Surname
Fontenay (de)
Given Name
Jean
Variant Name
Jo.
Fontanis (de)
Active period
1381 - 1381
Biography
Cambrai, BM, MS 29
CCM: 13 hymns (4 incomplete), 1 textless fragment = 14
(Dufay)-2, anon-12
286 parchment folios, 410 x 285. Manuscript was restored after many folios were badly damaged and deteriorated. Original covers of light tan leather over boards, with metal bosses and remnants of clasps. No index. Primary and secondary initials are alternately red and blue, with filigree work (sometimes extending to borders). The manuscript contains a calendar, a psalter, several litanies and hymnaries, an Office of the Virgin, and an Office of the Dead; the polyphonic pieces are later additions.
Date 1381 appears on f. 258 ("Hos hymnos fecit fieri dominus Jo. de Fontanis, Cameracensis capellanus, anno domini MCCCLXXXI"); the polyphonic hymns were added ca. 1435-50. Copied at the Cathedral in Cambrai.
CCM: 13 hymns (4 incomplete), 1 textless fragment = 14
(Dufay)-2, anon-12
286 parchment folios, 410 x 285. Manuscript was restored after many folios were badly damaged and deteriorated. Original covers of light tan leather over boards, with metal bosses and remnants of clasps. No index. Primary and secondary initials are alternately red and blue, with filigree work (sometimes extending to borders). The manuscript contains a calendar, a psalter, several litanies and hymnaries, an Office of the Virgin, and an Office of the Dead; the polyphonic pieces are later additions.
Date 1381 appears on f. 258 ("Hos hymnos fecit fieri dominus Jo. de Fontanis, Cameracensis capellanus, anno domini MCCCLXXXI"); the polyphonic hymns were added ca. 1435-50. Copied at the Cathedral in Cambrai.