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Marchetus de Padua

Lucidarium, tractatus decimus

Period: 14th

Source: Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra potissimum, 3 vols., ed. Martin Gerbert (St. Blaise: Typis San-Blasianis, 1784; reprint ed., Hildesheim: Olms, 1963), 3:100.

Electronic version prepared by Bradley Jon Tucker E, Angela Mariani C, and Thomas J. Mathiesen A for the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, 1993.

Concordances
Lexicon musicum Latinum:
Marchettus de Padua: Lucidarium in arte musicae planae
MARCH. luc.
RISM:
A-SP Cod. 135/6 (29.4.4), 21v (Extraits)
B-Br II 785, 15-38v
B-Br II 4144, 1-41
CH-E 689, 1-44
E-Sc 5-2-25, 5-20v
E-Sc 5-2-25, 76v-77v, 124-128 (Extraits)
F-SDI 42, 1-33v
GB-Ob Canon. Misc. 42, 184-185 (Extraits)
I-BREs D 21, 185v-186v (Extraits)
I-CATc D 39, 157-189
I-Fl Conv. Soppr. 388, 34v-52v (Extraits)
I-Fr 734, 74-101
I-Ma D. 5 inf., 52-77v
I-Ma I. 20 inf., 36v-39 (Extraits)
I-PEc 1013, 5-45v
I-PIu 606 (IV.9), I/1-50
I-Rvat lat. 5322, 1-48
I-Rvat Reg. lat. 1146, 7-8 (Extraits)
I-Sc L.V.30, 91v-119
I-TRE without shelfmark, 15-32v
I-Vnm Lat. Cl. VIII.85 (3579), 1-10 (Extraits)
US-Cn Case Ms. 54.1, 10v-33
US-Wc ML 171 J 6 Case, hv-47
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[100]Incipit tractatus X.

Caput I.

Quid sit mensura in musica plana, sive mensurata.

Mensura in musica est ordo cantuum mensuratorum secundum sua nomina et figuras: secundum sua nomina, ut est quilibet cantus planus, qui secundum suum nomen mensuram habet, supra vel infra quam non potest, ut est perfectus, imperfectus, plusquamperfectus, mixtus et commixtus: secundum vero suas figuras, ut est quilibet cantus tempore mensuratus, de qua mensura per nos alibi est tractatum. Sed quia quilibet cantus sive sit perfectus sive imperfectus et caetera de aliquo modorum existit, idcirco quid sit modus, et quot sint, et quomodo variantur, necessario est videndum.

Finit tractatus decimus.

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