The Lucca Choirbook is a remarkable collection of seventy polyphonic pieces, including seventeen settings of the Christian Mass ordinary, probably produced in Bruges around 1467-1470 with later additions. Signed by the scribe “Waghes,” the manuscript includes masses by the celebrated fifteenth-century composers Heinrich Isaac and Guillaume Dufay. The large book was disbound in the seventeenth century, and its parchment was used for binding notarial records. Only eighty-two of an estimated 290 leaves have been recovered. The surviving leaves bear signs of use as binding sheets, including fold lines, traces of glue, cuts, and added inscriptions.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Lucca Choirbook": The Lucca Choirbook facsimile edition, published by University of Chicago Press, 2008
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