Details

Subject(s)

• Masses [Browse]
• Polyphonic chansons [Browse]
• Music—Manuscripts—Facsimiles [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Notes

• Original held in: Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett (D-Bkk), Ms. 78.C.28.
• "Concordant sources show that the textless pieces are mostly French chansons; there are also a few Italian and Spanish secular pieces and 2 Latin motets."--Census-catalogue, p. 59.
• "The initials and illumination ... were done in Florence, possibly at the workshop of the brothers Gherardo and Monte di Giovanni del Fora."--Census-catalogue, p. 60.
• Contains pieces attributed to Basin, Bedingham, Bedingham/Dufay, Bedingham/Dunstable, Bedingham/Frye, Binchois, Binchois/Frye, Dufay, Frye, J. Legrant, Morton, Plummer, Pullois and 26 anonymous pieces.
• Mass is a later addition; text of French secular piece added by a later hand.

Reproduction note

Microfilm. Kassel : Musikgeschichtliches Archiv, [19--]. 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm.

References

Contents and description in: Census-catalogue of manuscript sources of polyphonic music, 1400-1550 / compiled by the University of Illinois Musicological Archives for Renaissance Manuscript Studies. Neuhausen-Stuttgart : American Institute of Musicology, 1979- v. 1, p. 59-60 ; v. 4, p. 272 (BerlSM 78.C.28).

OCLC

52592138

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