The Documents of the Capitular Library in Ivrea

The Capitular Library of Ivrea keeps several treasures, but, from the musicological point of view, the pride of Ivrea lies principally on the manuscript J.IV.115, simply defined as the Ivrea manuscript, which constitutes the basis of our knowledge concerning the music in France in the IXV century. Some of these volumes have a vital importance to know the development of religious music in Northern Italy since the tenth century, others are fundamental to the study of Gregorian chant and of the liturgy in Medieval Piedmont. If we talk about polyphony, we have to mention two less known documents: the Epistolary J.IV.71 and the J.IV.104 that contains a ballad by a famous fourteenth century Italian composer, Francesco Landini.