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 19

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Bc 19

DIAMM Source Key: 1390

Basis for description: original

Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 19
(Rusconi Codex)

Provenance:

Later owned by the Rusconi family in Bologna; acquired in 1864 by Gaetano Gaspari for the library of the Liceo Musicale.

Bindings:

Italy (North)
reddish brown leather over pasteboard
Decoration: elaborate blind tooling and stamping, no bosses
golden brown edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
Covers original, on new binding (which itself is now fairly old)

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