F-Pnm Latin 17839

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France

fragment, pen trial: 14th century

Archive Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm)
Shelfmark Latin 17839
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Surface Parchment
Format portrait
Measurements 280 × 200 mm.
Notations
  • black void mensural
External Links
Contents Contains 1 composition from 1 composer.
General Description

A 14th century pen trial located on the recto side of the final folio of a 13th century manuscript containing Aristotle's Physics. The fragment consists of the complete tenor of the ballade En amer a douce vie (B41) from Le Remède de fortune (though lacking the first ending of the A section).

The lines of the lower stave are prefaced by pitch indications, and the leaf includes (apparently unrelated) texts in different hands. The prominent legible texts are 'Francorum Rex' and 'Robertus dei gratia francorum rex / universis presentes literas'. Possibly the scribe was referring here to Robert the Pious, (d. 1031) if this were copied from a cartulary.

Tenor concordance identified by Michael Cuthbert, 2023.

Richard Dudas, July 2023

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
103r En amer a douce vie / car tant plaist la maladie 4 -
Machaut, Guillaume de (ca. 1300–1377)

En amer a douce vie / car tant plaist la maladie

Machaut, Guillaume de (ca. 1300–1377)
Appears on: 103r
Genres: Ballade
Number of voices: 4
Voice: Tenor
Languages: French
Clef: f3
General Note

Tenor only
Composer Compositions
Machaut, Guillaume de (ca. 1300-1377)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
En amer a douce vie / car tant plaist la maladie
Machaut, Guillaume de (ca. 1300–1377)
103r
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