PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Santa Maria Maggiore 26 (olim JJ.III.4)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: CV-Vbav SMM 26

DIAMM Source Key: 1495

Image repositories: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Basis for description: original

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Santa Maria Maggiore 26 (olim JJ.III.4)

Provenance:

Copied in Rome, possibly for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Came into BAV as part of the Biblioteca Liberiana

Bindings:

Rome, Italy
red leather over wood
Decoration: blind tooled and stamped, large metal bosses in centre, metal corners
no edges
Endpapers: front: 1, presumably originally with pastedown (now separate); rear none
considerably damaged, especially spine

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