ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Magliabechiano 1078's contents and the significance of its song texts. The distinction between oral delivery and oral tradition is particularly pertinent to our understanding of Magliabechiano 1078, for as we have just seen some of its repertoire has strong ties to the written tradition. The chapter explains an oral account of a complex and multifaceted written tradition in which poems employing low linguistic registers stand alongside an ample assortment of poesia aulica born in a visual, literate poetic world. Divorcing texts from their musical settings, placing them on the page as poetry and with poetry, Magliabechiano 1078 illustrates how song texts-poems that today we too often interpret as primarily, if not exclusively, musical-could participate in one medieval scribe's personal literary world. This chapter describes the manuscripts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century that include Franco Sacchetti's autograph; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale II.IV.114; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Magliabechiano VII 624 and the penultimate fascicle of Magliabechiano.
