1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

1. Politiques , 339.

2. Ibid., 361.

3. Ibid., 343.

4. Ibid., 345.

5. Ibid., 370.

6. Ibid., 345.

7. Ibid., 361.

8. Oresme defines excercitative as a noun in the glossary of difficult words: " Excercitative est art et maniere de soi mouver et de frequenter aucun mouvement corporel pour santé ou pour esbatement ou pour soi habiliter a faiz d'armes ou a aucunes teles choses" (ibid., 371).

9. Ibid., 364.

10. Ibid., 365.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid., 345.

15. Ibid., 343. Menut gives the source of the Latin quotation as Matt. 10:27. Here it appears that Oresme needs to justify in Christian terms the reference to pagan sensual enjoyment of music.

16. Ibid., 349-50. Ernest Barker explains that words "which always ought to accompany music" contribute to its moral value ( The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle [New York: Dover Publications, 1959], 442). [BACK]

17. Fais et bonnes meurs , vol. 1, 45. An editorial note gives further information on payments to the king's musicians. [BACK]

18. See Li livres du gouvernement des rois , ed. Molenaer, 200, ll. 11-18. [BACK]

20. For an interesting discussion of the importance of music in Paris university life, see Nan Cooke Carpenter, Music in the Medieval and Renaissance Universities (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958), 50-69. [BACK]

21. See Andrew Hughes, "Music, Western European," in DMA , vol. 8, 594, and Carpenter, Music in the Medieval and Renaissance Universities , 64-68. [BACK]

22. Armand Machabey, Guillaume de Machaut, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musical (Paris: Richard-Masse, 1955), vol. 1, 46-68; Sarah Jane Williams, "Guillaume de Machaut," in DMA , vol. 8, 3. [BACK]

23. Manuscript Painting at the Court of France , notices for pls. 26, 29, and 30, 90, 96, and 98; "Manuscrits," nos. 271 and 283, 318 and 328-29; and "Guillaume de Machaut," in Colloque-table ronde, organisé par l'Université de Reims, 19-22 April 1978 (Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1982), 117-32. For the future Charles V as the possible patron of certain illustrated Machaut manuscripts, see Donal Byrne, "A Fourteenth-Century French Drawing in Berlin and the Livre du Voir-Dit of Guillaume de Machaut," Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 47/1 (1984): 81. [BACK]

24. Politiques , 347.

25. Ibid., 15. Menut cites Albert Seay, Music in the Medieval World (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 130-37. [BACK]

24. Politiques , 347.

25. Ibid., 15. Menut cites Albert Seay, Music in the Medieval World (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 130-37. [BACK]

26. V. Zoubov, "Nicole Oresme et la musique," Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1961): 96-107. For editions of two treatises, see Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions , ed. Clagett; and Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion: Tractatus de commensurabilitate vel incommensurabilitate motuum celi , ed. Edward Grant (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971). For Oresme's contribution to theory in terms of "the beauty of ratios other than those previously accepted," see Hughes, "Music, Western European," 583. [BACK]