Research Catalog

Title

Music in medieval manuscripts / Nicolas Bell.

Author

Bell, Nicolas.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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Description

64 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 25 cm

Summary

• "Music was an important element of cultural life throughout the Middle Ages. Most of our knowledge of medieval music comes from surviving manuscripts, almost all of them connected in some way with the church. This book shows a selection from the British Library's rich manuscript collections.".
• "The history of music writing is covered from the earliest times until the fifteenth century, and the beautiful and often entertaining pictures of musicians in manuscripts show how music was performed."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Music > 15th century > History and criticism
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
• Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism
• Music > Manuscripts
• Musical notation > History > To 1500
• Music in art
• Paleography, Musical
• Iconography > Music

Note

• Co-published by the British Library.
• "List of manuscripts consulted"--P. 59-60.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [58]) and index.

ISBN

080208432X (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 47238189
• ocm47238189
• SCSB-4249888

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries