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Bayeux Manuscript

The Bayeux Manuscript is an illustrated manuscript comprising one hundred three songs, collected by Charles III, Duke of Bourbon at the beginning of the 16th century and composed in the late 15th century, that is a few decades after the end of the Hundred Years' War. It is stored at the Bibliothèque nationale de France with designation Fr. The Bayeux Manuscript is one of the only two secular monophonic French musical manuscripts from around 1500.

Also recorded as Manuscrit de Bayeux · Fr. 9346 · Manuscript Fr. 9346 · Mss Fr. 9346

Bayeux Manuscript

Manuscrit de Bayeux, chanson 89

Anonymous Unknown author · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b8454671t/f188.item · Public domain

Name
Bayeux manuscript
Date
1505
Language
French
Held by
Bibliothèque nationale de France

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