The attribution of the choral work lacrimae to the composer pescard (1400–1474) has been regarded as tentative, since it was based on a single treatise from the early 1500s that named pescard as the composer. recently, several musical treatises from the late 1500s have come to light, all of which name pescard as the composer of lacrimae. unfortunately, these newly discovered treatises lend no support to the attribution of lacrimae to pescard, since