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.M.1.12 (Lat. 455; olim V.H.9)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-MOe M. 1.12

DIAMM Source Key: 2090

Image repositories: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria

Basis for description: original

Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.M.1.12 (Lat. 455; olim V.H.9)
(Modena C)

Provenance:

Copied in Ferrara, for use at the ducal court of Ercole I d'Este (reigned 1471-1505). Este family library transferred from Ferrara to Modena in 1598; joined to Modena university library in 1892 (DIAMM)

Bindings:

modern, Modena, Italy
red leather over pasteboard
Decoration: simple tooling
yellow edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
Stamped on spine: 'LIBER CHORALIS'

Parts