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The Cyprus (Turin) manuscript is a French Cypriot manuscript, a large collection (334 works) of Christian simple chants, as well as sacred and secular polyphonic vocal music, copied around 1410-1420.
Stored in the library of the National University of Turin.
Its exact place of origin is unknown, but was probably copied at the court of Janus, King of Cyprus and Armenia, in Nicosia.
The contents of the manuscript are divided into five sections, separated from each other by one or more blank pages.
The first three contain liturgical chant (fol. 1r-28r), polyphonic mass movements in Latin and French (fol. 29r-57r), as well as motets (fol. 59r-97r).
The last two sections are secular songs in French in the standard poetic forms of the period: ballads (fol. 98r–139v) and vireles and rondos (fol. 143r–158v).