F-B Ms. 716

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index with incipits: late 13th century

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Contents Contains 57 compositions, 2 from 1 composer, 55 are anonymous.
General Description

Index from a onetime musical manuscript repurposed as the a rear flyleaf for the Cartulaire de l'archevêché de Besançon (Cartulary of the Archbishopric of Besançon). Although this source contains no actual music, the index on p. 117 preserves 57 incipits, the majority of which are concordant with motets known from Montpellier, Bamberg, Clayette, Torino Vari 42, and other late 13th century sources. Three pairs of neighboring incipits share a number, suggesting the numbering is indicative of the folio or opening where the motets appeared.

Not in RISM or CCMS but known since Paul Meyer's discovery in 1898.

Richard Dudas, 2025

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Number of voices Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
i Doz rossignoles jolis / Virgo gloriosa / Laetabitur
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: i
Genres: Motet
ii Par une matinée el mois joli d'avril / Mellis stilla, maris stella, rosa / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: ii
Genres: Motet
iii Or voi je bien que il mi convent descovrir / Eximium decus virginum reorumque / Virgo
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: iii
Genres: Motet
iiii Povre secours ai encore recovré / Gaude, chorus omnium fidelium / Angelus
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: iiii
Genres: Motet
v Conditio nature defuit in filio / O natio nephandi generis / Mane prima sabbati
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: v
Genres: Motet
vi Chorus innocentium sub Herodis / In Bethlehem Herodes iratus
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: vi
Genres: Motet
vii Amor vincens omnia potentia / Marie preconio devotio / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: vii
Genres: Motet
viii Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: viii
Genres: Motet
ix El mois d'avril qu'iver vait departant / O quam sancta, quam benigna fulget mater / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: ix
Genres: Motet
x Mors, que stimulo nos urges emulo / Mors morsu nata venenato, mors / Mors morsu
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: x
Genres: Motet
xi Caro, spiritui quid subderis? / His hec, ratio, tuo iudicio / Anima, jugi lacrimas difflue
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xi
Genres: Motet
xii Ave, lux luminum, ave, splendor / Salve, virgo, rubens rosa, sola / Neuma
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xii
Genres: Motet
xii Salve, virgo virginum / Est-il dont ainsi / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xii
Genres: Motet
xiii Au douz mois de mai en un vergier pensis / Crux, forma penitentie, gratie / Sustinere
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xiii
Genres: Motet
xiii Mout me fu gries li departir de m'amiete / In omni fratre tuo non habeas / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xiii
Genres: Motet
xiiii Ave, virgo regia, mater clementie / Ave, gloriosa mater salvatoris / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xiiii
Genres: Motet
xv Encontre le tens de pascour que tous amants / Mens fidem seminat, fides spem germinat / In odorem
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xv
Genres: Motet
xvi L'état du monde et la vie va empirant / Beata viscera Marie virginis tam salutifera / Beata viscera
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xvi
Genres: Motet
xvii Nobili precinitur vaticinio / Flos de virga nascitur, sol / Proles Marie virginis pie
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xvii
Genres: Motet
xviii … / De penetratoribus / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xviii
Genres: Motet
xix O Maria, virgo davitica / O Maria, maris stella plena gratie / Veritatem
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xix
Genres: Motet
xx Quant florist la violete, la rose et la flor / Non orphanum te deseram sed efferam / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xx
Genres: Motet
xxi Quant repaire la verdor et la prime flourete / Flos de spina rumpitur, spina caret flos / Regnat
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxi
Genres: Motet
xxii Non pepercit Deus filio proprio / Non pepercit Deus nato proprio / Mors
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxii
Genres: Motet
xxiii O quam necessarium vestrum est officium / Venditores labiorum fleant advocati / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxiii
Genres: Motet
xxiiii Bien me doi sor toutes riens d'amour loer / Je n'ai, que que nus en die / Kyrie fons
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxiiii
Genres: Motet, Troped Kyrie
xxv J'ai mis tote / Je n'en puis / Puerorum caterva
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxv
Genres: Motet
xxvi Quant vient en mai qu'erbe va verdoiant / Ne sai que je die, tant voi vilanie / Amoris Johanne
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxvi
Genres: Motet
xxvii … / Le jor … fu? donch mors [mois?] / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxvii
Genres: Motet
xxviii Entre Adam et Haniqal / Chiés bien cheant / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
- -
Appears on: xxviii
Genres: Motet
xxix … / Ch… qui je sus / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxix
Genres: Motet
xxx Entre Copin et Borgoi / Je me quidoie / Belle Izabelos
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxx
Genres: Motet
xxxi … / Hé resvelle toi Robin / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxi
Genres: Motet
xxxii Au coeur ai un mal / Je ne m'en repentirai / Jolietement me tient
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxii
Genres: Motet
xxxiii … / Gabelers [Babelers?] doit bien / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxiii
Genres: Motet
xxxiiii … / Or ai je trop dormi / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxiiii
Genres: Motet
xxxv … / Quant venra li miens amis / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxv
Genres: Motet
xxxvi … / Je me chevachay l'autrier / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxvi
Genres: Motet
xxxvii Hé, dieus, de si haut si bas sui souples / Mal batu longuement ploure / Cumque
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxvii
Genres: Motet
xxxviii Dame de valour et de bonté / Hé, diex, quand je remir son cors le gay / Amoris
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxviii
Genres: Motet
xxxix Si come aloie jouer l'autrier / Deduisant com fins amourous / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xxxix
Genres: Motet
xl Bele Aëlis / Herou, herou / Flos filius eius
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xl
Genres: Motet
xli Li doz maus m'ocit que j'ai, ja sans li / Trop ai lonc tens en folie sejorné / Ma loiautes m'a nuisi vers amours / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xli
Genres: Motet
xlii Dieus, ou porrai je trouver merci / Ce sont amouretes qui mi tiennent / Omnes
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlii
Genres: Motet
xliii Mout me fu gries li departirs de m'amiete / Robins m'aimme, Robins m'a / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xliii
Genres: Motet
xliiii … / Je matinat / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xliiii
Genres: Motet
xlv Par un matinet l'autrier m'aloie / Les un bosquet vi Robinet / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlv
Genres: Motet
xlvi Cele m'a tolu la vie qui lonc tens / Lonc tans a que ne vi m'amie / Et sperabit
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlvi
Genres: Motet
xlvii Dame que j'aime et desire de fin coeur / Amours vaint tot fors de felon / Au tans d'este que cil oisel chantent / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlvii
Genres: Motet
xlviii … / Si com l'espinete voi / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlviii
Genres: Motet
xlix LDe vois tres serie, de douchour garnie / Hé, bone amourete, plus que riens doucete / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: xlix
Genres: Motet
l De ma dame vient li dous maus que je trai / Diex, comment porroie trouver voie / Omnes
Missing; mentioned in index
- -
Appears on: l
Genres: Motet
li Bien met amours son pooir a moi / Dame, alegiés ma grevance en boine foi / A Paris
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: li
Genres: Motet
lii Trop souvent me duel et sui en grieté / Brunete, a cui j'ai mon coeur douné / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: lii
Genres: Motet
lii Ja n'amerai autre que cele cui j'ai / Sire dieux, li doux maus m'ocist que j'ai / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: lii
Genres: Motet
liii Ce que je tieng pour deduit, c'est ma dolors / Certes mout est bone vie d'estre / Bone compaignie, quand ele est bien / Manere
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: liii
Genres: Chanson, Motet
liiii Ja de boine amors mes coeurs ne se departira / Ne sai tant Amors servir que me voelle / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
- - Anonymous
Appears on: liiii
Genres: Motet
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Halle, Adam de la (ca. 1245-ca. 1306)
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Amor vincens omnia potentia / Marie preconio devotio / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous vii
Au coeur ai un mal / Je ne m'en repentirai / Jolietement me tient
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxii
Au douz mois de mai en un vergier pensis / Crux, forma penitentie, gratie / Sustinere
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xiii
Ave, lux luminum, ave, splendor / Salve, virgo, rubens rosa, sola / Neuma
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xii
Ave, virgo regia, mater clementie / Ave, gloriosa mater salvatoris / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xiiii
Bele Aëlis / Herou, herou / Flos filius eius
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xl
Bien me doi sor toutes riens d'amour loer / Je n'ai, que que nus en die / Kyrie fons
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxiiii
Bien met amours son pooir a moi / Dame, alegiés ma grevance en boine foi / A Paris
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous li
Caro, spiritui quid subderis? / His hec, ratio, tuo iudicio / Anima, jugi lacrimas difflue
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xi
Ce que je tieng pour deduit, c'est ma dolors / Certes mout est bone vie d'estre / Bone compaignie, quand ele est bien / Manere
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous liii
Cele m'a tolu la vie qui lonc tens / Lonc tans a que ne vi m'amie / Et sperabit
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlvi
Chorus innocentium sub Herodis / In Bethlehem Herodes iratus
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous vi
Conditio nature defuit in filio / O natio nephandi generis / Mane prima sabbati
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous v
Dame de valour et de bonté / Hé, diex, quand je remir son cors le gay / Amoris
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxviii
Dame que j'aime et desire de fin coeur / Amours vaint tot fors de felon / Au tans d'este que cil oisel chantent / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlvii
De ma dame vient li dous maus que je trai / Diex, comment porroie trouver voie / Omnes
Missing; mentioned in index
l
Dieus, ou porrai je trouver merci / Ce sont amouretes qui mi tiennent / Omnes
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlii
Doz rossignoles jolis / Virgo gloriosa / Laetabitur
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous i
El mois d'avril qu'iver vait departant / O quam sancta, quam benigna fulget mater / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous ix
Encontre le tens de pascour que tous amants / Mens fidem seminat, fides spem germinat / In odorem
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xv
Entre Adam et Haniqal / Chiés bien cheant / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
xxviii
Entre Copin et Borgoi / Je me quidoie / Belle Izabelos
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxx
Hé, dieus, de si haut si bas sui souples / Mal batu longuement ploure / Cumque
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxvii
J'ai mis tote / Je n'en puis / Puerorum caterva
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxv
Ja de boine amors mes coeurs ne se departira / Ne sai tant Amors servir que me voelle / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous liiii
Ja n'amerai autre que cele cui j'ai / Sire dieux, li doux maus m'ocist que j'ai / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous lii
L'état du monde et la vie va empirant / Beata viscera Marie virginis tam salutifera / Beata viscera
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xvi
LDe vois tres serie, de douchour garnie / Hé, bone amourete, plus que riens doucete / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlix
Li doz maus m'ocit que j'ai, ja sans li / Trop ai lonc tens en folie sejorné / Ma loiautes m'a nuisi vers amours / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xli
Mors, que stimulo nos urges emulo / Mors morsu nata venenato, mors / Mors morsu
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous x
Mout me fu gries li departir de m'amiete / In omni fratre tuo non habeas / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xiii
Mout me fu gries li departirs de m'amiete / Robins m'aimme, Robins m'a / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xliii
Nobili precinitur vaticinio / Flos de virga nascitur, sol / Proles Marie virginis pie
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xvii
Non pepercit Deus filio proprio / Non pepercit Deus nato proprio / Mors
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxii
O Maria, virgo davitica / O Maria, maris stella plena gratie / Veritatem
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xix
O quam necessarium vestrum est officium / Venditores labiorum fleant advocati / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxiii
Or voi je bien que il mi convent descovrir / Eximium decus virginum reorumque / Virgo
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous iii
Par un matinet l'autrier m'aloie / Les un bosquet vi Robinet / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlv
Par une matinée el mois joli d'avril / Mellis stilla, maris stella, rosa / Domino
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous ii
Povre secours ai encore recovré / Gaude, chorus omnium fidelium / Angelus
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous iiii
Quant florist la violete, la rose et la flor / Non orphanum te deseram sed efferam / Et gaudebit
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xx
Quant repaire la verdor et la prime flourete / Flos de spina rumpitur, spina caret flos / Regnat
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxi
Quant vient en mai qu'erbe va verdoiant / Ne sai que je die, tant voi vilanie / Amoris Johanne
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxvi
Salve, virgo nobilis Maria / Verbum caro factum est / Et veritate Verbum
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous viii
Salve, virgo virginum / Est-il dont ainsi / Aptatur
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xii
Si come aloie jouer l'autrier / Deduisant com fins amourous / Portare
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxix
Trop souvent me duel et sui en grieté / Brunete, a cui j'ai mon coeur douné / In saeculum
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous lii
… / Ch… qui je sus / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxix
… / De penetratoribus / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xviii
… / Gabelers [Babelers?] doit bien / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxiii
… / Hé resvelle toi Robin / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxi
… / Je matinat / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xliiii
… / Je me chevachay l'autrier / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxvi
… / Le jor … fu? donch mors [mois?] / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxvii
… / Or ai je trop dormi / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxiiii
… / Quant venra li miens amis / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xxxv
… / Si com l'espinete voi / [Tenor]
Missing; mentioned in index
Anonymous xlviii

denotes primary source study

Everist, Mark E. 2018. Montpellier 8: Anatomy of... The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle, edited by Mark E Everist, 13-31. Boydell. Pages: 26. Notes: Notes concordances but without further discussion of the source.

Meyer, Paul. 1898. Table d'un ancien recueil de chansons latines et françaises. Bulletin de la Société des Anciens Textes Français, 24: 95-102. Notes: Initial discovery.

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