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Marchetus de Padua

Lucidarium, tractatus decimus

Period: 14th

Source: The Lucidarium of Marchetto of Padua: A Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary, ed. and trans. by Jan W. Herlinger (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1985), 368.

Electronic version prepared by Stephen E. Hayes E, Peter M. Lefferts C, and Thomas J. Mathiesen A for the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, 1990.

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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[368]1. INCIPIT TRACTATUS DECIMUS CAPITULUM PRIMUM QUID SIT MENSURA IN MUSICA PLANA SIVE MENSURATA

2. Mensura in musica est ordo cantuum mensuratorum secundum sua nomina et figuras:

3. secundum sua nomina, ut est quilibet cantus planus, qui secundum suum nomen mensuram habet, supra vel infra quam non potest,

4. ut est perfectus, imperfectus, plusquamperfectus, mixtus, et commixtus;

5. secundum vero suas figuras, ut est quilibet cantus tempore mensuratus,

6. de qua mensura per nos alibi est tractandum.

7. Sed quia quilibet cantus, sive sit perfectus sive imperfectus et cetera, de aliquo modorum existit,

8. iccirco quid sit modus et quot sint et qui et quomodo variantur necessario est videndum.

9. FINIT TRACTATUS DECIMUS

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