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DIAMM (the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) is a leading resource for the study of medieval manuscripts. We present images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts on this website. We also provide a home for scholarly resources and editions, undertake digital restoration of damaged manuscripts and documents, publish high-quality facsimiles, and offer our expertise as consultants.

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The Anne Boleyn Music Book

Sold out from DIAMM, but copies may still be available from the library of the Royal College of Music.

The Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut MS

The most hidden of all the Machaut manuscripts is now the most available. Winner of the American Musical Society 2015 Claude V. Palisca Prize for the most outstanding scholarly edition or translation in the field of musicology published in 2014.

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Recently Added Sources

I-BRq MS. E. VIII.28
Liturgical ms with added polyphony, Fourteenth or fifteenth century
IRL-Dm Z1.2.16
Printed book with added polyphony, after 1503
D-B Ham. 554
Psalter with hymnary, with added polyphony, 14th to 15th century
CH-FF CL 8438
binding fragment, late 15th to mid 16th century
A-KN Cod. 69
manuscript of polyphony, late 16th c. (c. 1589-94)

Recently Updated Sources

D-Mbs Mus. MS 3154 (Leopold Codex)
manuscript of polyphony, c. 1466-1511
I-Mfd MS 2266 (Librone 4)
choirbook, Early 16th century
D-Ju MS 30
manuscript of polyphony, 1500-20 (MGG)
B-Br MS 5557
manuscript of polyphony, Second half 15th century
I-VEc MS DCCLVI
manuscript of polyphony, c. 1508?