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.1.13 (Lat 456; olim V.H.10)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-MOe M.1.13

DIAMM Source Key: 966

Image repositories: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria

Basis for description: original

Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.M.1.13 (Lat 456; olim V.H.10)

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
brown leather over pasteboard
Decoration: simple tooling
yellow edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
'LIBER CHORALIS' stamped on spine

Parts