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 25 (olim H.C.51; = MaiM 69)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 25

DIAMM Source Key: 2193

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich)

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 25 (olim H.C.51; = MaiM 69)

Provenance:

Copied in Munich, for use by the court chapel of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550); origin in Augsburg also possible for ff. 23-48 (Bente 1968). 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. 1525-1550,
white leather over wood
no edges
Endpapers: front and back: pastedown only

Parts