Chansonnier

A chansonnier (cançoner, cançonièr, Galician and cancioneiro, canzoniere or canzoniéro, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books"; however, some manuscripts are called chansonniers even though they preserve the text but not the music, for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyrics.

The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadours and trouvères used in the medieval music. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France, but also in Italy, Germany and in the Iberian peninsula.

French

 * Cangé Chansonnier
 * Cappella Giulia Chansonnier
 * Casanatense chansonnier
 * Chansonnier Cordiforme
 * Chansonnier de Arras
 * Chansonnier du Roi (also Occitan)
 * Chansonnier Nivelle de la Chaussée
 * Copenhagen Chansonnier
 * Dijon Chansonnier
 * Florentine Chansonnier
 * Laborde Chansonnier
 * Mellon Chansonnier
 * Noailles Chansonnier
 * Seville Chansonnier
 * Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier

Italian

 * Cancionero de Montecassino

Occitan

 * Cançoner Gil
 * Cançoner Vega-Aguiló
 * Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés
 * Philipps Manuscript
 * Poetarum Provinciali

Galician-Portuguese

 * Cancioneiro da Ajuda
 * Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
 * Cancioneiro da Vaticana
 * Pergaminho Sharrer (fragment)
 * Pergaminho Vindel see Martin Codax

Portuguese

 * Cancioneiro de Belém
 * Cancioneiro de Elvas
 * Cancioneiro de Lisboa
 * Cancioneiro de Paris

Spanish

 * Cancionero de Baena
 * Cancionero de la Colombina
 * Cancionero de Medinaceli
 * Cancionero de Palacio
 * Cancionero de Segovia