BrusBR 6428: Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 6428.

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Size: 735 x 500 mm. i + 122 + i parchment folios with modern pencil foliation and index; in terms of height and width this is the largest source from the Brussels/Mechelen complex other than JenaU 4 which is .5cm larger in both height and width dimensions.

Scribe: several scribes from the Alamire workshop.

Place and Brief History: Brussels/Mechelen. More than likely a commission to the Alamire workshop from Emperor Maximilian either for himself or his daughter Margaret of Austria.

Date: ca. 1512.

Covers and Decoration: Modern cardboard covers; very regrettably, all of the miniatures and most borders and painted initials have been crudely removed; parts of those that do remain can be found on folios 1v, 62v, 86v (including letters HHH) and 106v; all inked calligraphic initials (which open sections and sub-sections of the settings) have been left other than the P (Patrem) on folio 21v - its absence suggests that perhaps this initial was painted. All items transmitted in the source are now incomplete due to the removal of the art work.

Literature:

Charles Hamm & Herbert Kellman (eds), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. I, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1979, p. 93.

Herbert Kellman, "Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 6428", in Herbert Kellman (ed.), The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Arts in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535, The University of Chicago Press, 2000, p. 71.

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