Used as a cover for other documents; the fragment is now preserved flat as a single leaf. There is also a small additional fragment apparently from the same original source, but probably not cut from one of these leaves. Several anonymous secular French songs are preserved, with Se vous estes by Guillaume de Machaut.
B-TOsa Fonds begijnhof 490
Stadtsarchief, Tongeren, Belgium
fragmentary leaves stitched together: c. 1375
| Archive | Stadtsarchief, Tongeren, Belgium (B-TOsa) |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Fonds begijnhof 490 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Provenance |
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| Contents | Contains 10 compositions, 1 from 1 composer, 9 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
The outer face is rather grubby and rubbed but the music is still legible; the inner face is cleaner.
Notation
black full mensural
Ruling
at least 13 red five-line staves (the top stave is cropped) on the inner face, with four lines on the outer face of the larger part, and 12 lines on the outer face of the smaller leaf and 13 on the inner face. The irregular ruling, which includes gaps for blocks of text suggests that the pages were hand-ruled at the time of copying to accommodate the music to be copied into the gaps. Although the larger part preserves the full width of the rulings (in a slightly unusual tall, narrow format, which might imply that this is only half of a complete leaf, with the page trimmed down the middle blank margin), the smaller half is damaged on the fore-edge and some material is lost.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2007. Esperance and the French song in Foreign Sources. Studi Musicali, 36/1: 1-19.
Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. Trecento fragments and Polyphony beyond the codex. Harvard University, Ph.D.
Schreurs, Eugeen. 1995. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages-Renaissance). Leuven. Pages: 22-23.
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