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The '''''Ivrea Codex''''' (''Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, 115'') is a [[parchment]] [[manuscript]] containing a significant body of 14th century French [[polyphony|polyphonic]] music.

The codex contains [[motets]], [[mass (music)|Mass]] movements, and a handful of [[virelai]]s, [[Caccia (music)|chaces]], and [[ballade (forme fixe)|ballade]]s, composed in the middle of the 14th century.<ref>"Sources, MS, VII: French Polyphony 1300-1420", in Grove Music Online (Accessed October 11, 2006), [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }}</ref> The [[musical notation|notation]] is characteristic of the [[Ars Nova]] period.  The manuscript is missing at least one gathering of Mass movements.<ref>Kügle, Karl, "Codex Ivrea, Bibl. cap. 115: A French Source 'Made in Italy'," ''Revista de Musicologia 13'' (1990), p. 529.</ref>

The provenance of the codex is disputed.  It was long thought to have been compiled in [[Avignon]], the seat of the [[Western Schism|French Papacy]], around 1370.<ref>Heinrich Besseler, "Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters, Part I: Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts," ''[[Archiv für Musikwissenschaft]]'' 7 (1925), p. 194.</ref> However, the musically important court of Gaston Fébus has also been suggested.<ref>[[Ursula Günther]], "Problems of Dating in ''ars nova'' and ''ars subtilior''," ''L'ars nova italiana del Trecento 4'' (Certaldo: 1978), pp. 292-293.</ref>  Most recently, however, Karl Kügle has asserted that the source was made in [[Ivrea]] itself, by musicians connected to the [[Savoy]]ard court (possibly [[Jehan Pellicier]]), in the 1380s or 1390s.<ref>Kügle, ''op. cit.'', pp. 527-553.</ref>  None of these three interpretations has become universally accepted.

All of the music in the codex is anonymous, but attributions have been made on the basis of concordances to [[Philippe de Vitry]], [[Guillaume de Machaut]], [[Magister Heinricus]], [[Bararipton]], [[Depansis]], [[Matheus de Sancto Johanne]],  [[Orles]], [[Sortes (composer)|Sortes]], and [[Loys]]. One piece attributed to [[Chipre]] is probably of [[Music of Cyprus|Cypriot]] provenance. Kügle notes that ''[[ars subtilior]]''-style compositions are absent from the source;<ref>Kügle, ''op. cit.'', p. 552.</ref> however, sources without ''ars subtilior'' compositions far outnumber those containing these pieces, so it is hard to read particular significance into this statement.{{cn|date=August 2020}}

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