Missa quatuor vocum cui titulus: Fiat Pax. HM5 . Setting for 4 voices: Superius, Tenor, Contra, and Bassus in choirbook format

by Henri Madin

$1,200 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Tall folio. Disbound. 2ff. elaborate preliminary title, dedication , i secondary title incorporating large vignette featuring a winged horse , 2-39, i notice attesting to the Royal privilege Ballard enjoyed to print music in France . Typeset music in diamond-head notation. With woodcut headpieces and historiated initials.Three measures of musical notation in manuscript and some early humorous drawings to verso of second leaf, possibly executed by a young chorister.

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