B-AF MS 1 (Leuven chansonnier)

Alamire Foundation, Leuven (Louvain), Belgium

manuscript of polyphony: probably c1470-1475

Archive Alamire Foundation, Leuven (Louvain), Belgium (B-AF)
Shelfmark MS 1 (Leuven chansonnier)
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements c120mm x 85mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
External Links
Provenance
  • Loire Valley, France
Contents 52 pieces from 15 composers
General Description

Sold by a small Brussels auction-house in 2014 as part of a mixed lot, and subsequently taken for identification by the purchaser (an art dealer) to the Alamire Foundation/KU Leuven Musicology Research Group for further examination. Found to be a previously-unknown late 15th-c. chansonnier, complete, unaltered, and in its original cloth binding - the first to appear since the 1930s na done of only 6 examples form the period.

The manuscript was acquired through the Léon Courtin—Marcelle Bouché Fund, administered by the "Fondation Roi Baudouin", and subsequently loaned long-term to the Alamire Foundation.

It contains 50 compositions, of which 12 are unique to this source. Full texts of some songs known only from this source. 1 Latin-texted motet & 49 French secular pieces; one in 4vv & the rest in 3vv.

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Binding

original cloth brocade

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

95 folios

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Decoration

decorated capitals. The manuscript contains a coat of armsrelated to the Dukes of Savoy-Nemours, and thus links the ms to the other Loire valley chansonniers (where the Dukes of Savoy had possessions).

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Index

alphabetical index at beginning

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Surface

Parchment

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1v–2 Ave regina caelorum II - 1a pars (of 2): Ave regina caelorum -
Appears on: 1v–2
Genres: BVM, Motet
2v–3 Ave regina caelorum II - 2a pars (of 2): Gaude virgo gloriosa -
Appears on: 2v–3
Genres: BVM, Motet
3v–4 N'aray je jamais mieux que j'ai -
Appears on: 3v–4
Genres: Chanson
4v–5 Tant est mignonne ma pensee est cointe - Anonymous
Appears on: 4v–5
Genres: Chanson
5v–6 Le souvenir de vous me tue mon seul bien -
Appears on: 5v–6
Genres: Chanson
6v–7 Les treves d'amours - Anonymous
Appears on: 6v–7
Genres: Chanson
7v–9 La despourvue et la bannie -
Appears on: 7v–9
Genres: Chanson
9v–11 Le despourveu infortune = Tanto e l'affanno -
Appears on: 9v–11
Genres: Chanson
11v–13 L'homme banny de sa plaisance -
Appears on: 11v–13
Genres: Chanson
13v–14 Les desloyaux ont la saison -
Appears on: 13v–14
Genres: Chanson
14v–15 D'un aultre aimer mon coeur s'abesseroit -
Appears on: 14v–15
Genres: Chanson
15v–16 Je ne vis oncques la pareille de vous -
Appears on: 15v–16
Genres: Chanson
16v–17 J'ai pris amours - Anonymous

J'ai pris amours

Anonymous
Appears on: 16v–17
Genres: Chanson
17v–18 Helas, mon cueur, tu m’occiras - Anonymous
Appears on: 17v–18
Genres: Chanson
18v–19 Aime qui vouldra = Der Fochsschwanz = O lux luminis - Anonymous
Appears on: 18v–19
Genres: Chanson, Contrafactum
19v–20 Puisqu'a vous servir - Anonymous
Appears on: 19v–20
20v–21 De tous biens plaine est ma maîtresse -
Appears on: 20v–21
Genres: Chanson
21v–22 S'il advient que mon deul me tue -
Appears on: 21v–22
Genres: Chanson
22v–23 Oublie, oublie, oublie, oublie - Anonymous
Appears on: 22v–23
Genres: Chanson
23v–25 Cent mille escus quand je voldroie -
Appears on: 23v–25
Genres: Chanson
25v–27 Comme femme desconfortée -
Appears on: 25v–27
Genres: Chanson
27v–29 Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may -
Appears on: 27v–29
Genres: Chanson
29v–31 Se mieulx ne vient, d'amours peu me contente -
Appears on: 29v–31
Genres: Chanson
31v–32 Au travail suis -
Appears on: 31v–32
Genres: Chanson
32v–34 Nul ne me doit de ce blâmer - Anonymous
Appears on: 32v–34
Genres: Chanson
34v–36 Ma maitresse - 1a pars (of 2): Ma maitresse et ma plus grande amie -
Appears on: 34v–36
Genres: Chanson
36v–37 Ma maitresse - 2a pars (of 2): Hellas, de vous -
Appears on: 36v–37
Genres: Chanson
37v–39 Ma bouche rit et ma pensée pleure -
Appears on: 37v–39
Genres: Chanson
39v–41 Tout a par moi -
Appears on: 39v–41
Genres: Chanson
41v–43 Esperant que mon bien viendra -
Appears on: 41v–43
Genres: Chanson
43v–45 Le corps s'en va -
Appears on: 43v–45
Genres: Chanson
47v–47 Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir - Anonymous
Appears on: 47v–47
Genres: Chanson
45v–50 Donnez l’aumosne, chiere dame - Anonymous
Appears on: 45v–50
Genres: Chanson
50v–51 Par malle bouche la cruelle - Anonymous
Appears on: 50v–51
Genres: Chanson
51v–52 Escu d’ennuy seme de plours - Anonymous
Appears on: 51v–52
Genres: Chanson
52v–54 Si vous voullez que je vous ame - Anonymous
Appears on: 52v–54
Genres: Chanson
54v–56 Fors seulement l'attente que je meure = Frayres y dexedes me -
Appears on: 54v–56
Genres: Chanson
56v–57 La plus dolente qui soit née - Anonymous
Appears on: 56v–57
Genres: Chanson
57v–59 Ce que ma bouche nose dire - Anonymous
Appears on: 57v–59
59v–61 Ha coeur perdu et desollé - Anonymous
Appears on: 59v–61
Genres: Chanson
61v–63 Helas que pourra devenir -
Appears on: 61v–63
Genres: Chanson
63v–65 Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur - Anonymous
Appears on: 63v–65
Genres: Chanson
65v–67 Quant j'ay au coeur -
Appears on: 65v–67
Genres: Chanson
67v–70 Est-il merci de quoy -
Appears on: 67v–70
Genres: Chanson
70v–72 Quant ce viendra = Gaude mater misericordiae -
Appears on: 70v–72
Genres: Chanson
72v–73 En attendant vostre venue - Anonymous
Appears on: 72v–73
Genres: Chanson
73v–74 Helas l'avois je deservy destre si reudement - Anonymous
Appears on: 73v–74
Genres: Chanson
74v–76 Ravi d'amours despourvu de bon sens - Anonymous
Appears on: 74v–76
Genres: Chanson
76v–78 Quant je fuz prins au pavillon - Anonymous
Appears on: 76v–78
Genres: Chanson
78v–79 Vraiz amans pour dieu suppliez - Anonymous
Appears on: 78v–79
Genres: Chanson
79v–80 J’ay des semblans tant que je vueil - Anonymous
Appears on: 79v–80
Genres: Chanson
80v–81 Henri Philippet le vert me fais porter - Anonymous
Appears on: 80v–81
Genres: Chanson
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Barbingant, Pierre (fl. c1445-60)
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)
Busnoys, Antoine (ca. 1430–1492)
Caron, Firminus (ca. 1460–ca. 1475)
Compère, Loyset (ca. 1445–1518)
Convert, P
Du Fay, Guillaume (1397–1474)
Fede, Johannes
Frye, Walter (–ca. 1475)
Ghizeghem, Hayne van (ca. 1445–ca. 1497)
Michelet
Morton, Robert
Mureau, Gilles
Ockeghem, Jean de (ca. 1410–1497)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Aime qui vouldra = Der Fochsschwanz = O lux luminis Anonymous 18v–19
Au travail suis 31v–32
Ave regina caelorum II - 1a pars (of 2): Ave regina caelorum 1v–2
Ave regina caelorum II - 2a pars (of 2): Gaude virgo gloriosa 2v–3
Ce que ma bouche nose dire Anonymous 57v–59
Cent mille escus quand je voldroie 23v–25
Comme femme desconfortée 25v–27
D'un aultre aimer mon coeur s'abesseroit 14v–15
De tous biens plaine est ma maîtresse 20v–21
Donnez l’aumosne, chiere dame Anonymous 45v–50
En attendant vostre venue Anonymous 72v–73
Escu d’ennuy seme de plours Anonymous 51v–52
Esperant que mon bien viendra 41v–43
Est-il merci de quoy 67v–70
Fors seulement l'attente que je meure = Frayres y dexedes me 54v–56
Ha coeur perdu et desollé Anonymous 59v–61
Helas l'avois je deservy destre si reudement Anonymous 73v–74
Helas que pourra devenir 61v–63
Helas, mon cueur, tu m’occiras Anonymous 17v–18
Henri Philippet le vert me fais porter Anonymous 80v–81
J'ai pris amours Anonymous 16v–17
Je ne fais plus je ne dis ne escris = Au joli mois de may 27v–29
Je ne vis oncques la pareille de vous 15v–16
J’ay des semblans tant que je vueil Anonymous 79v–80
L'homme banny de sa plaisance 11v–13
La despourvue et la bannie 7v–9
La plus dolente qui soit née Anonymous 56v–57
Le corps s'en va 43v–45
Le despourveu infortune = Tanto e l'affanno 9v–11
Le souvenir de vous me tue mon seul bien 5v–6
Les desloyaux ont la saison 13v–14
Les treves d'amours Anonymous 6v–7
Ma bouche rit et ma pensée pleure 37v–39
Ma maitresse - 1a pars (of 2): Ma maitresse et ma plus grande amie 34v–36
Ma maitresse - 2a pars (of 2): Hellas, de vous 36v–37
N'aray je jamais mieux que j'ai 3v–4
Nul ne me doit de ce blâmer Anonymous 32v–34
Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur Anonymous 63v–65
Oublie, oublie, oublie, oublie Anonymous 22v–23
Par malle bouche la cruelle Anonymous 50v–51
Puisqu'a vous servir Anonymous 19v–20
Quant ce viendra = Gaude mater misericordiae 70v–72
Quant j'ay au coeur 65v–67
Quant je fuz prins au pavillon Anonymous 76v–78
Ravi d'amours despourvu de bon sens Anonymous 74v–76
S'il advient que mon deul me tue 21v–22
Se mieulx ne vient, d'amours peu me contente 29v–31
Si vous voullez que je vous ame Anonymous 52v–54
Tant est mignonne ma pensee est cointe Anonymous 4v–5
Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir Anonymous 47v–47
Tout a par moi 39v–41
Vraiz amans pour dieu suppliez Anonymous 78v–79

denotes primary source study

Burn, David J. 2017. The Leuven Chansonnier: A New Source for Mid Fifteenth-Century Franco-Flemish Polyphonic Song. Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 135-158.

Burn, David J, and Bart Demuyt (editors). 2017. Leuven Chansonnier [facsimile/commentary]. Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile.  Leuven: Alamire Foundation.

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