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

OVERVIEW

Size: 555 x 380, ii + 168 paper folios; two modern pencil foliations with folio 2 now missing; blank folios separate the masses other than filled in folios 87v-88r.

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.

Date: early 1530s

Covers and Decoration: Brown leather with blind-tooled lozenge design, calligraphic initials for all pages opening sections and sub sections of the masses and for the motet; 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, pp. 268-269.

Véronique Roelvink, "'s-Hertogenbosch, Archief van de Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap, MS 72B", 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. 81-83.

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 118-121.

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

THE MANUSCRIPT

Contents:

Folio information and variants:

ff. 40v-87r: (24 pages)

ff. 134v-153r: (10 pages)

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