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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 7372

Owner institution

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Date

1350 - 1430

Wood-bound small volume in paper consisting of 78 folios plus initial fly-leaf.

Measures: 150 x 240 mm.

Folios gathered in seven folders of ten leaves each, plus one final folder of eight leaves.

Catchwords by the text-hand are given at the bottom of the last verso of each folder.

Margins contain numerous diagrams and figures. On fols. 1 to 5 there are also marginal notes by the copyist.

The text is written in long lines (40-50 per folium) by a single Italian hand in an early 15th c. cursive script.

The text breaks off at the beginning of fol. 72r. Fols. 72v-78v are blank.

The text lacks the litterae notabiliores.

 

  • According to Federici Vescovini  (1979) the spelling of some words (paxio, callefactio, etc.) shows the Paduan origin of the text or the scribe
Quaestio utrum musica sit scientia
Author(s): Pseudo Blasius de Parma, . Folia: 1r-6r
Quaestio utrum sonus sit subiectum in musica
Author(s): Pseudo Blasius de Parma. Folia: 6r-46r
Quaestio utrum diffinitio soni data a Boetio ... sit bene data
Author(s): Pseudo Blasius de Parma. Folia: 46r-67v
Quaestio utrum maximus numerus inequalitatis sit quinarius
Author(s): Pseudo Blasius de Parma. Folia: 67v-72r

Studies

  • Federici Vescovini G., Astrologia e scienza. La crisi dell’aristotelismo sul cadere del Trecento e Biagio Pelacani da Parma, Florence 1979
  • Murdoch J. S., Music and Natural Philosophy. Hitherto Unnoticed Questiones by Blasius of Parma (?), “Manuscripta” 20, 1976: 119-136
  • Panti C., The first Questio of ms. Paris, Bibl. Nat. 7372: Utrum musica sit scientia, “Studi Medievali” 33, 1992: 265-313
  • Panti C., La scienza musicale nella prospettiva occamista di un anonimo magister artium del tardo Medioevo, “Studi musicali” 19, 1990: 3-32
  • Panti C., Una fonte della Declaratio musicae disciplinae di Ugolino da Orvieto: quattro anonime Questiones della tarda Scolastica, “Rivista italiana di musicologia” 24, 1989: 3-47

Editions

  • Panti C., The first Questio of ms. Paris, Bibl. Nat. 7372: Utrum musica sit scientia, “Studi Medievali” 33, 1992: 265-313 [edition of the first quaestio]
Cecilia Panti