MunBS 510: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Musica MS 510 (=MaiM 4).

OVERVIEW

Size: 590 x 405, 179 parchment folios, no index, titles and attributions, blank folios separate each item, modern pencil foliation by J. J. Maier.

Scribe: probably P SL Gwalther.

Place and Brief History: Munich or Augsburg, probably intended for the Archbishop of Salzburg (1519-1540) Cardinal Matthaeus Lang; manuscript became part of the ducal court library in Munich the holdings of which formed the basis of the present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Date: late 1513-1519.

Covers and Decoration: gold-tooled dark brown leather on boards these being restored original covers; one miniature completed for the discantus on f. 1v; portrait and coat of arms of Cardinal Lang on f. 2r - drawn but not inked and coloured; all remaining spaces for decoration not filled.

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. 215-216.

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

(Also of note: majority of opening Kyries either fully (ff. 42v-43r) or partially (ff. 64v-65r, 87v-88r, 114v-115r, 160v-161r) untexted.

Folio Information and Variants:

ff. 114r-137v (13 pages)

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