PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Amiens, France, Bibliothèque d'Amiens Métropole, MS 162

Manuscript type: composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony

RISM siglum: F-AM 162

DIAMM Source Key: 1117

Basis for description: microfilm

Amiens, France, Bibliothèque d'Amiens Métropole, MS 162

Provenance:

Polyphony copied c. 1500. Presumably of French origin; given to monastery of Corbie in 16th century by Antoine de Colaincourt who compiled and almost certainly partly copied the book. Brought to Amiens in 1791.

Bindings:

19th-century,
red leather over
19th-century red leather covers, with emblem of Amiens.

Notes:

See Peter Woetmann Christoffersen's study and online edtion at http://amiens.pwch.dk/index.html

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