B-Naet Transports de l'Echevinage de Namur, Reg. 8

Archives de l'Etat, Namur, Belgium

non-music manuscript with musical insertions: 1412-1423

Archive Archives de l'Etat, Namur, Belgium (B-Naet)
Shelfmark Transports de l'Echevinage de Namur, Reg. 8
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Numbering System None
Measurements unknown
Notations
  • stroke
Copyists
Provenance
  • Namur, Belgium
Contents 4 pieces from 3 composers
General Description

Manuscript registers 'van het Schependom' for 1412-1423, in blank spaces of which the clerk Noel de Fleurus added some music in 'stroke notation'. Two pieces, at the end of the 1421 & 1423 records, are recognisable as the tenors of polyphonic songs.

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Notation

tenors only, written in 'stroke notation'

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
200v Je suy si povre de liesse - Anonymous
Appears on: 200v
Genres: Chanson
200v Mon coeur pleure mais des yeux me fault rire -
Appears on: 200v
Genres: Chanson
General Note

tenor only; for transcription see VanBiezen; this article quotes Edward Stam (unpublished material) as remarking an error by the copyist, who starts with two flats but then writes subsequent measures a tone higher (as if in a key with no flats)

Item Bibliography

van Biezen, Jan, and Kees Vellekoop. 1984. Aspects of Stroke Notation in the Gruuthuse Manuscript and other sources. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 3-25. Pages: 4-5, 12-15.

Montellier, Ernest. 1938. Quatorze chansons du xve siècle extraites des archives namuroises. Commission de la vieille chanson populaire: Annuaire, 1939, 153-211. Antwerp. Pages: 19, 30, plate VI. Notes: facsimile, transcription.

200v Je ne suy gotte amoureux - Anonymous
Appears on: 200v
Genres: Chanson
General Note

incomplete

293v La belle se siet au piet de la tour -
Appears on: 293v
Genres: Chanson
General Note

tenor only; for transcription see VanBiezen

Item Bibliography

van Biezen, Jan, and Kees Vellekoop. 1984. Aspects of Stroke Notation in the Gruuthuse Manuscript and other sources. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 3-25. Pages: 4-5, 9-12, 14-15. Notes: transcription.

Montellier, Ernest. 1938. Quatorze chansons du xve siècle extraites des archives namuroises. Commission de la vieille chanson populaire: Annuaire, 1939, 153-211. Antwerp. Pages: 21, 36, plate VII. Notes: facsimile, transcription.

denotes primary source study

Schreurs, Eugeen. 1995. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages-Renaissance).  Leuven. Pages: 124.

van Biezen, Jan, and Kees Vellekoop. 1984. Aspects of Stroke Notation in the Gruuthuse Manuscript and other sources. Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 3-25. Pages: 4-5, 9-15. Notes: transcription, descritpion (partial).

Montellier, Ernest. 1938. Quatorze chansons du xve siècle extraites des archives namuroises. Commission de la vieille chanson populaire: Annuaire, 1939, 153-211. Antwerp. Pages: 19, 21, 30, 36, plates VI-VII. Notes: transcriptions, facsimile.

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