The 'Buxheim Organ Book' is a unique source for organ playing practice in southern Germany. It is considered to be the largest collection of organ music of the second half of the 15th century. Consists mainly of intabulations of German songs and settings of the ordinary of the mass, and on the fundamenta for organ, particularly for the tradition of the 'Fundamentum organisandi' of the Munich organist Conrad Paumann.

Written by one main hand (1-122) with additions by several others. Formerly owned by the Buxheim Charterhouse; acquired by the State Library in 1883 at auction.

174 ff.

Restored in 1959. ff i, v_v, 166(rv), 168v blank

Wooden boards covered in leather, blind-impressed

(i) Gothic letter P; (ii) Gothic letter P with stroke; (iii) two parallel keys; (iv) Gothic letter Y with cross

Tablature, with the upper part on a 7-line stave and the other parts below in alphabetical notation

Six 7-line staves per page

Original foliation (numbering of openings) 1-167. Modern numbering of pieces.

alphabetical table of contents ff. iv-v which does not include pieces from f. 122 onwards