PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 1 (olim H.C. 59; = MaiM 7)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 1

DIAMM Source Key: 2182

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich)

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 1 (olim H.C. 59; = MaiM 7)

Provenance:

Kept in Munich Hofkapelle library until end of 18th century, then transferred to ducal court library, whose holdings formed foundation of present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Bindings:

c. 1510-23, Munich, Germany
white leather over wood , with clasps
Decoration: blind stamping
none edges
Endpapers: front and back: 2 endpapers (bifolium) from 1859 restoration
Note pasted onto front pastedown: ‘Dieses Rückweisblatt ist dem am 29t. Juli 1795 vollendeten Musikcatalog des damal. Scriptors Joh. Bapt. Bernhart entnommen! – Ausgebessert und vor sicherem Zugrundegehen bewahrt wurde das Manuscript. München Jan. 1859. Julius Jos. Maier’ Also restored November 1865.

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