PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 18 (olim 143)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Bc 18

DIAMM Source Key: 1389

Image repositories: Gaspari Online

Basis for description: original

Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 18 (olim 143)

Provenance:

Later owned by Padre Martini

Bindings:


brown leather over pasteboard
Decoration: elaborate blind tooling and stamping, bosses no longer extant
golden brown edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
Endpapers: Front: bifolium flyleaf with pastedown as part of current binding, one flyleaf of original bifolium, front stub pasted onto leaf, followed by two stubs in binding. Back: bifolium flyleaf with pastedown Covers original, on new binding (which itself is now fairly old)

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