PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Mus. ant. theor. 30

Manuscript type: printed treatise with added polyphony

RISM siglum: D-B N. Mus. ant. theor. 30

DIAMM Source Key: 2824

Basis for description: original

Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Mus. ant. theor. 30

Provenance:

Probably copied in northern Italy. Handwritten music copied by a single scribe. Original owner and scribe apparently Johannes de Guascogna (inscription "Ad usum f. Johannes d. guascoa' at bottom of title page of print).

Bindings:

16th century,
beige parchment over pasteboard
Decoration: leaf from a 16th-century chant ms.
none edges
Endpapers: front and back: 5 leaves each (binio and bifolium with pastedown)
binding restored 2003 using original covers

Parts