A Discantus partbook from a set of five volumes. Copied by one scribe, probably Melchior Kugelmann. Twelve of the pieces are dedicatory works for various members of the Danish court at Copenhagen and the Prussian court at Königsberg. Probably copied at the Danish court in Copenhagen, for Princess Dorothea, daughter of Frederick I and sister to Christian III, who married Duke Albert of Prussia in 1525. The manuscript was once in the Herzogliche Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel; it later belonged to the French scholar F. L. Perne (1772-1832), and then to F. J. Fétis (it bore the number '1433' in the catalogue of his library). The Bibliothèque Royale acquired the manuscript from the Fétis collection.

Original covers of tooled leather, with voice designations, medallions, and floral designs. The cassette in which the books are kept has a picture of Princess Dorothea, wife of Duke Albert of Prussia, with the inscription: 'V(on) G(ottes) G(naden) Dorothea).'

black void mensural

Other numberings: original numbering of pieces in all books.

foliation excludes an unspecified number of blank folios at the end of each book. New pagination in DAT

paper

16 German sacred pieces, 9 German secular pieces = 25

(Isaac)-1, (J. Kugelmann)-1, (M. Kugelmann)-5 + 2?, (Senfl)-5, (Sporer)-1, (Stoltzer)-1, (Willaert)-1, anon-8

5 paper partbooks (D-19 folios, A-21, T-70, B-20, Q-19), 50 x 75. (The count of folios does not include a number of blank folios at the end of each book). New pagination in DAT; original numbering of pieces in all books. Original covers of tooled leather, with voice designations, medallions, and floral designs. No index. Copied by one scribe, probably Melchior Kugelmann. The cassette in which the books are kept has a picture of Princess Dorothea, wife of Duke Albert of Prussia, with the inscription: "V(on) G(ottes) G(naden) Dorothea)." Twelve of the pieces are dedicatory works for various members of the Danish court at Copenhagen and the Prussian court at Königsberg.

1540-7 (GlahnNK). Probably copied at the Danish court in Copenhagen, for Princess Dorothea, daughter of Frederick I and sister to Christian III, who married Duke Albert of Prussia in 1525. The manuscript was once in the Herzogliche Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel; it later belonged to the French scholar F. L. Perne (1772-1832), and then to F. J. Fétis (it bore the number "1433" in the catalogue of his library). The Bibliothèque Royale acquired the manuscript from the Fétis collection.