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Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale B. 1328 (1176), ff.1-7

The first of several parchment mss., now arbitrarily collected under one signature. This fragment contains 13 motets, one `Benedicamus' and one motet-like Credo. There are cc. in I-IV and Trem, motets by Machaut and Vitry.

INVENTORIES


  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.

  2. Enciclopedia della Musica, 4 vols, Milan: Ricordi, 1963-1964.

  3. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, p. 119ff.

  4. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley): 1970, pp. 15, 17-18, 19-22.

  5. LERCH, Irmgard. Fragmente aus Cambrai: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion einer Handschrift mit spätmittelalterlicher Polyphonie, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1987. Göttinger Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Band II.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1 (#1 and 2), Patrem ab eterno - Patrem omnipotentem - Talis est (motet))

  2. fol. 1v (#2a?), ...cum suspria tam potent... (motet))