Squarcialupi Codex
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The Squarcialupi Codex is an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence in the early fifteenth century. It is named for the noted fifteenth-century organist Antonio Squarcialupi, who owned it.
Illustration showing Francesco Landini playing a portative organ
Francesco Landini
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Francesco Landini was a Florentine composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker, and a central figure of the music of the Trecento in the Italian peninsula.
Squarcialupi Codex
…primary source of secular polyphonic music of the Trecento – the Italian ars nova – and contains the largest surviving collection of the compositions of Francesco Landini. The illuminated portraits of the musicians are attributed to Lorenzo Monaco and his circle. It is not known by whom, for what purpose, nor under whose…
Landini's tombstone with him shown playing a portative organ