THE PRODUCTION OF POLYPHONIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS: NEW EVIDENCE FOR STANDARDISED PROCEDURES
Gregorio Bevilacqua|David Catalunya|Nuria Torres
Modern understanding of the production and dissemination thirteenth-century polyphony is constrained by paucity manuscript sources that have been preserved in their entirety; panorama medieval essentially fragmentary. Some surviving fragments, however, were torn from lost books to some extent comparable well-known extant codices. The fragment binding 6528 Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid illustrative this respect. This displays a number codicological musical features are strikingly similar those Florence (F). Both share format mise-en-page, make use styles script, notation pen-work decoration, transmit pieces same order, present virtually identical readings. thus provides new evidence for standardised polyphonic Paris. study detailed account fragment’s philological features, explores hypothesis it originated Parisian workshop produced F.
Early Music History