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.1.2 (Lat. 457; olim VI.H.I)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-MOe M.1.2

DIAMM Source Key: 964

Image repositories: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria

Basis for description: original

Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.M.1.2 (Lat. 457; olim VI.H.I)

Provenance:

Copied in Ferrara, for use at the ducal court of Alfonso I d'Este (1476-1534). 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