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Composers of sacred modal music in France, 12th and 13th centuries
Leoninus"magister," attested as a canon and presbyter of Notre Dame de Paris, fl. 1150s-c. 1201
Perotinus"magister"; possibly Petrus, succentor of Notre Dame de Paris, c. 1207-c. 1238

Manuscripts of sacred music with modal notation
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Guelf. 628 Helmst. [W1]St. Andrews, Scotland, c. 1240
London, British Library, Egerton 2615 [LoA]Beauvais Cathedral, by 1241?
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, P1. 29.1 [F]Paris, 1240s
Wolfenbuttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Guelf 1099 Helmst. [W2]probably Paris, mid-13C
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. ms. 4775 & Wolf fragments [MüA]Paris, mid-13C
Madrid, Biblioteca nacional, 20486 [Ma]Spain (possibly Toledo), 1250s-70s
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, f. lat. 15139 [StV]France? 1250s-70s
 
Manuscripts of sacred music with mensural figurae simplices (longae, breves, semibreves)
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, n. a. fr. 13521 [C1]Ile de France or vicinity, c.1260s
Montpellier, Bibliothèque Inter-Universitaire, Section Medicine, H196 [Mo]Paris, 1270s-early 14C (in layers)
Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Van 421 [Tu]Abbey of St. Jacques, Liege, c. 1300
Burgos, Monasterio de la Huelgas, without number [Hu]Convent of Las Huelgas, c. 1300
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Lit. 115 (formerly Ed.IV.6) [Ba]Paris or ile de France, end 13C-early 14C

Parisian music theorists
(see Sandra Pinegar, "Textual and Conceptual Relationships Among Theoretical Writings on Measurable Music of the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries," Ph.D. diss., Columbia Univ., 1991)
Bruges Organum Treatise1220s-30s
Vatican Organurn Treatuse1220s-30s
Discantus positio vulgaris1230s-40s
Habito de ipsa plana musicac.1240-60
Johannes de Garlandia, De musica mensurabili positioc.1270-1300
Amerus, De musica libellus1270s
Lambertus, Ars musicec.1275
Dietricus, Regule super discantumc.1275
St. Emmeram Treatuse1279
Anonymous 4after 1272
Hieronymus of Moravia (redactions of Discantus positio vulgaris, De mensurabili musica, etc.)after 1272
Franco of Cologne, Ars cantus mensurabilis1260s or 1280s
Johannes de Grocheio, Ars musicac.1300