Copied by Friedrich Lindner, who also wrote BerlDS 40023, NurGN 8820B, NurLA 28, NurLA 33 and NurLA 224 (see RubIC and ButlerLM for discussion of complex). Variant script on ff. 173'-189 possibly a different form of Lindner's hand, or may be work of second, unidentified scribe (ButlerLM). Copied in Nuremberg, for use at the Church of St. Egidien. Commissioned by Nuremberg city council; prepared under direction of Friedrich Lindner (ca. 1542-1597), cantor at St. Egidien, and Hieronymus Paumgartner, Jr., council administrator for church affairs. Later passed to von Tucher family of Nuremberg, who placed it in Germanisches Nationalmuseum following Franco-Prussian War. Returned to von Tucher family in 1877, but reacquired by Museum in 1885.

Original covers of light brown tooled leather over wooden boards, with brass clasps, edges, and bosses. Front covers stamped with letter 'Q' and medallion incorporating arms of city of Nuremberg and arms of Paumgartner family. Back covers stamped with representation of St. Egidien ministering to a wounded roe.

Nuremberg shield surmounted by coronet (generally resembles Briquet #916ff).

Title page on f. 3: 'Introitus et Alleluia quae in festis solemnibus per annum cantantur …'

black void mensural

Inscription on f. 169: 'Anno 1575. Pro felici auspicio et Introductione Scholae Novae Altorffiensis, quae facta est in ferijs Petri et Pauli Apostolorum. Fecit et scripsit Federicus Lindner, Cantor ad d: Agydij aedem sacram.' Inscription on f. 316: 'Laus Deo Foeliciter auspicatus hic liber Idi: Octob: Anno 1579.'

New pencil foliation, 1-317, by Walter Rubsamen.

Some inked calligraphic initials; attributions, voice designations, and rubrics in red ink.

paper

3 Masses, 29 Mass Proper sections, 7 responses = 39

Contini-26, Isaac-1, Ivo de Vento-1, Lindner-1, Massaini-3, Rener-1, Stoltzer-1, anon-5

i + 315 + i paper folios, 482 x 346. New pencil foliation, 1-317, by Walter Rubsamen. Blank folios: 1-2', 114'-117, 169'-173, 189'-190', 316'-317'. Original covers of light brown tooled leather over wooden boards, with brass clasps, edges, and bosses. Front covers stamped with letter "Q" and medallion incorporating arms of city of Nuremberg and arms of Paumgartner family. Back covers stamped with representation of St. Egidien ministering to a wounded roe. No index. Title page on f. 3: "Introitus et Alleluia quae in festis solemnibus per annum cantantur …"

Copied by Friedrich Lindner, who also wrote BerlDS 40023, NurGN 8820B, NurLA 28, NurLA 33, NurLA 224, and other manuscripts not within scope of this catalogue (see RubIC and ButlerLM for discussion of complex). Variant script on ff. 173'-189 possibly a different form of Lindner's hand, or may be work of second, unidentified scribe (ButlerLM). Some inked calligraphic initials; attributions, voice designations, and rubrics in red ink. Watermark: Nuremberg shield surmounted by coronet (generally resembles Briquet #916ff). Inscription on f. 169: "Anno 1575. Pro felici auspicio et Introductione Scholae Novae Altorffiensis, quae facta est in ferijs Petri et Pauli Apostolorum. Fecit et scripsit Federicus Lindner, Cantor ad d: Agydij aedem sacram." Inscription on f. 316: "Laus Deo Foeliciter auspicatus hic liber Idi: Octob: Anno 1579."

1575-9 (dates in manuscript). Copied in Nuremberg, for use at the Church of St. Egidien. Commissioned by Nuremberg city council; prepared under direction of Friedrich Lindner (ca. 1542-1597), cantor at St. Egidien, and Hieronymus Paumgartner, Jr., council administrator for church affairs. Later passed to von Tucher family of Nuremberg, who placed it in Germanisches Nationalmuseum following Franco-Prussian War. Returned to von Tucher family in 1877, but reacquired by Museum in 1885.