# Ivrea Codex

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Excerpt from the 14th-century *Ivrea Codex* containing the tenor voice of [Philippe de Vitry](/source/Philippe_de_Vitry)'s Douce playsence est d’amer loyalment/Garison selon nature desire de sa doulor.

The ***Ivrea Codex*** (*Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, 115*) is a [parchment](/source/Parchment) [manuscript](/source/Manuscript) containing a significant body of 14th century French [polyphonic](/source/Polyphony) music.

The codex contains [motets](/source/Motets), [Mass](/source/Mass_(music)) movements, and a handful of [virelais](/source/Virelai), [chaces](/source/Caccia_(music)), and [ballades](/source/Ballade_(forme_fixe)), composed in the middle of the 14th century.[1] The [notation](/source/Musical_notation) is characteristic of the [Ars Nova](/source/Ars_Nova) period. The manuscript is missing at least one gathering of Mass movements.[2]

The provenance of the codex is disputed. It was long thought to have been compiled in [Avignon](/source/Avignon), the seat of the [French Papacy](/source/Western_Schism), around 1370.[3] However, the musically important court of Gaston Fébus has also been suggested.[4] Most recently, however, Karl Kügle has asserted that the source was made in [Ivrea](/source/Ivrea) itself, by musicians connected to the [Savoyard](/source/Savoy) court (possibly [Jehan Pellicier](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jehan_Pellicier&action=edit&redlink=1)), in the 1380s or 1390s.[5] None of these three interpretations has become universally accepted.

All of the music in the codex is anonymous, but attributions have been made on the basis of concordances to [Philippe de Vitry](/source/Philippe_de_Vitry), [Guillaume de Machaut](/source/Guillaume_de_Machaut), [Magister Heinricus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magister_Heinricus&action=edit&redlink=1), [Bararipton](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bararipton&action=edit&redlink=1), [Depansis](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Depansis&action=edit&redlink=1), [Matheus de Sancto Johanne](/source/Matheus_de_Sancto_Johanne), [Orles](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orles&action=edit&redlink=1), [Sortes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sortes_(composer)&action=edit&redlink=1), and [Loys](/source/Loys). One piece attributed to [Chipre](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chipre&action=edit&redlink=1) is probably of [Cypriot](/source/Music_of_Cyprus) provenance. Kügle notes that *[ars subtilior](/source/Ars_subtilior)*-style compositions are absent from the source;[6] however, sources without *ars subtilior* compositions far outnumber those containing these pieces, so it is hard to read particular significance into this statement.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## References and further reading

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** "Sources, MS, VII: French Polyphony 1300-1420", in Grove Music Online (Accessed October 11, 2006), [(subscription access)](http://www.grovemusic.com) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/) 2008-05-16 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Kügle, Karl, "Codex Ivrea, Bibl. cap. 115: A French Source 'Made in Italy'," *Revista de Musicologia 13* (1990), p. 529.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Heinrich Besseler, "Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters, Part I: Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts," *[Archiv für Musikwissenschaft](/source/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_Musikwissenschaft)* 7 (1925), p. 194.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Ursula Günther](/source/Ursula_G%C3%BCnther), "Problems of Dating in *ars nova* and *ars subtilior*," *L'ars nova italiana del Trecento 4* (Certaldo: 1978), pp. 292-293.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Kügle, *op. cit.*, pp. 527-553.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Kügle, *op. cit.*, p. 552.

v t e Ars nova Composers F. Andrieu Denis Le Grant Magister Franciscus Grimace Jehan de Lescurel Guillaume de Machaut P. des Molins Jehan Vaillant Philippe de Vitry* Theorists Johannes de Muris Sources Chantilly Codex Ivrea Codex Roman de Fauvel See also Music of the Trecento (Italian ars nova) Old Hall Manuscript Medieval music Early music ← Ars antiqua Ars subtilior → Also music theorist* ← Trouvère Category

v t e Medieval music manuscript sources Scores Bamberg Codex British Library, Add MS 29987 Chantilly Codex Codex Faenza Engelberg Codex Eton Choirbook Florence Manuscript Las Huelgas Codex Ivrea Codex King's Manuscript Laudario di Cortona Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Magnus Liber Modena Codex Montpellier Codex Old Hall Manuscript Pepys Manuscript Psalter Puy Manuscript Ritson Manuscript Robertsbridge Codex Roman de Fauvel Rossi Codex Selden Carol Book Codex Speciálník Squarcialupi Codex Trinity Carol Roll Winchester Troper Worcester Fragments Theory Ars cantus mensurabilis De Mensurabili Musica The Berkeley Treatise

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