Fragment consisting of only one bifolio of a once much larger collection. Contains an index (f.1r) and four motets (two incomplete), originally forming the outer bifolio of first quaternion of a manuscript of 48 folios (presumably six quaternions). Present note of ownership reads 'Iste liber motetorum pertinet capelle illustrissimi principis Philippi ducis Burgondie et comitis Flandrie'; last six words are in a later hand over erasure. Erased text partly legible under ultraviolet light: '… quem scripsit Michael [new line] de …ia, ejusdem principis capellanus, millesimo trecentesimo sexto'. Name replaced by 'Philippi' is illegible. Listed as no. 64 in the 1420 Dijon chapel inventory of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, as 'Item ung grant livre plat, noté, de plusieurs motez, virelaiz et balades qui commence: Colla jugo fidere [sic], et se fenit Bis dicitur'; possibly larger of two motet books listed in 1404 chapel inventory of Philip the Bold. Bifolio used for account book cover in 1512 by George de la Trémoïlle, who would have received MS as part of the property of Charles the Bold that Louis XI gave him in 1477. Bifolio remained property of Trémoïlle family until acquired by Bibliothèque Nationale de France c.1970.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT INVENTORY
Apart from the index, the source currently contains only folios 2 and 3 (see also under 'Foliation') = only (fragments of) four of the pieces listed. The full 'inventory' that is listed here under 'Inventory' follows the index and the numbers given therein (Roman numerals, corresponding to the openings). However, the only pieces actually contained in this source are the following (with the numbering following the modern pencil pagination, which is in square brackets): - [I], i.e. the verso of the index: Colla iugo / Bona condit / Libera me - [VIII]: Fauls semblant / Vidi Dominum - [VIII]: Qui es promesses / Et non est - unpaginated verso of [VIII]: O dira natio / Mens in nequitia

Ars Nova

each page ruled with fifteen 5-line staves

The two surviving folios have the following pencil foliation: - '2' (with [I] on the verso) - '3' and '[VIII]' (both on recto - nothing on verso) The 'foliation' in the full inventory follows the original index, which uses Roman numerals for the openings (i.e. not for folios)

Red and blue round initials with flourishes typical of northern-western Europe (France) during second half of 14th century

Index on f.1r provides incipits for 114 works (38 unica) including French and Latin motets, a troped Kyrie, Credos, chaces, chansons and a hymn. Despite apparent inconsistency in the first gathering, the items are indexed not by folio but by opening, using Roman numerals; the DIAMM inventory follows this convention. The index's first column on left is headed 'Motez ordonez et escriz ci apres', with continuation 'selon le nombre […]' erased, and it lists motets for the first 33 openings (1st four gatherings); second column motets for openings 34 to 45 (last two gatherings). A third column is headed 'Balades et rondeaus ci apres escriz par le nombre' and lists 35 chansons (ballades, rondeaux, a virelai and a hymn) out of sequence. The first song appears in the 10th opening. Differences in index hand and similarities with newer portions of note of ownership suggest that only the motets and some songs in the first four gatherings were copied by 1376 (BentTR). The motets and songs in 5th and 6th gatherings, and up to 12 songs in 3rd and 4th gatherings (from Dame de qui), were added after this date. Machaut's ballade Phiton le merveilleux serpent is listed twice, once in original index layer and again in newer layer, for successive openings.

1. f. i: Colla jugo subdere curias sectari / Bona condit cetera bonum libertatis / Libera me de sanguinibus - ?Philippe de Vitry
2. f. i: Apollinis eclipsatur nunquam lux / Zodiacum signis lustrantibus / In omnem terram / Per sanctam civitatem - Bernard de Cluny
3. f. ii: Ida capillorum matris / Portio nature, precellentis / Ante tronum trinitatis - Egidius de Pusiex
4. f. ii: Cum statua Nabugodonosor metallina - Philippe de Vitry
5. f. iii: Almifonus melos cum vocibus matrem / Rosa sine culpe spina per quam patet
6. f. iii: Trop est la dolour
7. f. iv: Hareu, hareu, le feu, leu, le feu d'ardant desir / Helas, ou sera pris confors pour moi / Obedians usque ad mortem - Guillaume de Machaut
8. f. iv: Maugré mon coeur, contre mon sentement / De ma doulour confortés doulcement / Quia amore langueo - Guillaume de Machaut
9. f. v-v : Lasse, comment oublieray le bel, le bon / Se j'aim mon loyal amy et il my / Pour quoy me bat mes mauris? Lassete! - Guillaume de Machaut
10. f. vi: Puisque pites
11. f. vii: Dame d'honneur
12. f. vii: Amer, Amours, est l'achoison pour quoy / Durement au coeur me blece / Dolor meus
13. f. viii: Qui es promesses de Fortune se fie / Ha, Fortune, trop suis mis loing de port / Et non est qui adjuvat - Guillaume de Machaut
14. f. viii: Amours qui a le povoir de moi faire recevoir / Fauls Semblant m'a deceü / Vidi Dominum - Guillaume de Machaut
15. f. ix: O dira natio peior / Mens in nequitia ponens - Guillaume de Machaut
16. f. ix: Se je chant mains que ne suel
17. f. x: Organizanter contine / Luceat laudis
18. f. x: Amis, tont dous vis
19. f. x: De tous le biens dont nature est ouvriere
20. f. xi: J'ai le chapelet
21. f. xi: Hareu hareu je la vois
22. f. xii: Post missarum sollempnia, divina / Post misse modulamina, post verbi
23. f. xii: Trop plus est belle que beauté / Beauté parée de valour, Desirs qui onques / Je ne sui mie certains d'avoir amie - Guillaume de Machaut
24. f. xiii: Petre Clemens tam re quam nomine / Lugentium siccentur occuli, plaudant - Philippe de Vitry
25. f. xiii: ...ce ne... qui me cong.... - Pierre des Molins
26. f. xiii: Vos leonis
27. f. xiii: De toutes flours n'avoit et de tous fruits / gastés estoit li seurplus et destruis - Guillaume de Machaut
28. f. xiv: Se paour d’umble astinance par douce atrenpance / Dieux, tant desir estre amé de m’amis / Concupisco
29. f. xiv: [Mass of Tournai]: Se grace n'est a mon maintien / Cum venerint miseri / Ite, missa est
30. f. xv: Plausu querulo
31. f. xv: Helas j'ai longtemps / Plain sui d'amere / Infelix
32. f. xvi: L'amoureuse flour d'esté qui en sa novolté / En l'estat d'amere tristour
33. f. xvi: En amer ha douce vie / car tant plaist la maladie - Guillaume de Machaut
34. f. xvii: …reo gencium
35. f. xvii: Se j'ai par la vostre
36. f. xviii: Douce playsence est d'amer loyalment, car autrement / Garison selon nature desire de sa doulor / Neuma quinti toni - Philippe de Vitry
37. f. xviii: Dame sans per qui piesa conparay
38. f. xix: Zolomina zelus virtutibus vitiorum / Nazarea que decora bonitate / Ave, Maria
39. f. xix: Iste confessor Domini / Iste confessor Domini / Iste confessor Domini
40. f. xix: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent / avoit la longueur d'un erpent - Guillaume de Machaut
41. f. xxix: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent / avoit la longueur d'un erpent - Guillaume de Machaut
42. f. xx: Thoma tibi
43. f. xx: O canenda vulgo per computa / Rex quem metrorum depingit / Rex regnum - Philippe de Vitry
44. f. xxi: Servant regem misericordia et veritas / O Philippe, prelustris Francorum / Rex regum et Dominus dominantium
45. f. xxi: De petit peu, de nient volenté - Guillaume de Machaut
46. f. xxi: Petre, Petre
47. f. xxi: De Fortune me doy pleindre et loer car quand premiers en commensay l’amer - Guillaume de Machaut
48. f. xxii: Apta caro plumis ingenii / Flos virginum, decus et species / Alma redemptoris mater - Pierre des Moulins
49. f. xxii: De Narcisus, home tres orguilleux / Si que depuis au mirour perilleus - Franciscus Andrieu
50. f. xxiii: Vos quid admiramini virgines / Gratissima virginis species quam decorat - Philippe de Vitry
51. f. xxiii: Se Lancelos
52. f. xxii-xxiv: Martyrum gemma latria, tyranni / Diligenter inquiramus Quintini preconia / A Christo honoratus - Guillaume de Machaut
53. f. xxiv: O que purificacio
54. f. xxv: L'autre jour
55. f. xxv: En ma dolour
56. f. xxv: Fiat intencio
57. f. xxv: Dangier refus
58. f. xxvi: Degentis vita quid prodest arte / Cum vix artidici promoti sint / Vera pudicitia
59. f. xxvi: Prosapie
60. f. xxvii: Ve constat
61. f. xxvii: Revien espoir
62. f. xxvii: Espoir me fuit
63. f. xxvii: Dame de qui toute ma joie / n’assés loer si comme il appartient - Guillaume de Machaut
64. f. xxviii: Li enseignement de Chaton, le sens / De touz les biens qu’Amors / Ecce tu pulchra es amica mea - Guillaume de Machaut
65. f. xxviii: A maint biau jeu
66. f. xxviii: Scariotis geniture vipereo / Iure quod in opere davitico / Superne matris gaudia
67. f. xxix: Quant la pree
68. f. xxix: Merci ou mort / Merci oit mort at longtemps desiré
69. f. xxix: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent / avoit la longueur d'un erpent - Guillaume de Machaut
70. f. xxx: O admirabile [commercium creator generis]
71. f. xxx: He doux regars
72. f. xxx: Honte, paour, doubtance de meffaire / large en refus et lente d'ottroy faire - Guillaume de Machaut
73. f. xxxi: Kyrie sponse
74. f. xxxi: Jour à jour la vie
75. f. xxxi: Inter amoenitatis / O livor anxiae
76. f. xxxi: Chelle dont ma joie
77. f. xxxii: Felix virgo, mater Christi / Inviolata genitrix, superbie grata / Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes - Guillaume de Machaut
78. f. xxxii: Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés - Guillaume de Machaut
79. f. xxxii: J'ai grant
80. f. xxxiii: Fortune mere a dolour et nourice / Ma dolour ne cesse pas ains est / Dolor meus
81. f. xxxiii: O crux preciosa
82. f. xxxiv: Fons totius superbie, Lucifer / O livoris feritas, que superna rogitas / Fera pessima - Guillaume de Machaut
83. f. xxxiv: Tuba sacre fidei proprie / In arboris empiro prospere / Virgo sum - ?Philippe de Vitry
84. f. xxxv: Je commence me canchon / Et je seray li segons / J'ai pastez chaud
85. f. xxxv: Adieu ma dame
86. f. xxxvi: Pater, ave
87. f. xxxvi: Et in terra pax
88. f. xxxvii: Patrem omnipotentem - Le Grant
89. f. xxxvii: Qui conques veilt d'amours ioir
90. f. xxxvii: Coeurs qui se sent
91. f. xxxvii: Laissiez parler
92. f. xxxvii: Ma dame m’a congié douné Quant son coeur a abandonné
93. f. xxxviii: Karissimi
94. f. xxxix: Beatius se servans liberat / Cum humanum sit peccare - Philippe de Vitry
95. f. xxxix: In virtute nominum / Decens carmen edere / Clamor meus - Philippe de Vitry
96. f. xl: Umblemens vos pri merchi
97. f. xli: Flos ortus inter lilia quorum radix / Celsa cedrus ysopus effecta / O quam magnus pontifex
98. f. xli: Beauté qui toutes autres pere envers moi / douceur fine a mon goust amere, corps digne - Guillaume de Machaut
99. f. xli: Deo per confidenciam
100. f. xlii: L'ardure qu'endure d'ardant desir / Tres dous espoir, espoir que sanz despoir / Ego rogavi Deum ut ignis iste
101. f. xliii: Mon chant en plaint, ma chancon en clamour / Qui dolereus onques n'a cogneü / Tristis est anima mea
102. f. xliii: A celui dont sui serviteur
103. f. xliv: Pura, placens, pulcra, pia / Parfundement plure Absolon
104. f. xliv: Credo. Patrem omnipotentem
105. f. xlv: Ça veils
106. f. xlv: Credo. Patrem omnipotentem - Sortes
107. f. xlv: Comme le cerf la fontennie desire
108. f. xlv: Fuies de moi - Heinrich Laufenberg
109. f. xlvi: Loyelon loielete
110. f. xlvi: Ja couars n'ara
111. f. xlvi: Dessus une fontenelle
112. f. xlvii: Se coeurs joians, jonnes, jolis et gentis / Rex beatus, confessor Domini / Ave
113. f. xlvii: Mulierum hodie major natus / Inter natos mulierum non surrexit
114. f. xlviii: Pastoribus
115. f. xlviii: Coeur gai
116. f. xlix: Nova stella

parchment

RISM B/IV 2: A parchment bifolio meas. 452x325 mm. and dated 1376 is all that now remains of a once central French 14th century source of motets and secular music. Fortunately, the recto of the first folio is an index to the complete manuscript, so that its original contents can be largely reconstructed (complete with concordances in BesselerS II, 236fF). Moreover, at the head of the same page are the words Iste liber motetorum pertinet capelle illustrissimi principis Philippi ducis Burgundie et comitis Flandrie. The duke of Burgundy was not the original owner, however, since his name replaces an earlier one that has been erased. Also erased is the reference to the scribe who wrote the ms in 1376. The name Michael de . . . ia could be read with the aid of ultra-violet light; it appears that he was chaplain to the prince whose name was erased. This Michael has been tentatively identified with a chaplain of king Charles V of France who was mentioned in some accounts concerned with the royal library in May, 1371. In 1420 SERRANT was no. 64 in the library of the duke of Burgundy at Dijon. Probably it was one of the many valuables which Louis XI gave to Georges de la Tremoîlle when he was made governor of Burgundy in 1477. Like many another musical codex of the late Middle Ages, however, even the few pages we have of SERRANT were only preserved because they were used as a cover for accounts. In the index, motets still take pride of place, and in fact, out of 114 pieces on SERRANT's 48 folios, 71 are motets. Many pieces occur in I-IV. 5 are by Philippe de Vitry and no less than 17 by Guillaume de Machaut. There are only 5 mass movements and 1 hymn. The typical Ars Nova notation employs up to 15 red five-line staves per page. Initials of the rather Gothic-looking but typically French 14th century script are blue or red with contrasting filigree.

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