Un elenco veneto di composizioni del Trecento con inedite attribuzioni a Marchetto da Padova e altre novità

A list of musical incipits, penned on the inner side of a parchment bifolium covering one of the theorical compilations gathered in MS 5-2-25 of the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville, reveals that the former function of that parchment cover, likely from the Veneto area in the seventh decade of the 1300, was to contain unbound pieces wpossibly intended for copying. It had enclosed thirty-five works, mostly lost, among which were three motets and a Grammar by Marchetto da Padova that sheds light on the early stages of his teaching career; a number of liturgical compositions attributed to authors so far unknown; and, above all, new evidence for the activities of three early Ars nova masters, Jacopo da Bologna, Giovanni da Cascia and Piero, whose interaction at Verona in the service of the Scala court — so far documented only in the secular field — can be now appreciably extended also to the sacred motet.