Useful for looking at the evolution of music notation over time:
The Schoyen Collection

(there are three sections -- note the clickthroughs at the very bottom of each page)

I can't remember if I've linked this here before or not, but here it is (again?) anyway -- a beautiful 13th-century French manuscript songbook, full of interesting pieces by an array of trouvères: Recueil de chansons du XIIIe siècle, avec musique notéeI'm contemplating attempting to transcribe a song, mostly as an exercise in assessing exactly how ( Read more... )

*gurgle*

Did you all know about OMI Facsimiles?!? Did you know they put out things like this 1425 Oswald von Wolkenstein ms., and this black-page (!) basse danse ms., and this 15th-century Burgundian illuminated songbook, and this Florentine Quattrocento codex and... oh dear, the drool is making it difficult to type ( Read more... )

Ooh ooh ooh!!!

I didn't know the Llibre vermell de Montserrat was online! The whole thing! Music and miniatures and text and all ( Read more... )

"The Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia is pleased to announce the launch of a website devoted to their collections of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts ( Read more... )

A brief interlude before the next Pennsic entry... (yes, you're going to be hearing about Pennsic for a while, probably. Deal.)

Extremely tempting but geographically inconvenient (at least for me) happening:

THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL SAINT LOUIS CONFERENCE ON MANUSCRIPT STUDIES, 14-15 OCTOBER, 2005The Vatican Film Library is pleased to announced the ( Read more... )