Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria.
Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559
Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I

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Gaudeamus Omnes - An introit for #AllSaintsDay
From a #15thCentury #Italian #illuminated #gradual.
Sotheby's www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...

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Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks.
Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559.
BSB Mus. ms. B(1.
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Page from an early #16thCentury French #choirbook for #MaundyThursday:
Introit "Nos autem gloriari oportet", with an illuminated letter N showing the Last Supper.
Ella Strong Denison Library, Perkins 4

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Something for #StNicholasDay (6 December)
#Illumination by Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni in a #14thCentury #antiphonary showing #StNicholas staying the execution of 3 young men.

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