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 Cappella Giulia XII 2 (olim C.48)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Rvat CG XII.2

DIAMM Source Key: 1496

Image repositories: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Basis for description: original

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Cappella Giulia XII 2 (olim C.48)

Provenance:

Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Giulia

Bindings:

1599, Rome, Italy
red leather over wood
Decoration: blind tooled and stamped, large metal bosses in centre, bosses around outer edges of the boards, massive metal corners with bosses
no edges
Endpapers: front and rear: 1, presumably originally with pastedown (now separate)
Bound in 1599. Original collation of quires (made of single leaves in-plano) possibly disturbed, and leaves heavily trimmed

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