Music of the Renaissance Era : Manuscripts
Digital Collections (selected)
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)Also contains Renaissance sources. High-resolution images, including the complete Eton Choirbook. Searchable by text, composer, language, clef, voice-part, number of parts, and more! Free registration required in order to view images.
- CORSAIR, the Online Research Resource of The Pierpont Morgan Research Library (free Web)High resolution images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at The Pierpont Morgan Library. Includes some musical scores. Search by keyword or browse by country, time period, and manuscript type.
- Digital Scriptorium (free Web)High resolution images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts gathered from institutions all over the world. Collection hosted by Columbia University. Use Advanced Search to limit to desired time period or browse by a variety of categories.
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University (free Web)High resolution images of original manuscripts housed in the Oxford University libraries. Includes some treatises on music theory and a few scores. Find music-related items by typing "music" into the "Find" (CTRL+F) function text field.
Digital Exhibits (selected)
- Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture: MusicWeb presentation of a 1993 exhibit curated by the Library of Congress. Includes low resolution images accompanied by brief historical descriptions.
- Rome Reborn:... (high-resolution version)ibiblio's presentation of the Library of Congress Vatican exhibit with higher-resolution images.
Facsimiles in Mills Music Library
Facsimiles are graphic reproductions. They can be in photographic full color, photographic black and white, or non-photographic digital laser black and white.
Mills Music Library contains many facsimiles of rare original music manuscripts.
*video tutorial on how to search for facsimiles in MadCat coming soon*
Selected facsimile series:
