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Cortois et sages et a tous doit plasir

Three-voice ballade by Egidius de Francia

Sources

Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 36 (3/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 54 (3/1).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 57 (MOe5.24).
2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 41 (MOe5.24).
3. French Secular Music. Ballades and Canons, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XX, p. 37 (Pn6771).

Literature

1. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The manuscript Chantilly, Musee Conde, 1047', Musica Disciplina, VIII (1954), pp. 68-69.
2. HOPPIN, Richard H. 'Some remarks a propos of Pic. (B.N. coll. de Picardie vol. 67, folio 67)', Revue belge de musicologie, X (1956), p. 110.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, pp. 225, 253-256.
4. CLERCX, Suzanne. 'Johannes Ciconia et la chronologie des manuscrits italiens, Mod. 568 et Lucca (Mn)', Les Colloques de Wègimont II, 1955, Paris: Sociètè d'Edition "Les belles lettres", 1959, p. 112., p. 112.
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11. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 76.

Text

Cortois et sages et a tous doit plasir
le droit signor qui per eleccion
et non par force, mes par comun sentir,
mis est en siege de benediction.
Estre doné a tous en union.
Nulz contradire ne le puet par droiture:
Sains Peres est qui de tous a la cure

Translation

Courtly and well-educated and pleasing to all should be
the rightful lord who, by election,
and not by force, but by common opinion
is set in the seat of benediction,
to be given to all in unity.
None by right can contradict him:
It is Saint Peter who has the care of everyone.
Text revision and translation © Robyn Smith