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² Balensuela mentions that a critical edition and translation of the Libellus by Daniel Katz is in progress, but it is my understanding that he is no longer working on this project. The treatise is extant in over fifty manuscript copies, which makes the task of producing a critical edition prohibitive. Since the treatise is so important to fourteenth-century music theory, however, it should be available to modern scholars in an edition other than Coussemaker's. An edition that is not ‘critical’ (in the sense of using all the extant sources) could be considered, using, for example, Calvin Bower's translation of Boethius as a model. Bower's work is based on a quorum of early manuscript sources (Boethius, The Fundamentals of Music, ed. and trans. Bower, Calvin (New Haven, 1990)).Google Scholar Another possibility would be a facsimile edition of some of the manuscript sources of the Libellus accompanied by a translation. See below for a discussion of this concept.

³ Definition from the Concise Dictionary of Law, ed. Martin, Elizabeth A., as quoted by Balensuela, p. 25.Google Scholar

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⁶ See Marchetto's statements in the Lucidarium (edited and translated by Herlinger, Jan W. (Chicago, 1985), 71) and the Pomerium (edited by Vecchi, Joseph, Corpus Scriptorum de musica, (1961), 36), where he indicates that the monk Syphans of Ferrara has ‘organized the book in the philosophical arguments necessary to it’.Google Scholar

⁷ Ciconia may have been making reference to the Liber argumentorum, a commentary on Guido's Micrologus published in van Waesberghe, Joseph Smits, Expositions in Micrologum Guidonis Aretini, Musica Medii Aevi, 1 (Amsterdam, 1957).Google Scholar

⁸ Hult, David, ‘Reading it Right: The Ideology of Text Editing’, The New Medievalism, ed. Brownlee, Marina S. et al. , (Baltimore, 1991), 113–30.Google Scholar

⁹ Ibid, 122.

¹⁰ Ibid

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