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Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. latines 2444

A composite ms. made up of liturgical fragments, many of them with music, dating from the 10th - 18thC. 4 motets of the Ars Nova are found on a bifolio 48-49v, 3 concordant in I-IV.

INVENTORY

Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, pp. 199-200.

CONTENTS


  1. fol. 48, In virtute nominum - Decens carmen - [Clamor meus] (motet))

  2. fol. 48v, O canenda vulgo per computa - Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura - Rex regum (Philippe de Vitry))

  3. fol. 49, Flos ortus inter lilia - Celsa cedrus - [Quam magnus pontifex] (motet))

  4. fol. 49, Beatius... se servans liberat - Cum humanum sit peccare (motet))


LITERATURE

REANEY, Gilbert. 'New sources of Ars nova music', Musica Disciplina, XIX (1965): 53-68.

CONCORDANCES

1.Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale 1328 (14v, Flos ortus inter lilia - Celsa cedrus - [Quam magnus pontifex]).
2.Durham, Cathedral Library C.I.20 (337v\2, O canenda vulgo per computa - Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura - Rex regum).
3.Florence, San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest] (62v, Flos ortus inter lilia - Celsa cedrus - [Quam magnus pontifex]).
4.Fribourg, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire Z 260 (86v, O canenda vulgo per computa - Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura - Rex regum).
5.Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare 115 (9v-10, Flos ortus inter lilia - Celsa cedrus - [Quam magnus pontifex]; 55, O canenda vulgo per computa - Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura - Rex regum; 55v, In virtute nominum - Decens carmen - [Clamor meus]).
6.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle) (19v-20, O canenda vulgo per computa - Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura - Rex regum; 38v-39, In virtute nominum - Decens carmen - [Clamor meus]; 38v-39, Beatius... se servans liberat - Cum humanum sit peccare; 40v-41, Flos ortus inter lilia - Celsa cedrus - [Quam magnus pontifex]).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. Philippe de Vitry 1291-1361: RD 77 095: O canenda vulgo per computa; Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura; Rex regum; O canenda vulgo per computa; Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura; Rex regum; O canenda vulgo per computa; Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura; Rex regum;.
  2. Philippe de Vitry and the Ars Nova: CD-SAR 49: O canenda vulgo per computa; Rex quem metrorum depingit prima figura; Rex regum; In virtute nominum; Decens carmen; [Clamor meus]; Flos ortus inter lilia; Celsa cedrus; [Quam magnus pontifex];.