Codex Faenza
15th-century musical manuscript
The Codex Faenza (Faenza, Biblioteca Comunale 117) abbreviated as "(I-FZc 117)", and sometimes known as Codex Bonadies, is a 15th-century musical manuscript containing the oldest large collection of keyboard music along with additional vocal pieces and music theoretical works by John Hothby. The Codex Faenza fully appeared in modern notation on Keyboard Music of the Late Middle Ages in Codex Faenza 117 (Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, Band 57) by Dragan Plamenac, American Inst. of Musicology (1972). The manuscript is held at the Biblioteca Comunale di Faenza, near Ravenna. A facsimile of the complete manuscript with commentary by Pedro Memelsdorff was published by LIM in 2013.
The works of the manuscript are detailed below. The codes in the "Recordings" column are specified in the "Discography" section. The works added by Johannes Bonadies are specified with different color in the list.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2981667. The Library of Congress control number is no2003020259. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 2013.
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