On the Production and Reading of the Leuven Chansonnier Alamire Foundation
This article places the Leuven Chansonnier within the context of the group of the so-called Loire Valley chansonniers, paying specific attention to its materiality and making: its size; its writing space as determined by its size, and how content was then deployed within this space; production methods such as preparation and ruling; and the ways in which the book was made both ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ through notation and mise-en-page. While the ...