Constructing Identities in a Music Manuscript: The Medici Codex as a Gift

The motet manuscript known as the Medici Codex is associated by modern scholarship with the 1518 marriage of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. It was once thought that the manuscript was made in France and given to Lorenzo by Francis I, but now it is almost unanimo...

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Published inRenaissance quarterly Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 84 - 127
Main Author Shephard, Tim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge The Renaissance Society of America 01.03.2010
Cambridge University Press
Subjects
Celebrations
de la Tour d Auvergne, Madeleine (Duchess of Urbino) (1495-1519)
de Medici, Lorenzo II (Duke of Urbino) (1492-1519)
Diplomacy
Manuscript studies
Marriage
Motets
Nobility
Popes
Portraits
Renaissance music
Studies
Weddings
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Summary:The motet manuscript known as the Medici Codex is associated by modern scholarship with the 1518 marriage of Lorenzo II de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. It was once thought that the manuscript was made in France and given to Lorenzo by Francis I, but now it is almost unanimously agreed that it was made in Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X. Since this revision, no one has put forward a detailed view of how the manuscript relates to the circumstances under which it was given and to the individuals involved, or how it functions as a gift. This study places the manuscript in the context of other gifts associated with the marriage to arrive at such a view.
ISSN:0034-4338
1935-0236
DOI:10.1086/652534