Publisher's description:

The Lucca (Mancini) Codex is an incomplete source, the surviving pages of which are now preserved in Lucca and Perugia. It testifies eloquently to the flowering of composition in north and central Italy at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century. Included are a number of otherwise unknown works of the late Ars Nova. The text accompanying the present edition examines the origins of the source and its content within the historical and cultural contexts of the north Italian courts of Giangaleazzo Visconti (Pavia) and Francesco Carrara (Padua). Towards the end of the first decade of the fifteenth century, the collection was taken south, possibly coming into contact with the papal chapels of Pisa and Bologna, before arriving in Florence where pieces by local composers were copied on to its final pages. The introduction reconstructs the original appearance of the source, and gives a full inventory of its contents. Also included are comparative tables, transcriptions of four pieces and ultraviolet photographs of the more damaged sheets.