Chansonnier Cordiforme Explained

Chansonnier cordiforme
Location:	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. Rothschild 2973
Also Known As:	Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu
Type:	Chansonnier
Date:	c.1475^[1]
Place Of Origin:	France, Savoy
Language(S):	French
Patron:	Jean de Montchenu, Bishop of Agen then of Viviers
Material:	Parchment, ink, tempera, gold
Size:	72 ff.; codex: 22×16 cm, leaves: 18.5×16 cm^[2]
Format:	Cordiform
Contents:	Music
Illumination(S):	2 miniatures, 254 illuminated initials; foliate borders with grotesques, all in colours and gold

The Chansonnier Cordiforme (1470s), or Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, is a cordiform (heart-shaped) music manuscript, Collection Henri de Rothschild MS 2973, held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France.^[3]

The manuscript was commissioned in Savoy between 1460 and 1477 by canon Jean de Montchenu, later Bishop of Agen (1477) and Bishop of Vivier (1478–1497). An edition was prepared by Geneviève Thibault de Chambure in 1952, and the complete manuscript was recorded by Anthony Rooley and the Consort of Musicke.^[4]

Songs

The chansonnier comprises 43 songs by Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys and others including several unica.

External links

• Cordiforme Chansonnier; Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu Source Description and Bibliography at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
  • Facsimile edition: Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rothschild 2973 (979 a) . BnF Archives et Manuscrits . 16 Feb 2022 .
2. The Chansonnier Cordiforme . Kottick . Edward L. . Journal of the American Musicological Society . 20 . 1 . 1967 . 10–27. 10.2307/830452 . 830452 .
3. The music of the Chansonnier Cordiforme, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Rothschild 2973 . Edward Leon . Kottick . 1963 . PhD . University of North Carolina.
4. Rooley, Anthony . The Consort of Musicke . Le Chansonnier Cordiforme . 3 CDs . Decca L’Oiseau-Lyre . 2009.