MontsM 765: Montserrat, Biblioteca del Monestir MS 765.

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Size: 500 x 360 143 parchment folios, one folio after 1v missing, no index, modern pencil foliation.

Scribe: one principal scribe with folios 66v-90r copied by another who also copied MontsM 769, 771 and 776.

Place: Brussels for the court of The Regent of the Netherlands- Mary of Hungary (daughter of Philip the Fair and Juana of Spain).

Date and Brief History: around 1540; following Mary's retirement to Spain, manuscript taken to Valladolid and later moved to Guadalajara; then passed to Philip II (King of Spain 1527-1598) in 1558 and is listed as item 25 in the inventories of Philip's books; in 1620 was bought by the Real Convento de las Señoras de la Encarnaçion in Madrid and subsequently acquired by the Benedictine monastery at Montserrat during the 1920s.

Covers and Decoration: Brown leather over boards tooled with decorative designs, brass buckles and corners, suede leather spine, calligraphic initials, miniatures and/or painted initials removed (folios 1v, 40v-41r, 66v, 91v and 116v) with loss of some music (folios 1v, 41v and 116v).

Literature:

Herbert Kellman & Charles Hamm (eds), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. II, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1982, p. 177.

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