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This music is transmitted anonymously in 4 music manuscripts (CPS Fallows 1999, p. 79), two with this poem by Molinet (Dij and Leu), one with the incipit "Fuyh schwamz" alone (Col/Sev) and one with heading "Der fochss schwantcz" and latin text "O lux luminis" (Glog).
Five poetic manuscripts and one print (Jardin de Plaisance) transmit the poem. It was copied amongst a series of "aucuns rondeaulx faictz par Molinet" in F-Pn Français 1721, which lead to its inclusion in Dupire's edition of Molinet's poetic works (Molinet FD 1936, p. 877).
D. Fallows considered that the rondeau text which used to be known only from Dij fit "unconvincingly" the music (CPS, p. 731). Since the discovery of another witness with the same poem in Leu, P. W. Christoffersen reinforced this view (“Aime qui vouldra,” <http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/CH/CH128.html>), arguing that the music would better fit a decasyllabic rondeau quatrain than this pentasyllabic rondeau cinquain. R. O'Sullivan's discussion of the song (O'Sullivan 2024, p. 104-107) made clear that it had two distinct transmission paths: Dij and Leu on one side, Glog and Col on the other. It acknowledged the unsatisfactory distribution of Molinet's rondeau cinquain with the music and suggested that several common features with Caron’s Helas que pourra devenir, which the heading "Der fochß schwantß", in which "fochß" was then replaced by "seyden", in Glog, might betray a common orgin of the two songs, though Aime qui vouldra would rather be the work of "a follower of Caron" than Caron himself.

N. Gombert also composed a chanson for five voices on the same poem, without any link to the earlier setting.

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• [DIAMM: B-AF MS 1 ; Fallows CPS: LC ; IDEM: Leuven, Alamire Foundation, ms. 1] B-AF MS 1 [14]
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• [DIAMM: F-Dm MS 517 ; Fallows CPS: Dij ; JONAS: 18071] F-Dm MS 517 [118]
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