The Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books also holds music manuscripts with music pieces predominantly in one voice up to the year 1500, as well as some codices with music in several voices, bearing the shelf marks Mus.ms. (individual shelf mark Mus.ms. 3725 and alphabetic string from A to C), Clm and Cgm.

Well-known music manuscripts from the collection of the Department of Manuscripts are i. a. the "Mensural Codex of St. Emmeram" (Clm 14274), the "Buxheim Organ Book" (Mus.ms. 3725) and the ornamental manuscripts of the penitential psalms of Orlando di Lasso crafted by Hans Mielich (Mus.ms. A I and II plus annotation volumes) and the motets by Cipriano de Rore (Mus.ms. B plus annotation volume).

All other manuscripts with music in several voices form part of the collections of the  Department of Music.

As far as the approximately 300 modern papers of musicians are concerned, the music manuscripts and sheet music are held by the Music Department (group of shelf marks Mus.ms. and Mus.pr.), the "literary" part (letters, documents, etc.) is held and catalogued by the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (shelf mark Ana).

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 Department of Music