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One of the complete Machaut manuscripts, and perhaps the earliest in the Bibliothèque Nationale. The polyphonic compositions are 2 lays, 23 motets, 39 Ballades, 21 Rondeaux, 8 Virelais, the mass and the hocket.
F-Pnm Français 1584 (Machaut A)
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France
manuscript of polyphony: 14th century
| Archive | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Paris, France (F-Pnm) |
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| Shelfmark | Français 1584 (Machaut A) |
| Image Availability | The images on this record are linked using IIIF. |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 306 x 220 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 144 compositions from 1 composer. |
General Description
Binding
Typical red morocco of the Bibliothèque du Roi with wooden boards beneath and gilt tooling on the covers and spine. The paper leaves belong to the 18th century binding, as does the paper index of 8 pages inserted between f. 493 and 494
Liminary Note
Les amours de Guillaume Machaut en vielles rithmes
Notation
Ars Nova: occasional red notes and frequent dots and accidentals.
Ruling
10 red five-line staves per page; 8 staves per page in the lays, due to double text underlay
Foliation
Original foliation in red ink at t.m.r. to 494 folios. Folios A-G are original pages, but they have no old foliation, only a modern one in ink at t.r.r. Paper leaves are unnumbered.
Foliation
1-494
Decoration
typical French minuscule of the period and there are many miniatures. Only three of them employ colours other than a spot of red (also blue and gold). Initials, miniatures and filigree are mainly written with pen and ink.
Index
Folios A-G are original pages comprising the old index and the Prologue to Machaut's works. Paper index of 8 pages inserted between f. 493 and 494.
Surface
VII parchment + i paper + ii paper + 494 parchment + iv paper + i paper
DIAMM Note
Scribes: A (fols. Dr-Ev); B (Fv-494v); several correctors
RISM Description
RISM B/IV 2: A 14th century parchment manuscript meas. 306 x 220 mm. and containing 494 folios with an original foliation in red ink at t.m.r. + f. A-G at the beginning + 1 unnumbered paper and 2 unnumbered parchment leaves at the front, and 4 unnumbered parchment and 1 unnumbered paper leaves at the back. Folios A-G are original pages comprising the old index and the Prologue to Machaut's works, but they have no old foliation, only a modern one in ink at t.r.r. The paper leaves belong to the 18th century binding, as does the paper index of 8 pages inserted between f. 493 and 494. The binding is the typical red morocco of the Bibliothèque du Roi with wooden boards beneath and gilt tooling on the covers and spine. As the siglum indicates, this is one of the complete Machaut manuscripts, and perhaps the earliest in the Bibliothèque Nationale. The script is a typical French minuscule of the period and there are many miniatures. Only three of them employ colours other than a spot of red (here there are also blue and gold). Initials, miniatures and filigree are mainly written with pen and ink. The notation is of typical Ars Nova type with 10 red five-line staves per page. There are occasional red notes and frequent dots and accidentals. In the lays there are 8 staves per page, due to the double text underlay. The polyphonic compositions in Pn 1584 amount to 2 lays, 23 motets, 39 Ballades, 21 Rondeaux, 8 Virelais, the mass and the hocket.
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F-Pnm Français 1584 (Machaut A)
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Maxwell, Sheila Kate. 2009. Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse. University of Glasgow, PhD.
Earp, Lawrence M. 1995. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research. New York and London: Garland.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1959. Musica Ficta in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Les Colloques de Wegimont II-1955, L'Ars nova: Recueil d'études sur la musiquedu XIVe siècle , 196ff. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
Günther, Ursula. 1958. The fourteenth-century motet and its development. Musica Disciplina, 12: 27-58. Pages: 27ff.
Günther, Ursula. 1957. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestellt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeaux von Guillaume de Machaut sowie datierbaren Kantilenensätzen seiner Zeitgenossen und dierekten Nachfolger. University of Hamburg, Ph.D. dissertation.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1956. Voices and Instruments in the Music of Guillaume de Machaut. Revue belge de musicologie, 10: 3-17and93-104.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1955-56. The Lais of Guillaume de Machaut and Their Background. Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 82: 15-31,discussion31-32.
Machabey, Armand. 1955. Guillaume de Machault. 2 vols.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1955. The Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut: Melody, Rhythm and Form. Acta Musicologica, 27: 40ff.
Hughes, Dom Anselm, and Gerald Abraham (editors). 1954, 1957-. New Oxford History of Music II, III & IV. 3 vols. London/New York/Toronto. Pages: Reaney, 1-15.
Schrade, Leo (editor). 1954 -1956. The Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. 3 vols. Pages: II—III (complete transcription of Machaut's musical works).
Reaney, Gilbert. 1953. Fourteenth Century Harmony and the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 7: 129ff.
Reaney, Gilbert. 1952. A Chronology of the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais Set to Music by Guillaume de Machaut. Musica Disciplina, 6: 33ff.
Gombosi, Otto Johannes. 1950. Machaut's Messe Notre-Dame. Musical Quarterly, 36: 204ff.
Gennrich, Friedrich. 1948. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des 14. Jahrhunderts und der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts. Pages: pl. IV (facsimile of Pn 1584 21).
Machabey, Armand (editor). 1948. Guillaume de Machault: Messe Notre-Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.
Perle, G. 1948. Integrative Devices in the Music of Machaut. Musical Quarterly, 34: 169ff.
Apel, Willi. 1942. (4th ed., 1949). The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Pages: 343 ff; 353 and 357 (facsimiles of Pn 1584 46 and 41).
Reese, Gustave. 1940. Music in the Middle Ages: With an introduction on the music of ancient times. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Pages: Ch. 12.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1929. Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte I, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Pages: 267ff.
Ludwig, Friedrich (editor). 1926-9. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke, 1-3. Leipzig: Publikationen älterer Musik. Pages: I, III and IV.
Ludwig, Friedrich. 1910), 101ff; Die mehrstimmige Musik des 14. Jahrhunderts in <em>SIMG</em> IV (1902. Die mehrstimmige Musik des 11. und 12. Jahrhunderts. Bericht über den III. Kongreß der IMG, 1909: 16ff. Pages: 21, 27ff, 33f, 36ff.
Hoepffner, Ernest. 1908-1921. Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. 3 vols. Pages: II, appendix (Ludwig's critical transcription of the music from the Remede de Fortune = Pn 22545 1-3).
Wolf, Johannes. 1904; Reprinted: Hildesheim, 1965. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen. 3 vols. Leipzig. Pages: II, nos. XIII-XXVI.
Chichmaref, V (editor). [1909]. Guillaume de Machaut: Poésies lyriques. Edition compléte en deux parties, avec introduction, glossaire et fac-similés publiée sous les auspices de la Faculté d'Histoire et de Philologie de Saint-Pétersbourg. Paris: Champion. Pages: complete edition of Machaut's lyric poems with and without music.
Van, Guillaume de. None. Guglielmi de Mascaudio: Messe Notre Dame. Pages: transcription of the mass.
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