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I would be interested in seeing the images. There were manuscripts of
choir books do in Mexico in the 17th century. We have a dated example in
our small Kelly collection here at Johns Hopkins.
Tom Izbicki
At 02:19 PM 10/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>Dear Listmembers,
>The Mennonite University here in Winnipeg recently received a splendid
>donation of
>liturgical manuscripts and single leaves -- largely huge musical works --
>that were
>bought by the donor in Barcelona back in the 1970s. None of them came with
>provenances. I am particularly intrigued by the most impressive
>manuscript in the
>collection, easily the largest parchment manuscript I've even seen
>(probably c. 1 m
>high) which contains the music, I believe, for Vespers. The archivists
>there are
>throwing around a date of "15th century" but the elaborate, largely
>non-figural
>decoration looks to me later, perhaps even 17th century, although it has
>somewhat
>the appearance of naïve or folk art and is not easy, at least for me, to date.
>Frankly, I have no idea whether such large parchment choir manuscripts
>were still
>being made in Spain as late as the 17th century. On examining the manuscript
>yesterday for the first time, I spotted a short inscriptions in the
>elaborately decorated
>frontispiece that looks to me like it could possibly signal the location
>of the
>manuscript. It reads (as far as I could make out): Villalua Royo. Does
>this ring any
>bells with anyone? Does anyone know anything at all about these large choir
>manuscripts?
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
>PS The Mennonite University is going to try to post some images on a
>website in
>the near future, if anybody is interested in seeing them.
>
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