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 7 (= MaiM 1)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 7

DIAMM Source Key: 2061

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich), IDEM

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 7 (= MaiM 1)

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 , with clasps
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
Original binding from the Low Countries, restored 1954

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