-7. Notes: contents list (partial).
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: III, 461-2. Notes: facsimile (partial).
Hewitt, Helen Margaret (editor). 1942. Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A. Studies and Documents, vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mediaeval Academy of America. Pages: 106. Notes: 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: xxiv-xxvi, lxxvii-ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Droz, Eugénie, Geneviève Thibault, and Y Rokseth (editors). 1927. Trois Chansonniers Français du XV Siècle. Paris. Pages: vii-xii, passim. Notes: contents list; transcription (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Wolf, Johannes. 1913-9; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1963. Handbuch der Notationskunde. Leipzig. Pages: I, 448. Notes: mention of MS.
Adler, Guido (editor). 1894-1970. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. Graz and Vienna. Pages: XXXII, 237. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Ambros, August Wilhelm. 1887-1911. Geschichte der Musik. Leipzig. Pages: II, 385-91. Notes: mention of MS; transcription (partial).
Plamenac, Dragan. None. Dijon: Bibliothèque Publique: Manuscrit 517. Publications of Mediaeval Musical Manuscripts, vol. 12. Brooklyn. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile; mention of MS; discussion.
[No Author] None. MoD. . Notes: physical description; contents list; transcription (partial).
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Eric Jas
Friday, 5 April, 2024
Corrected composition on f. 57v–58 (the anonymous 'Tart ara', not Molinet's chanson)
Paula Higgins
Friday, 30 September, 2022
added to bibliography
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description