This isn’t going to be a long post but it is something I have discovered while transcribing Le Roy’s 5th book (which I am hoping to have finished by Friday so I can print it and bring it with me to an SCA event on Saturday). A lot of the chansons (which just translates to “songs” but it means a specific type of song that is sung along to as opposed to being just played for pleasure or to be danced to) are arranged so that the lyrics and tune are on one page and the guitar tablature is on the other. When a chanson is too long to fit on one page there is the text “Verte fol.” which, in French, apparently translates to “Green page” (I am not sure what fol. is short for but it is the word for a two page spread in a book) which seemed incorrect. It turns out that Verte is actually Latin for “turn” so Verte fol. actually means “Turn the page”. On the top of the next page there is the text “RESIDUUM” where the title, composer or type of song would go. Apparently this is also Latin and means “The Remainder”. I haven’t run into any more Latin (yet) but I will absolutely share my findings if I run into any more.
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