PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Siena, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K. 1.2

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Sc K.I.2

DIAMM Source Key: 1502

Basis for description: original

Siena, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K. 1.2

Provenance:

1. Commissioned from Matheus Gay by Alberto Aringhieri from February 1481. Two originally separate collections bound together at an unknown date. 2. The present volume was removed from the cathedral at an unknown date (perhaps the eighteenth century), and placed in the library of the Sienese degli Intronati. D'Accone 1986.

Bindings:

Siena, Italy
brown leather over wood , with clasps
Decoration: too worn and damaged to see any tooling or stamping; two larges bosses in the middle, front and back; corner bosses mostly fallen off
no edges
Endpapers: front: 2 endpapers (original); rear: none
Original binding, in very poor state; on spine old (original?) label 'Libro Corale Con Note M.S. 17'. Pages that may have been flyleaves now used as pastedowns.

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