US-STu MLM 1346 (Boorman fragment)

Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, United States

bifolio, fragment: mid-1430s

Archive	Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, United States (US-STu)
Shelfmark	MLM 1346 (Boorman fragment)
Image Availability	DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability.
Surface	Parchment
Numbering System	Foliation
Measurements	220 x 165 mm
Other Identifiers	olim (Former shelfmark): US-NYboorman s.s.
Relationships	Boorman, Stanley (1939–) (owner)
External Links	images catalogue entry
Provenance	Northern Italy, Italy
Contents	3 pieces from 3 composers

General Description

Copied by a single scribe in northern Italy, perhaps the Veneto. Contains 3 well-known ballades, all unattributed. Outer pages contain annotations indicating that the sheet was used (untrimmed) as cover for a bundle of legal documents in the late sixteenth century.

Exhibited at the London Book Fair in 1975 by the firm of Otto Haas, which had apparently acquired it in the 1960s; subsequently acquired by Stanley Boorman. Now in the care of Stanford University Libraries.

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Physical Description

Slightly irregular sized folios - 161-168mm wide and 220-224 tall. A tear in the parchment halfway up the side of f.1, where the bifolio was bound as a cover in later re-use.

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Ruling

Vertical rulings not quite regular, but stave ruling (with rastrum) lined up neatly across central fold.

DIAMM, 2020

Foliation

Original opening numbers 124 & 125 at the top of the two versos; but Fallows uses modern foliation 1-2.

DIAMM, 2020

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Folio / Pages	Composition / Item title	Source attribution	Composers (? Uncertain)
1	Se la face ay pale	-	Du Fay, Guillaume (1397–1474)
Se la face ay pale Du Fay, Guillaume (1397–1474) Appears on: 1 Genres: Ballade, Chanson
1v–2	Je ne requier de ma dame et m'amie	-	Grenon, Nicolas
Je ne requier de ma dame et m'amie Grenon, Nicolas Appears on: 1v–2 Genres: Ballade General Note includes the Contratenor elsewhere attributed (correctly?) to Matteo da Perugia
2v	Je loy (loe, loue) amours et ma dame mercye	-	Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)
Je loy (loe, loue) amours et ma dame mercye Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460) Appears on: 2v Genres: Ballade, Chanson General Note incomplete: Discantus & Tenor only

Composer	Compositions
Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)	Je loy (loe, loue) amours et ma dame mercye – 2v
Du Fay, Guillaume (1397–1474)	Se la face ay pale – 1
Grenon, Nicolas	Je ne requier de ma dame et m'amie – 1v–2

Composition	Composers (? Uncertain)	Folios / Pages
Je loy (loe, loue) amours et ma dame mercye	Binchois, Gilles (ca. 1400–1460)	2v
Je ne requier de ma dame et m'amie	Grenon, Nicolas	1v–2
Se la face ay pale	Du Fay, Guillaume (1397–1474)	1

‡ denotes primary source study

Fallows, David. 2002. Ballades by Dufay, Grenon and Binchois: the Boorman Fragment. Musikalische Quellen—Quellen zur Musikgeschichte: Festschrift für Martin Staehelin zum 65. Geburtstag, edited by David Fallows, 25–35. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. Notes: description, contents list, facsimile.

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Benjamin Albritton

Wednesday, 25 November, 2020

This is now owned by Stanford University Libraries: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13343337

Michael Cuthbert

Monday, 15 June, 2020

Manuscript was sold by prof Boorman a few years ago.

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Benjamin Albritton

Tuesday, 26 October, 2021

Updated location of the fragment & shelfmark; and added image link