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 6 (= MaiM 2)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 6

DIAMM Source Key: 2060

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich), IDEM

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 6 (= MaiM 2)

Provenance:

Copied in Brussels/Mechlin; belongs to Netherlands court complex (Kellman 1976). Sent to Munich for presentation to Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550); placed in ducal court library, whose holdings formed foundation of present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Bindings:

second quarter of 16th century, Brussels, Belgium, Mechelen, Belgium
brown leather over wood
Decoration: blind-tooled lozenge design
Endpapers: front: 2 endpapers with pastedown; back: one endpaper with pastedown
Original binding from the Low Countries, restored 1961

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