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In shape of a single heart when book is closed and of two joined hearts when book is open. Copied by a single scribe. Copied in Savoy; compiled for Jean de Montchenu, a soldier and priest (later Bishop of Viviers) serving as Vicar-General and Councillor to Jean-Louis de Savoie, Bishop of Geneva. Subsequently owned by 'Pucci,' a Maltese nobleman. Listed in 19th-century library catalogues of Chédeau and Baron Jérôme Pichon (PicotC). Later acquired by the Paris banker Nathan James Edouard, Baron de Rothschild (1844-81), whose library went to his son Henri; passed to Bibliothèque Nationale in 1933.
F-Pnm Rothschild 2973 (Chansonnier Cordiforme; Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
manuscript of polyphony: 1470-7
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | Rothschild 2973 (Chansonnier Cordiforme; Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 185 x 160 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 46 compositions, 20 from 13 composers, 26 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original red velvet covers; binding and folios edged with gold.
Notation
black void mensural
Foliation
Original ink foliation, 1-68 (first four folios unnumbered; = 'A-D' in KottC).
Decoration
Illuminated miniatures, initials, and floral borders. Coat of arms of Jean de Montchenu on f. D; ex libris and coat of arms of later owner 'Pucci' inside front cover.
Index
Original index on ff. A-C'.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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30 French secular pieces, 14 Italian secular pieces = 44
(Barbingant/Fedé)-1, (Bedingham)-1, (Bedingham/Dufay)-1, (Bedingham/Dunstable)-1, (Binchois)-1, (Binchois/Dufay)-1, (Binchois/Frye)-1, (Busnois)-2, (Busnois/Caron)-1, (Cornago)-2, (Dufay)-2 + 1?, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Morton)-2, (Ockeghem)-2, (Vincenet)-1, anon-23
72 parchment folios in shape of a single heart when book is closed and of two joined hearts when book is open, 185 (along spine) x 160 (across lobes of heart). Original ink foliation, 1-68 (first four folios unnumbered; = "A-D" in KottC). Ff. 64'-68' blank. Original red velvet covers; binding and folios edged with gold. Original index on ff. A-C'. Copied by a single scribe. Illuminated miniatures, initials, and floral borders. Coat of arms of Jean de Montchenu (see below) on f. D; ex libris and coat of arms of later owner "Pucci" inside front cover.
1470-7 (KottU). Copied in Savoy; compiled for Jean de Montchenu, a soldier and priest (later Bishop of Viviers) serving as Vicar-General and Councillor to Jean-Louis de Savoie, Bishop of Geneva. Subsequently owned by "Pucci," a Maltese nobleman. Listed in 19th-century library catalogues of Chédeau and Baron Jérôme Pichon (PicotC). Later acquired by the Paris banker Nathan James Edouard, Baron de Rothschild (1844-81), whose library went to his son Henri; passed to Bibliothèque Nationale in 1933.
Vol 4
Composers: Add "(Regis)-1"; change "anon-23" to "anon-22."
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‡ denotes primary source study
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: 192,219ff, Plate XXXIII. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
Atlas, Allan W (editor). 1981. Robert Morton: The Collected Works. Masters and Monuments of the Renaissance, vol. 2. New York. Pages: xxiii-xxvi, 70-85. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (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. Pages: 269-72. 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, 15; II, 169-70, 210ff, passim. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (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, II, x, 167-9. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (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, 95ff, 240, passim. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Schavran, Henrietta. 1970. Review of KottM. Current Musicology, 10: 92-101. Pages: [includes corrections of KottM]. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Kottick, Edward Leon (editor). 1967. The Unica in the Chansonnier Cordiforme (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Rothschild 2973). Corpus mensurabilis musicae. 42. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
‡ Kottick, Edward Leon. 1967. The Chansonnier Cordiforme. Journal of the American Musicological Society, 20: 10-27. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; transcription (partial); facsimile (partial).
[No Author] 1964. The Bad Bishop's Book of Love Songs. Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts, 6/1: 26-31. Pages: [color reproductions of three openings]. Notes: facsimile (partial).
‡ Kottick, Edward Leon. 1962. The Music of the Chansonnier Cordiforme: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Rothschild 2973. University of North Carolina, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I-II. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; transcription; efacsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Blume, Friedrich (editor). 1949-79. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Kassel. Pages: X, 801; XI, Tafel 12; XV, 1584-5, Tafel 59. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial); facsimile (partial).
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. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); texts (partial).
Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1942. An Unknown Chansonnier of the 15th Century (the Mellon Chansonnier). The Musical Quarterly, 28: 14-49. Pages: 15, opp. 22. Notes: mention of MS; facsimile (partial).
Porcher, Jean, and Eugénie Droz. 1934. Le Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu. Les Trésors des Bibliothèques de France, vol. XVIII. 100-10. Notes: physical description (partial); facsimile (partial); texts (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
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: lxv, lxxi, lxxviii-xcvi. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Picot, Emile. 1884-1920. Catalogue des Livres Composant la Bibliothèque de Feu M. le Baron James de Rothschild. Paris. Pages: IV, 314-7. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial); facsimile (partial).
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Clemens Goldberg
Thursday, 1 February, 2024
Added concnordance for "Faites moy scavoir" (f. 62v) in Buxheimer orgelbuch
Clemens Goldberg
Thursday, 1 February, 2024
Added concordance for "N'aray je jamais", in Oporto 714
Clemens Goldberg
Monday, 22 January, 2024
Conconcordance of 'Jay mains de bien' (fols. 26v-28r), i.e. the 1a pars, with Dijon Chansonnier fols 153v-155v; and new literature for all of Busnois' chansons.
Clemens Goldberg
Thursday, 18 January, 2024
Bibliography updated.
Clemens Goldberg
Monday, 15 January, 2024
Pointed out that the setting of Morte merce (both partes, on fols 12v-13r and 14v-15r) is a version unique to this source that shares with Montecassino and Escorial B only a resembling version of the cantus and of the tenor of the first part. According to David Fallows this could be an "adaptation" of Cornago's supposed original in the other sources.
Clemens Goldberg
Friday, 12 January, 2024
Concordances for the 2 versions of 'O pellegrina' (f. 6v-8r, f. 15v-17) were reversed. This is now corrected.
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