An Altus partbook from a set originally of four volumes: the other surviving volumes are B-Br IV 90 (Discantus) and Tournai, Bibl., 94 (Tenor). Copied by two scribes (ff. 1'-16 and ff. 16'-29' respectively). First scribe also wrote ff. l'-16' of TourBV 94 and most of LonBL 35087; second scribe also wrote ff. 17-30' of TourBV 94 (KesselsC). Bought from antiquarian bookseller C. Van Loock (Brussels) in January 1996.

Original covers of brown leather stamped with animal figures and inscription: 'Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / Christi librum hunc / recte ligavi'; Louis Bloc active as bookbinder in Bruges 1484-1529 (IndS).

Modern foliation, 1-32, on lower left rectos (includes rear flyleaf; ff. 3, 6, 28, and 30 now missing; some folios bear two different numbers).

Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style; inked calligraphic initials.

parchment

1 motet, 1 motet-chanson, 14 French secular pieces, 6 Flemish secular pieces = 22

(A. Agricola/Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Barbireau/Obrecht)-1, (Busnois/Japart/La Rue)-1, (Compère)-3, (Compère/Obrecht) -1, (Hayne van Ghizeghem)-1, (Josquin)-4, (Josquin/Ninot le Petit)-1, (La Rue/Obrecht)-1, (La Rue/Pipelare)-1, (Obrecht)-1, (Ockeghem)-1, anon-5

1 parchment partbook (D-i + 26 + i folios), 78 x 110. TourBV 94 is the tenor partbook of this set. Modern foliation, which takes into account missing ff. 3, 6, 28; ff. 27 and 29 are incorrectly numbered 28 and 30. Original leather covers, blind-tooled with animal figures and borders inscribed: "Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / xpristi librum hunc / recte ligavi"; Louis Bloc, book-binder, was active in Bruges, 1484-1529 (IndS). Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style, almost identical to those in TourBV 94; inked calligraphic initials.

Date 1511 found in an initial on f. 21 of TourBV 94. Copied in Bruges (HuysDG).

Vol 4

Contents: 1 motet, 1 motet-chanson, 14 French secular pieces (3 incomplete), 6 Dutch secular pieces (2 incomplete) = 22

Composers: Change "(Barbireau/Obrecht)-1" to "(Barbireau/Isaac/Obrecht)-1."

Physical: 1 parchment partbook of an original 4 (D-i + 27 + i folios), 78 x 110. TourBV 94 is T book from same original set; AB books now lost. Modern foliation, 1-32, on lower left rectos (includes rear flyleaf; ff. 3, 6, 28, and 30 now missing; some folios bear two different numbers). Original covers of brown leather stamped with animal figures and inscription: "Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / Christi librum hunc / recte ligavi"; Louis Bloc active as bookbinder in Bruges 1484-1529 (IndS). Copied by two scribes (ff. 1'-16 and ff. 16'-29' respectively). First scribe also wrote ff. l'-16' of TourBV 94 and most of LonBL 35087; second scribe also wrote ff. 17-30' of TourBV 94 (KesselsC). Miniatures and borders illuminated in Ghent-Bruges style; inked calligraphic initials.