Cambridge Music Manuscripts 900 1700

This volume marks the exhibition ''Cambridge Music Manuscripts 900-1700'' mounted in the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982. It draws together fifty-three manuscripts of polyphony and monophony from the college and university libraries of Cambridge all selected for their textual and historical importance. A full technical description of each source is followed by a critical appraisal and in most cases at least one illustration is provided. Many of these manuscripts have never been adequately described in print and this book will be a valuable work of reference for musicologists historians and paleographers. Its plates will also provide a varied selection of transcription exercises for students of notation.