Anonymous music scribe Lab-C / Ric-A

Biography

Music scribe whose hand can be identified as the main scribe of the chansonnier I-Fr MS 2794 (Ric; scribe Ric-A), who also copied 5 pieces in the chansonnier Lab (Lab2) :

[85] ff. 101v-102r Antoine Busnoys - A une dame j'ay fait veu
Stage: Lab3 / Scribe: Lab-C / Decoration: øI
[86] ff. 102v-103r Anonymous - Je ne me puis voir a mon aise
Stage: Lab3 / Scribe: Lab-C / Decoration: øI
[87] ff. 103v-104r [Hayne van Ghizeghem] ; Jean Fresneau - De vous servir m'est prins envye
Stage: Lab3 / Scribe: Lab-C / Decoration: øI
[89] ff. 105v-106r Jean de Okeghem - Les desleaulx ont la saison
Stage: Lab3 / Scribe: Lab-C / Decoration: øI
[98] ff. 120v-121r Jean de Okeghem - Je n'ay dueil que je ne suis morte
Stage: Lab3 / Scribe: Lab-C / Decoration: ø

He interestingly copied twice the song De vous servir with important variants between the two witnesses. P. W. Christoffersen suggests that the copy in Ric may have been copied before the one in Lab2.

Fiala David

Information

Roles

Copyist/Scribe
Music copyist
Gender

Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

Musical source

Music copyist
circa 1480
Unknown (Unknown)

Associated sources

2 in database

[CENSUS FlorR 2794 ; Fallows CPS: FR2794] I-Fr MS 2794 Copyist/Scribe
[DIAMM: US-Wc M2.1.L25 Case ; Fallows CPS: Lab ; JONAS: 78984] US-Wc M2.1.L25 Case Copyist/Scribe

[CENSUS FlorR 2794 ; Fallows CPS: FR2794] I-Fr MS 2794 Copyist/Scribe
[DIAMM: US-Wc M2.1.L25 Case ; Fallows CPS: Lab ; JONAS: 78984] US-Wc M2.1.L25 Case Copyist/Scribe

Variant names

No variant.

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[Christoffersen 2012]

Christoffersen, P. W., 2012, The MS Florence 2794 and the ‘Loire Valley’ chansonniers http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/NOTES/Flo2794art.html (consulté le 27 avril 2024).

[Rifkin 1973]

Rifkin, J., 1973, Scribal Concordances for Some Renaissance Manuscripts in Florentine Libraries, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 26, p. 305‑326 https://www.jstor.org/stable/830669 (consulté le 1 juin 2025).

[Rifkin 1976]

Rifkin, J., 1976, Pietrequin Bonnel and Ms. 2794 of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 29, p. 284‑296 https://www.jstor.org/stable/831021 (consulté le 1 juin 2025).

Projects

The Loire Valley Chansonniers in debate

Contributors

David Fiala - Project manager ; Biography author

Clemens Goldberg - Scientific editor

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