B-Br MS 5557 (Choirbook of the Burgundian Court Chapel)

Full title

B-Br MS 5557 ; Choirbook of the Burgundian Court Chapel ; Br5557

Projects

Catalogue of Polyphonic Marian Antiphons
Prosopography of Renaissance Singers

Performing forces

Cantus

Associated people

Antoine Busnoys - Copyist/Scribe
Charles le Téméraire - Dedicatee/Owner
Margaret of York - Dedicatee/Owner

Publication place and date

Brugge (Belgium)
1468/1480

Edition type

First edition

Catalogues

CENSUS BrusBR 5557
IDEM br-ms-5557

Digitisations

No digitisation.

Format

No information.

Number of volumes

Description

Five English Masses decorated with heraldry of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York, probably copied for their mariage in Bruges in 1468. Subsequently gathered with other Masses by Du Fay, Okeghem, etc., and filled with motets by Antoine Busnoys, perhaps in his own hand.

Works

2 in database

[no position] ff. 86v-88 Antoine Busnoys - Regina caeli [041]
[no position] ff. 88v-89 Antoine Busnoys - Regina caeli [042]

[no position] ff. 86v-88 Antoine Busnoys - Regina caeli [041]
[no position] ff. 88v-89 Antoine Busnoys - Regina caeli [042]

Holding institutions

1 copy in 1 institution

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Shelf mark

MS. 5557
Performing forces

Cantus

Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

David Fiala - Project manager

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

Data collectors

David Fiala

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