oa Joining the Dots: Tylman Susato and Manuscript Production after Alamire

The printer and composer Tylman Susato is known also to have been a scribe, but no manuscript written by him has formerly been identified. Lucca, Biblioteca Statale, Ms. 775 [LucBS 775] and the major portion of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 260 [MunBS 260] are probably in a single hand, most likely that of Susato. An examination of their repertories suggests that MunBS 260 was linked partly with the Confraternity of Our Lady in Antwerp and partly with the Antwerp town band, to both of which Susato was closely connected. Susato obtained some of his repertory from Italy, most probably Gardane in Venice. The common repertory between Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Ms. Mus. 18832 from the Alamire workshop and MunBS 260 is re-examined; both manuscripts seem to have drawn on a single collection of pre-prepared duo material, probably used by the Antwerp town band. Susato’s probable involvement in the preparation of Whalley, Stonyhurst College, Ms. B.VI.23 (an important diplomatic gift from the Habsburg courts) is explored, which in turn links Susato in some way to a group of later manuscripts from the Low Countries.