Squarcialupi Codex

Squarcialupi Codex
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
Illustration showing Francesco Landini playing a portative organ
Also known as	Codex Squarcialupi
Type	codex
Date	approximately 1410–1415
Place of origin	Florence
Language(s)	volgare
Author(s)	Giovanni da Cascia Jacopo da Bologna Gherardello da Firenze Vincenzo da Rimini Lorenzo da Firenze Donato da Firenze Niccolò da Perugia Bartolino da Padova Francesco Landini Egidius and Guilielmus de Francia Zacara da Teramo Andrea da Firenze
Illuminated by	Lorenzo Monaco and circle
Material	parchment
Previously kept	Antonio Squarcialupi Raffaello Bonamici, his nephew Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici Biblioteca Palatina
Accession	Mediceo Palatino 87

The Squarcialupi Codex (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Mediceo Palatino 87) is an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence in the early fifteenth century.^[1] It is named for the noted fifteenth-century organist Antonio Squarcialupi, who owned it.^[2]: 448

It is the single largest 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 patronage the compilation was made.^[3]: 202