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Der Mensuralkodex St. Emmeram: Faksimile der Handschrift Clm 14274 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen. Kommentar and Inventar von Ian Rumbold, unter Mitarbeit von Peter Wright. Einfuhrung von Martin Staehelin. Herausgegeben von der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek und Lorenz Welker. (Elementa musicae, 2.) Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2006. [Vol. 1: foreword in Ger., Eng. by Rolf Griebel, p. vii-xii; introduction, p. 1-4, 67-70; commentary, p. 5-66, 71-114; inventory, p. 115-42; manuscript sources, p. 143-45; bibliography, p. 147-52. Vol. 2: facsimile (color), fols. 1-159. ISBN (invalid) 3-89500-473-X, 978-3-89500-473-Y; ISBN (corrected) 3-89500-506-1, 978-3-89500-506-0. [euro]250.]
A new facsimile of a half-millennium-old manuscript needs to know who its audience will be. Reproductions of stunningly beautiful sources, such as the Squarcialupi Codex or the newly available Chansonnier Cordiforme, need little justification, for they entice the scholar, student, and buyer with a sheer brilliance unknowable in modern transcription. But what of more mundane, everyday manuscripts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance? How do they justify their high prices and shelf space?
This new facsimile edition provides the answers. Visually, the St. Emmeram Codex is a decidedly unspectacular Germanic source from the mid-fifteenth century. Lacking even a single illumination, copied by scribes content to use just black and red inks, it is the type of source that in the past would have been studied only through modern editions and grainy microfilms. Yet opening the new facsimile immediately makes the importance of the new publication obvious. Seeing the manuscript in facsimile is like beginning an archeological dig through layer upon layer of scribal decisions, reorganizations, and interpolations, none of which are apparent in a modern inventory or edition. One encounters black notation and pieces from the dawn of the...
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