Ch266

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note: of the various Corpus Christi texts and melodies that may have been known to the compiler of Ch266, only two are formally compatible with ‘Ave Corpus Christ natum’: ‘Verbum supernum prodiens’ and (the more likely and widely known) ‘Lauda Sion salvatorem’.

note: on Piero & family see WilsonHM, passim, and laude by Piero di Mariano Muzi. In Ch266, see also 66r: ‘A laude sia del Padre onipotente, traslazione del Vangelo del vitello sagginato, Piero di Mariano borsaio fiorentino’ [ottava rima].

note: ‘Benotto’, frequently misread in secondary literature as ‘Benolio’, is surely a reference to the northern singer and composer Benoctus de Francia (Benoit, Benottus, Benedictus Sirede), who was a singing master for the laudesi company of Orsanmichele beginning in 1436, and after 1439 the first chapel master at the Florentine cathedral until he left Florence in 1448; WilsonMM, 84-5; Pamela Starr, NGD, ‘Benoit’.

note: Ch266 ‘Ballata’

note: cc. incipit probably refers to ‘Virgo Maria beata/de’ peccator conforto’, in many other cc. sources, including Gall3 (without a cc indication).

note: GallicoRM, 139, 191 (‘Vidi la forosetta’). CortP contains Ct part to a quodlibet w/Fortuna disperata, texted with ‘Vidi la forosetta in un boschetto’. The same incipit is transmitted in the altus of the ‘Fortuna disperata’ quodlibet in M164-7; music ed. BecheriniT, 89 & JeppesenF, iii, 57.

note: CattinSq, 250; WilsonSC, 74; Diederichs, 63. Ed. in PMFC4, n. 19.