- Howard Mayer Brown. "Chansonnier (i)", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed July 30, 2006), grovemusic.com Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine.
A chansonnier (Catalan: cançoner, Occitan: cançonièr, Galician and Portuguese: cancioneiro, Italian: canzoniere or canzoniéro, Spanish: cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books"; however, some manuscripts are called chansonniers even though they preserve the text but not the music, for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyrics.
The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadours and trouvères used in the medieval music. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France, but also in Italy, Germany and in the Iberian peninsula.
| Siglum | Library | City | Shelf mark | Nickname | Date | Provenance | Digitised scan (external links) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 146 | Cançoner Gil | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | ||
| C | Biblioteca Nacional de España | Madrid, Spain | Res. I-27 / Res. 48 | Cançoner dels Comtes d'Urgell | Biblioteca Digital Hispánica | ||
| D1 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Ottob. Lat. 845 | DigiVatLib | |||
| D2 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Ottob. Lat. 542 | DigiVatLib | |||
| D3 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 2017 | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | |||
| D4 | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Isidoro | Rome, Italy | ms 1/71 | ||||
| D5 | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| D6 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Lat. 10036 | ||||
| D7 | Biblioteca Nacional de España | Madrid, Spain | ms II-171 | ||||
| E | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | MS 4 | Cançoner d'Estanislau Aguiló | |||
| Fa | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | ms esp. 487 | Cançoner de Paris-Carpentràs | |||
| Fb | Bibliothèque Municipale | Carpentras, France | ms 381 | Cançoner de Paris-Carpentràs | |||
| G | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | 1744 | Cançoner Carreras | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | ||
| Ha–b | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | mss 7–8 | Cançoner Vega-Aguiló | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya (ultraviolet) | ||
| Hk | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 831 | ||||
| J | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | ms esp. 225 | Cançoner d'obres enamorades | |||
| K | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 10 | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | |||
| L | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 9 | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | |||
| N | Biblioteca de l'Ateneu | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1 | Cançoner de l'Ateneu | 15th century | BAB Digital | |
| O1 | Biblioteca Universitària | Valencia, Spain | 9297 | ||||
| O2 | Hispanic Society of America | New York City, United States | B 2281 | ||||
| O3 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Salamanca, Spain | ms 2244 | Gestión del Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Salamanca | |||
| O4 | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | ms esp. 479 | ||||
| O5 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 2025 | Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya | |||
| O6 | Biblioteca Nacional | Madrid, Spain | ms 2985 | ||||
| O7 | Biblioteca Nacional | Madrid, Spain | ms 3695 | ||||
| O8 | Biblioteca de El Escorial | El Escorial, Spain | ms LIII 26 | ||||
| P | Biblioteca Universitaria | Zaragoza, Spain | ms 184 | Cançoner de la Universitat de Saragossa | |||
| Q | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | ms esp. 229 | ||||
| R | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | ms esp. 226 | ||||
| S1 | Biblioteca del Monestir | Montserrat, Spain | ms 991 | Cançoner del Marquès de Barberà | Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives | ||
| S2 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1030 | ||||
| T | Hispanic Society of America | New York City, USA | ms B 2280 | ||||
| U | Biblioteca Universitària | Valencia, Spain | 88419 | Codex de Mayans | |||
| X1 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 125 | Jardinet d'Orats | Biblioteca Patronial Digital | ||
| X2 | Wren Library | Cambridge, UK | ms R 1417 | Jardinet d'Orats | Wren Digital Library | ||
| Y | Biblioteca del Palacio Real | Madrid, Spain | MS 2 F5 | Cancionero de Palacio | |||
| Z | |||||||
| b1 | Biblioteca Nazionale | Turin, Italy | ms G-II-34 | Blandin de Cornualha | |||
| b2 | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | fr. 14973 | ||||
| b3 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 479 | ||||
| c | Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó | Barcelona, Spain | Ripoll 129 | Cançoneret de Ripoll | |||
| d1 | Biblioteca Universitària | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d2 | Col·legi de la Sapiència | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d3 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Chigi E.4108 | ||||
| d4 | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Munich, Germany | lat. 10538 | ||||
| d5 | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | Milan, Italy | lat. H 8 inf. | ||||
| d6 | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Isidoro | Rome, Italy | 1/18 | ||||
| d7 | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Isidoro | Rome, Italy | 1/22 | ||||
| d9 | Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana | Rome, Italy | 44.A.3 | ||||
| d10 | Biblioteca del Collegio di San Isidoro | Rome, Italy | 1/95 | ||||
| d11 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Lat. 9344 | ||||
| d12 | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Lat. 10275 | ||||
| d13 | British Library | London, UK | Add. 16431 | ||||
| d14 | British Library | London, UK | Add. 16432 | ||||
| d15 | British Library | London, UK | Add. 16430 | ||||
| d16 | Biblioteca de la Causa Pia Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d17 | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d18 | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d19 | Biblioteca Universitària | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d20 | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d21 | Biblioteca Ambrosiana | Milan, Italy | D 465 inf. | ||||
| d22 | Biblioteca Universitària | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d23 | Biblioteca Universitària | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d24 | Biblioteca Universitària | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |||||
| d25 | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Munich, Germany | lat. 10591 | ||||
| d27 | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | Munich, Germany | ms 612 hisp. 69 | ||||
| d28 | Deutsche Staatsbibliothek | Berlin, Germany | ms hisp. Quart. 63 | ||||
| d29 | Seminarbibliothek | Mainz, Germany | |||||
| d30 | Biblioteca Colombina | Seville, Spain | Y-129-7 | ||||
| e1 | Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze | Florence, Italy | Conv. Soppr. G-4313 | ||||
| e2 | Real Academia de la Historia | Madrid, Spain | Est. 55 gr. 1a, n. 15 | ||||
| e3 | Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana | Palma de Mallorca, Spain | ms 8 s/n | ||||
| f2 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 759 | ||||
| h | Biblioteca Capitular | Valencia, Spain | ms lat (con una poesia catalana) | ||||
| i1 | Bibliothèque Municipale | Marseille, France | catal. p. 298, n. 2 | ||||
| i2 | Arxiu Capitular | Barcelona, Spain | ms 23 | ||||
| i3 | Arxiu Capitular | Barcelona, Spain | Cant de la Sibil·la | ||||
| i4 | Barcelona, Spain | ms lat. (con poesie catalane) | |||||
| k | Biblioteca Universitaria Ventimigliana | Catania, Italy | ms 92 | ||||
| l | Biblioteca Nacional de España | Madrid, Spain | ms 10264 | ||||
| m | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 482 | ||||
| n1 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 123 | ||||
| n2 | Arxiu Capitular | Girona, Spain | |||||
| n3 | Arxiu de la corona d'Aragó | Barcelona, Spain | ms 26 | ||||
| n4 | Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó | Barcelona, Spain | memorial n. 49 | ||||
| n5 | Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó | Barcelona, Spain | memorial n. 55 | ||||
| o | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 54 | ||||
| p | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 68 | ||||
| q | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1716 | ||||
| r1 | Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó | Barcelona, Spain | ms Sant Cugat 27 | ||||
| r2 | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | lat. 6652 | ||||
| s | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana | Vatican City | Lat. 4806 | ||||
| t | Biblioteca de la Capella del Palau | Barcelona, Spain | Esacs d'Amor | ||||
| u | Biblioteca Capitular | Barcelona, Spain | ms 6 | ||||
| v | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 485 | ||||
| x1 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1000 | ||||
| x2 | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | nouv. acq. 4232 | ||||
| x3 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 729 | ||||
| x4 | Biblioteca Colombina | Seville, Spain | 7-7-6 | ||||
| x5 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 451 | ||||
| x6 | Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Paris, France | esp. 472 | ||||
| x7 | Biblioteca Universitaria | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1029 | ||||
| x8 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 372 | ||||
| x9 | Madrid, Spain | Vida de Sancta Margarida | |||||
| x10 | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 1957 | ||||
| x11 | Biblioteca del Monestir de Sant Pere de les Puel·les | Barcelona, Spain | |||||
| y | Biblioteca de Montserrat | Montserrat, Spain | ms 1 | Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | 1396–1399 | Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes | |
| za | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona, Spain | ms 3 | Cançoner de vides de sants | |||
| zb | Biblioteca Municipal | Valencia, Spain |
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