PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds du conservatoire MS Rés. 862

Manuscript type: polyphonic music manuscript appended to polyphonic music print

RISM siglum: F-Pn Rés. 862

DIAMM Source Key: 2379

Image repositories: Gallica

Basis for description: original

Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds du conservatoire MS Rés. 862

Provenance:

Possibly written in Milan (given the presence of works by Gaffurius) or Venice. The Library of the National Conservatory of Music (Bibliothèque du Conservatoire national de musique), created in 1795: its stamp (f. 88v), from 1942 part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Bindings:

c. 1503-5, Italy
light reddish brown leather over wood
Decoration: Stamped with an ornamental pattern and four human heads in medallions
none edges
Endpapers: front: 2 (one modern, one original), back: 1 (modern), all paper
Probably original binding; rebacked.

Notes:

Bound with Cons. MS Rés. 861, Ottaviano Petrucci, Motetti A (Venice, 1502) (see RISM 1502/1).

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