This document discusses the transmission and collection of Guillaume de Machaut's Remede de Fortune in various medieval manuscripts. It describes how different poems from the collection were transmitted directly via authoritative manuscripts containing music and texts or indirectly without music. Individual lyrics from the collection were also transmitted in anthologies separate from the complete work. The document analyzes specific manuscripts that contain portions of the Remede de Fortune and discusses how they represent different methods of transmission of Machaut's collection across the medieval period.

1. The Remede as Anthology
Machaut in the Book
Harrison Institute, University of Virginia
12 April, 2013
Benjamin Albritton
Stanford University
blalbrit@stanford.edu
@bla222

2. Inserted Lyrics
• RF1: Lai
• RF2: Complainte
• RF3: Chant royal
• RF4: Balade (baladelle)
• RF5: Balade
• RF6: Virelai
• RF7: Rondeau
• Prière
• Refrain

3. Methods of Collection
Authority • Textual
• Direct Transmission • Oral/Aural
• Indirect Transmission • Mnemonic
– Authorized
– Unauthorized
Method

4. Direct Transmission
RF1 & RF2
BNF, français 1586, f. 26r BNF, français 1586, f. 30v

5. Indirect Unauthorized Transmission
RF3 & 4
BNF, français 1586, f. 38v BNF, français 1586, f. 45v

6. Direct Transmission
RF5 & RF6
BNF, français 1586, ff. 47v and 49r

7. Transmission of Performance
RF7/RF8 & RF9
BNF, français 1586, 51r BNF, français 1586, f. 56v

8. Author as Scribe
(Scribe as Author)
• Ballade (Lo17)
• Rondel (Fonteinne03)
http://manicules.blogspot.com/2013/01/returning-to-fountain.html

9. Transmission of the Remede
Complete Work (Complete Works MS)
• C (with music)
• W (frag.; music lost)
• Vg (with music)
• B (with music)
• A (with music)
• F (with music)
• E (with music)
• M (text only)
• K (with music for two ballades)
• J (text only – with space for music for two ballades)
• Pm (text only)

10. Transmission of the Remede
Complete Work
(MSS of individual works)
• Pe (with music, but with a lyric substitution)

11. Transmission of the Remede
Individual Lyrics in Anthologies
MS I Jp MS Pa MS Trém MS FP MS PR MS Pit MS
Kassel
RF3
RF4 RF4 RF4 RF4 RF4
RF5 RF5 RF5 RF5
RF6

12. Penn: RF3 & RF6
Fol. 49r

13. BNF NAF 6771 (PR)

14. (text transcribed in T-PEN)
http://t-pen.org/TPEN

15. BNF NAF 6221 (I): Dame, de qui
fol. 20r

16. (transcribed in T-PEN)
http://t-pen.ort/TPEN

17. Le jardin de plaisance (1501)
ff. 68r-68v

18. RF5: Dame, de qui
http://stanford.edu/~blalbrit/v-machine-2/samples/DamedequiRF5.xml

19. Work MS I Jp
L12/2 #1/1a
B34 text 2 = VD57 #93
Lo229=VD5=B32 #94
Lo258 = B39 #96 #42
Lo195=B23 #45
B28 = Lo203 #46
B29 (text2) #96a
B29 (text1) #97
B18 #100 #48
MS J no. 117 #103 #40
(opus dubium)
B25=Lo201 #104
B34 (text 1) = VD 56 #105
RF5 #106 #72
Lo65 #108
R8 Cit. in Art de Dictier
R15 Cit. in Art de Dictier #77
R7 #80
MS J no. 97 #469
(opus dubium)

20. En Amer
Bern 218 Arsenal 5203 it. 568 NAF 6771
Kassel, Quarto MS Med. 1

21. Comparison
MS C (BNF ffr 1586)