The Ivrea Codex (Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, 115) is a parchmentmanuscript containing a significant body of 14th century French polyphonic music.
The codex contains motets, Mass movements, and a handful of virelais, chaces, and ballades, composed in the middle of the 14th century.[1] The notation is characteristic of the Ars Nova period. The manuscript is missing at least one gathering of Mass movements.[2]
The provenance of the codex is disputed. It was long thought to have been compiled in Avignon, the seat of the French Papacy, around 1370.[3] However, the musically important court of Gaston Fébus has also been suggested.[4] Most recently, however, Karl Kügle has asserted that the source was made in Ivrea itself, by musicians connected to the Savoyard court (possibly Jehan Pellicier), in the 1380s or 1390s.[5] None of these three interpretations has become universally accepted.
^Kügle, Karl, "Codex Ivrea, Bibl. cap. 115: A French Source 'Made in Italy'," Revista de Musicologia 13 (1990), p. 529.
^Heinrich Besseler, "Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters, Part I: Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts," Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 7 (1925), p. 194.
^Ursula Günther, "Problems of Dating in ars nova and ars subtilior," L'ars nova italiana del Trecento 4 (Certaldo: 1978), pp. 292-293.