F-Pnm Français 1586 (Machaut C)

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)
Shelfmark Français 1586 (Machaut C)
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Surface Mixed Paper and Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 295 x 215 mm
Other Identifiers
  • RISM: F-Pn 1586
  • RISM: MachC
  • Other catalogues/source: C
  • olim (Former shelfmark): F-Pn fonds français 1586
Notations
  • Ars Nova
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Provenance
  • Paris, France
Contents Contains 95 compositions from 1 composer.
General Description

The source, though not as comprehensive as other complete Machaut manuscripts like Pn 1584 and Pn 22545-22546, contains one of the oldest arrangements of the contents known. The musical part begins at f. 148v and is divided into two sections, the first of which includes 23 monodic Virelais, 16 polyphonic Ballades and 9 monodic lays. In the second section, Ballades, Rondeaux, Virelais and lays appear together without much semblance of order from f. 186v to f. 206. Finally 19 motets complete the codex from f. 206v-f. 225. The total number of polyphonic compositions in this source is 19 motets, 10 Rondeaux, 26 Ballades (1 polyphonic Ballade is here preserved with Cantus only, but included in the number 26) and 1 Virelai (again only the Cantus).The writing is in 2 columns.

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Binding

leather over pulp boards with gilt tooling. The spine is red with gilt tooling and several crowns over the letter N (= Napoleon).

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Notation

Ars Nova: sometimes written in 2 columns and sometimes straight across the page. Many accidentals

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Foliation

18th century foliation in thick ink at t.r.r. The paper flyleaves and the last two parchment leaves are unnumbered

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Foliation

1-226

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Decoration

beautifully illuminated: even the initials use gold frequently as well as red and blue

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Surface

ii paper + 226 parchment + ii paper

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DIAMM Note

Scribes; A; B (Motets written by Scribe B)

Establishment patron: Bonne of Luxembourg originally; finished for King John II (?)

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RISM Description

RISM B/IV 2: A parchment manuscript dating from c. 1400 which meas. 295 x 215 mm. and contains 226 folios (the last unnumbered and blank) + 2 blank, unnumbered paper flyleaves at each end belonging to the 18th century binding. The binding itself is of leather over pulp boards with gilt tooling. The spine is red with gilt tooling and several crowns over the letter N (= Napoleon). The foliation, which dates from the same period as the binding, is in thick ink at t.r.r. This source is beautifully illuminated, and even the initials use gold frequently as well as red and blue colours. The writing is in 2 columns, while the Ars Nova notation is sometimes written in 2 columns and sometimes straight across the page. Accidentals are plentiful. The source is particularly interesting because, although it is not as comprehensive as such other complete Machaut manuscripts as Pn 1584 and Pn 22545-22546, it nevertheless contains one of the oldest arrangements of the contents known. The musical part of the codex, which begins at f. 148v and goes through to the end, is divided into two sections, the first of which includes 23 monodic Virelais, 16 polyphonic Ballades and 9 monodic lays. In the second section, Ballades, Rondeaux, Virelais and lays appear together without much semblance of order from f. 186v to f. 206. Finally 19 motets complete the codex from f. 206v-f. 225. The total number of polyphonic compositions in this source is 19 motets, 10 Rondeaux, 26 Ballades (1 polyphonic Ballade is here preserved with Cantus only, but included in the number 26) and 1 Virelai (again only the Cantus).

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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.

Parrish, Carl. 1957. The Notation of Medieval Music. Pages: pl. XLIV (facsimile of Pn 1586 f. 47v).

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.

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.

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.

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 (no facsimiles from Pn 1586.

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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David Chappuis

Friday, 8 July, 2022

The ballad "Je ne cuit pas" is in folios 163v-164

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