Abstract:This essay takes a further step in identifying the patterns of prove-nance of the Aragonese fragments ofars novapolyphony, thus recalibrating the way we think about the connection between the original manuscripts and local institutions and individuals. Most of the manuscripts’ provenances curiously coincide with court itineraries in royal cities such as Barcelona, Gerona and Vilafranca del Penedès, while a number of fragments were recovered from par-ish archives in small villages within the area between the Royal Monastery of Poblet and city of Cervera. While none of the surviving fragments can be secure-ly identified with the polyphonic books commissioned by kings JohnI (b.1350, r.1387–1396) and MartinI (r.1396–1410), archival evidence suggests that theroyal court was indeed a major force behind the dissemination of ars novapo-lyphony in late medieval Catalonia