PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 11239

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: B-Br 11239

DIAMM Source Key: 1633

Image repositories: IDEM

Basis for description: original

Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 11239
(Chansonnier of Margaret of Austria)

Provenance:

c. 1500 Bayot 1909; before 1501 (manuscript antedates Margaret of Austria's marriage to Philibert II of Savoy) (Picker 1963). Copied in Savoy (Picker 1963, based on coat of arms and French style of illuminations). Listed in an inventory of Margaret's book in Mechelen in 1523/4, and also bears the Ex Libris of Mary of Hungary, Margaret's successor (r. 1531-1555)

Bindings:

c. 1500, Savoy
black silk over wood
gilt edges
Endpapers: none
Rebound in the 19th century, with new spine and with only parts of the original silk covers surviving. Only traces of the gilt edges remain.

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