PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.F.9.9 (Ital. 1221; olim VIII.F.27)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-MOe F.9.9

DIAMM Source Key: 963

Image repositories: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria

Basis for description: original

Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.F.9.9 (Ital. 1221; olim VIII.F.27)

Provenance:

Made in the environment of the Padua Cathedral school, given by Giovanni Francesco da Vaccarino to Francesco Fazi (Zanovello 2016). Later owned by Este family of Ferrara. Este family library transferred to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892

Bindings:

Modena, Italy
brown leather over wood
Decoration: tooled and stamped in gold
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
restored using original covers

Parts