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A conductus query: Does anyone know whether the following two likely references to Classical Latin sources in the conductus Nobilitas animi have been identified previously?For lines 1-3: "Nobilitas animi / sola est ac unica. / Virtus dolet opprimi."  See Juvenal, Satires, 8,20: “/ ... nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus. /”  This expression gained further currency thanks to its inclusion in the twelfth-century Moralium dogma philosophorum, where Juvenal’s phrase was filled out – and…See More

Here's a query about the Florence MS. Does anyone know if anyone has done any work on the occasional double strokes one sees in the margins (particularly evident in fascicle 5)? They look something like this: // but are usually much more angled, sometimes almost horizontal. Has anyone proposed what these may mean? I am wondering if they may be indications of proofreading, suggesting correction, and in my brief and incomplete scouring I can usually find something in the music to suggest a…See More