Musical Transmission Networks and the Leuven Chansonnier

Since the Leuven Chansonnier was discovered in 2015, the question of its position in musical transmission networks has largely been side-stepped in the published literature. The songbook is highly concordant with both French and Savoyard chansonniers. Heraldic evidence that it was owned by a member of the house of Savoy raises the question of whether its variants and errors of copying accord with sources from that region. I demonstrate through seven text-critical case studies that the Leuven Chansonnier’s readings instead connect it to French sources, particularly those copied by the so-called Dijon Scribe.