's HerAB 72A: 's-Hertogenbosch, Archief van de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap MS 72A

Size: 560 x 384, ii + 151 paper folios; two modern pencil foliations; blank folios: 1r, 19r, 82v-83r, 101v-102r, 126v-127r and 150v-15r; between folios 51r and 53r two folios with 52a and 53b numbering respectively.

Scribe: several hands from the Alamire workshop contributed to the 's HerAB 72A-C mini-complex.

Place and Brief History: Brussels/Mechelen; possibly a commission from the Confraternity of Our Illustrious Lady, with last restoration (one of several) in 1985.

Date: early 1530s

Covers and Decoration: Brown leather with blind-tooled lozenge design, painted calligraphic initials with caricatures and grotesques and other inked calligraphic initials for all pages opening sections and sub sections of the masses; brass buckles and clasps.

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. 268.

Véronique Roelvink, "'s-Hertogenbosch, Archief van de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap, MS 72C", in Herbert Kellman (ed.), The Treasury of Petrus Alamire: Music and Arts in Flemish Court Manuscripts, 1500-1535, The University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 82-83.

Véronique Roelvink, Gegeven den sangeren: meerstemmige muziek bij de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap te 's-Hertogenbosch in de zestiende eeuw, Adr. Heinen, 's-Hertogenbosch, 2002, pp. 110 ff. and 115-118.

Albert Smijers, "Meerstemmige muzieke van Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap te 's-Hertogenbosch", Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 16, 1946, pp. 1-30.

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