A Bassus partbook from a set of five volumes, each consisting of the print RISM M2173, with manuscript additions. Copied by many scribes. Originated at the Löbau Latin school. The manuscript was at one time in the Löbau Ratsbibliothek, but was deposited at the library in Dresden in 1890.

D - 62ff; A - 53ff; T - 58ff; B - 68ff; Q - 48ff.

The books are in very poor condition; the folios are loose and torn, and water has washed away some of the ink.

Original covers of white tooled leather, stamped with the date 1567.

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Binding stamped with the date 1567, but the manuscript additions date from much later

No foliation. Modern pagination in pencil, continuous through all the five volumes: Altus begins at p. 124, Tenor at p. 231, Bassus at p. 348 and Quintus at p. 485

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1 Kyrie-Gloria pair, 7 Mass Proper sections, 3 psalms, 19 motets, 2 Latin/German sacred pieces, 70 German sacred pieces, 3 German secular pieces, 1 Latin secular piece = 106

A.-1, (Ahle)-1, (Calvisius)-1, Clemens non Papa-1, (Ebeling)-2, (Gastoldi)-5, (Goudimel)-4, (Grimm)-1, (Hammerschmidt)-3, Händl-2, Hassler [J.L.H.]-2, (C. Hollander)-1, (Lange)-1, (Lassus)-2, (Leisring)-1, (Löwenstern)-2, M.M.S.R.-1, Phinot-1, (Schein)-1, (Schütz)-1, (Vulpius)-1, Walter-1, anon-70

5 paper partbooks, each consisting of the print RISM M2173, with manuscript additions (DATBQ-condition too poor to count folios), ca. 150 x 200. The books are in very poor condition; the folios are loose and torn, and water has washed away some of the ink. No foliation. Original covers of white tooled leather, stamped with the date 1567. (The manuscript additions, however, date from much later). Copied by many scribes.

Ca. 1600-75 (SteudeMS). Originated at the Löbau Latin school. The manuscript was at one time in the Löbau Ratsbibliothek, but was deposited at the library in Dresden in 1890.