Leopold-Codex

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Description

The small-scale codex is one of the most comprehensive musical manuscripts of the Josquin era, named after the composer Josquin Desprez (d. 1521). The music is mainly written in white mensural notation and is generally notated in a choral book arrangement. The collection contains 190 mainly sacred compositions written by more than 40 different hands during the period from 1466 to 1511. The writers were mainly members of the court chapel of Emperor Maximilian I (German King of the Romans: 1486-1519; Emperor from 1508) in Innsbruck. There it was probably gathered to form a collective volume, in which some of the sheets were placed in the wrong order. The manuscript carries its name because of the notes written by a Magister Nikolaus Leopold from Innsbruck ("Magistri nicolai leopoldi ex insprugga") claiming ownership on three of the fascicles, namely on fols. 264r, 370r and 444r. Datum: 2016

Author

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musikabteilung

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