US-NYpm M. 396

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, United States

manuscript of polyphony: 14th century

Archive Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, United States (US-NYpm)
Shelfmark M. 396
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Surface Parchment
Measurements 243 x 321 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: US-NYpm 396 Morg
  • Other catalogues/source: Pm
Notations
  • Ars Nova
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Provenance
  • France
Contents Contains 11 compositions from 1 composer.
General Description

Mainly literary works of Machaut, but the MS also includes Jacques Bruyant's Le Chemin de Pauvrete et de Richesse, Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans merci and a French translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. By Machaut there are the Prologue, the Dit du Vergier, the Jugement du Roi de Behaigne, the Jugement du Roi de Navarre, the Remède de Fortune, the Dit du Lyon, the Confort d'Ami, the

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Binding

previous 18th century binding was of tan calf; the present one dates from 1933 and is of three-quarter brown morocco. The spine bears the words Guillaume de Machaut || Oeuvres || Chartier || La Belle Dame Sans Merci || French || XV Cent. || M 396 in gold leaf.

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Notation

Ars Nova

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Ruling

8 red five-line staves per page

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Foliation

213v-214v music; complete MS 1-247

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Foliation

foliated in modern pencil at t.r.r. 1-247

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Decoration

ormal minuscule with initials in blue on red, red on black, blue, red or yellow. 126 miniatures

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Surface

parchment

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: An early 15th century parchment codex meas. 243x321 mm. and consisting of 247 folios numbered in modern pencil at t.r.r. In addition, there are two further old flyleaves at both front and back and two modern paper flyleaves at both front and back. None of these are numbered. The previous 18th century binding was of tan calf. The present one dates from 1933 and is of three-quarter brown morocco. The spine bears the words Guillaume de Machaut || Oeuvres || Chartier || La Belle Dame Sans Merci || French || XV Cent. || M 396 in gold leaf. The contents are mainly literary works of Machaut, but the ms also includes Jacques Bruyant's Le Chemin de Pauvrete et de Richesse, Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans merci and a French translation of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae. By Machaut there are the Prologue, the Dit du Vergier, the Jugement du Roi de Behaigne, the Jugement du Roi de Navarre, the Remède de Fortune, the Dit du Lyon, the Confort d'Ami, the

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Sets

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Earp, Lawrence M. 1995. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research.  New York and London: Garland.

Avril, François. 1982. Les manuscrits enluminés de Guillaume de Machaut. Guillaume de Machaut: Poète et Compositeur. Colloque-Table Ronde organisé par l'Université de Reims (19-22 avril, 1978), Actes et Colloques, vol. 23. 117-134. Paris: Klincksieck.

Sanders, Ernest. 1980. English polyphony in the Morgan library manuscript. Music and Letters, 61/2: 172-176.

Arlt, Wulf. 1975. Aspekte der Chronologie und des Stilwandels im französischen Lied des 14. Jahrhunderts. Forum Musicologicum (Aktuelle Fragen der musikbezogenen Mittelalterforschung), 3: . Pages: 193-280.

Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: II, 101, 118, 146, 150 (transcription of all four pieces).

Besseler, Heinrich. 1949-79. Ars Nova, Ballade II, Cesaris, Chantilly Ms. 1047, Cordier [4 articles]. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st Edition, 1: . Pages: col. 717 (facsimile off. 213v).

Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3.  Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: I, 35, 25, 56, 58 (transcription of all four pieces); II, 13, 43, 48ff, 63f; IV, 82.

Guesnon, A. 1912. Le Moyen-âge. Pages: 94f.

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