[Miscellany containing treatises on music, with polyphonic examples]
Contributors: Marchetto, da Padova, active 1305-1326; Carapetyan Collection
Published: 1509
Language: lat
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Motets; French Part songs; Italian Part songs; Music; Manuscripts; Music theory; History
Notes: Contains treatises on music and one on calligraphy. The music treatises, of which the first is Lucidarium in arte musicae planae by Marchettus of Padua, concern plain song, counterpoint, mensuration, and proportional notation. Most polyphonic examples illustrate musical proportions; some are attributed to Stochem, Agricola, and Busnois.

Copied in 1509 (date on f. 45v) ; 5 pieces added slightly later ; canons added in 1552 (date on f. 138v).

Main corpus copied in Venice in 1509 by Johannes Materanensis ; later owned by Raffaele Sozi of Perugia.

RISM III/6, p. 551-3.

RISM IV/5, p. 335-7.

Census-catalogue of manuscript sources of polyphonic music 1400-1550 ; III, 44 (PerBC 1013).