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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

D-Ju MS Buder 4° 105
non-music MS, mid 15th c.
D-LÜh Ms Hist. 8° 1a
non-music MS, 15th century
I-BGc MA 418
Late-fifteenth-century calendar-psalter-hymnal with polyphony,
I-BGrt MS. 62
Calendar-psalter-hymnal with added polyphony, first half 16th century

Recently Updated Sources

I-Lc Biblioteca capitolare Feliniana 603
chant book with added polyphony, 12th century
D-B MS Lat. 4° 523
non-music MS with interpolated music on flyleaves, 13th - 14th century
A-Wn Fragm. 911
fragment of a motet manuscript, 13th century
D-Mbs Mus. MS 4775
fragment, 13th century
B-Br MS 10747
non-music MS with interpolated music, c. 1260