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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 Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut MS

The most hidden of all the Machaut manuscripts. 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

GB-Eu [pr. bk.] De.8.83
music added to printed book, 16th century
GB-En [pr. bk.] RB.x.002 ('Glamis' copy of the Aberdeen Breviary)
polyphony added to a printed book, 16th century
GB-Cu [pr. bk.] L.8.6 ('Plutarch fragment')
binding fragment, c. 1550s-1570s

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PL-WRu MS I.Q.438a
fragment of organ tablature, 15th century
PL-WRu MS R.3067
chant book with added polyphony, 15th century (1442 - 68)
PL-WRu MS I.Q.466
theory treatise and non-music MS with added polyphony, 15th century (1416 - 21)
PL-WRu MS I.Q.132
non-music MS with interpolated music, 15th century (1423)
PL-WRu MS I.O.110
chant book with added polyphony, 15th century