PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.117

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Fn 117

DIAMM Source Key: 1404

Basis for description: original

Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.117

Provenance:

1. Inscribed: 'D[omi]no Nicc[ol]o d'Alexandro Antonio' (f. 28r) and 'D[omi]no Ant[oni]o di Jaccopo' f. [65]v, 16th century; 2. Biblioteca Medicea Palatina Lotaringia, the collection of Francis I (Francis Stephen, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Holly Roman Emperor (b. 1705, d. 1765), that incorporated earlier Medici collections: its stamp with the arms of Medici-Lorraine (f. 2r); donated in 1771 to the Biblioteca Magliabechiana, the future Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale: label 'Selezione Magliabechiana; with the shelfmark 'Magl. XIX 117' and provenance note 'Provenienza Med. Pal' (inside front cover).

Bindings:

Florence, Italy
brown leather over wood
Decoration: Stamped floral and geometrical ornament
no edges
Endpapers: front and back: 1 endpaper with pastedown
Original leather covers used in a modern binding.

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