Front illustration: Fol.38v The Heart, from 'Traite de Medecine' (1356) by Aldebrande de Florence, Biblioteca del Palacio Nacional de Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal / Bridgeman Images
The editions used for this recording are from the forthcoming The Complete Works of Guillaume de Machaut (Yolanda Plumley and R Barton Palmer, general editors), with kind permission of the University of Michigan Press. The music was edited by Jacques Boogaart, Yolanda Plumley, Uri Smilansky and Anne Stone; the lyric texts were edited by Jacques Boogaart, Yolanda Plumley and Tamsyn Rose-Steel, and translated by R Barton Palmer.