Set of 9 parchment bifolios removed from bindings in the Archives de la Marne and stemming from a codex of the school of Notre Dame in Paris. The number of a gathering has been preserved in the middle of the last folio, namely XXIX, which suggests this was originally a large codex. The 18 folios now extant come from three different gatherings : f. 1-4 formed the middle of a gathering, f. 5-6 the second or third bifolio of a gathering, and f. 7-18 a complete gathering of 12 folios. Polyphony is mainly in the third gathering. Probably written in the Paris area for the monastery of Marchiennes.

square Notre Dame

preservation of the motets in three-part score is indicative of an early date.

9 red five-line staves per page

relatively modern foliation at t.r.r.; does not always correspond to the present arrangement of the pages: the present f. 7-14v are numbered from 11-14 and then 7-10.

Initials are in red-blue and vice versa

parchment

RISM B/IV 1: A set of 9 parchment bifolios removed from bindings in the Archives de la Marne and stemming from a codex of the school of Notre Dame in Paris. The ms meas. 152 x 112 mm. and is notated in square notes of Notre Dame type on 9 red five-line staves per page. Initials are as usual in red-blue and vice versa. The number of a gathering has been preserved in the middle of the last folio, namely XXIX, which suggests this was originally a large codex. The 18 folios now extant come from three different gatherings : f. 1-4 formed the middle of a gathering, f. 5-6 the second or third bifolio of a gathering, and f. 7-18 a complete gathering of 12 folios. It should be noted that the relatively modern foliations at t.r.r. do not always correspond to the present arrangement of the pages: the present f. 7-14v are numbered from 11-14 and then 7-10. The polyphony is mainly in the third gathering, the monodies consisting of sequences or motet voices. The date of the ms has been established as some time during the second quarter of the 13th century. It was probably written in the Paris area for the monastery of Marchiennes. The preservation of the motets in three-part score is indicative of an early date. There are no organa in the fragments which remain of this source, but in a large codex these may well have been lost entirely. The importance of the Chalons fragments lies in their Ile-de-France origin, for many of the Notre Dame sources come from outside France, W2 from Scotland, Ma from Spain, etc.

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