A Bassus partbook from an incomplete set of three, consisting of the prints RISM R273O, U125, V1118, S1155, E170, H1724, S1147, S6030, 1574/10, and S6045, with manuscript additions. The manuscript additions occupy D-47 folios, T-4 folios, B-45 folios. Copied by several scribes; scribal concordances with some other WrocU manuscripts. Formerly owned by Brieg Gymnasial-Bibliothek; transferred to present location in 1890.

In the Tenor book. most prints and most of original manuscript addition sections are now missing. (Only nos. 17-20 remain in Tenor book.)

Rebound in modern covers of black cardboard; each book has modern paper flyleaf at front and back. Original covers of plain parchment now bound in as second flyleaf at front and penultimate flyleaf at back of each book.

Watermark: wild boar (see Briquet #13574ff for general pattern)

black void mensural

Sporadic new pencil foliation; some folios not taken into account by enumeration

Small inked calligraphic initials.

Paper

Manuscript additions: 1-3 at beginning; 5-8 after 1st print; 10-11 after 2nd print; 13 after next print; 15 after following print; 17-20 after 5th print; 22-25 after 6th print; 27-32 after 7th print; 34-37 after 8th print; 40-46 at end (no. 45 only in Bassus). (Kuhn numbers the prints as 4, 9, 12, 14, 16, 21, 26, 33 and 38-39.)

5 motets (1 with alternate German sacred text), 2 German sacred pieces, 29 German secular pieces = 36

Belitz-2, Benhonius-1, (Clemens non Papa)-1, Dressier-1, Händl-3, (Ivo de Vento)-1, Knöfel-3, Lange-3 + 1?, (Meiland) -1, Scandello-1, (D. Wolkenstein)-1, anon-17

3 paper partbooks, consisting of the prints RISM R273O, U125, V1118, S1155, E170, H1724, S1147, S6030, 1574/10, and S6045, with manuscript additions (D-47 folios, T-4, B-45), 154 x 201. (Preceding count of folios includes only manuscript additions; in T book, most prints and most of original manuscript addition sections now missing). Sporadic new pencil foliation; some folios not taken into account by enumeration. Rebound in modern covers of black cardboard; each book has modern paper flyleaf at front and back. Original covers of plain parchment now bound in as second flyleaf at front and penulti-mate flyleaf at back of each book. No index. Copied by several scribes; scribal concordances with some other WrocU manuscripts described in this catalogue. Small inked calligraphic initials. Watermark: wild boar (see Briquet #13574ff for general pattern).

1580 (date in manuscript). Copied in Brieg (= Brzeg). Formerly owned by Brieg Gymnasial-Bibliothek; transferred to present location in 1890.