MunBS C: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung, Musica MS C (olim Cim. 210 = MaiM 6).

OVERVIEW

Size: 540 x 380, 208 parchment folios, no index, modern pencil foliation by J. J. Maier.

Scribe: probably Lucas Wagenrieder who also copied (either fully or in part) MunBS 1, 5, 10, 12, 19, 25, 31, 35, 37, 42 and 52.

Place and Brief History: Munich, possibly a commission by Count Ottheinrich; at some time placed in the Schatzkammer of the ducal court library which formed the foundation of the present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Date: late 1530s - early 1540s.

Covers and Decoration: Gold-tooled dark brown leather on boards, Bavarian coat of arms on spine; opening two pages of each mass (ff. 2v-3r, 41v-42r, 71v-72r, 100v-101r, 123v-124r, 144v-145r and 188v-189r) highly decorated with illuminated boarders and miniatures - including a portrait of Count Ottheinrich and his wife Susanna (sister to Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria) on f. 2v; coat of arms of Ottheinrich on f. 1r; calligraphic initials opening several of the Gloria, Credo and Sanctus sections, but never used for the Agnus dei.

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, pp. 233-234.

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

2v-41r	Heinricus Izac	Missa Virgo prudentissima
41v-71r	Josquin de press	Missa de beata virgine
71v-99r	Petrus de rue	Missa Incessament
100v-122r	[Matthaeus] Pipe	Missa Forseulement
123v-143r	[Noel Bauldeweyn]	[Missa En douleur en tristesse]
144v-187r	[Jheronimus Vinders]	[Missa Stabat mater dolorosa]
187v-188r	Johann Knofel	Er standen ist (later addition)
188v-206r	Petrus de rue	Missa pro defunctis
206v-208r	Orlandus [Lassus]	Da pacem domine (later addition)

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