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MANUSCRIPT Mus.ms.40098, known as the Glogauer Liederbuch, is one of the best known 15th-century music collections originating from Central Europe. Its rich repertory, comprising 292 compositions, was published in four volumes as Das Erbe deutscher Musik;1 there is also a facsimile of the manuscript.2 This, however, does not mean that our knowledge about the Glogauer Liederbuch is anywhere near complete; the repertory still contains many puzzles: the purpose of the collection is unclear, and its provenance and the identity of the scribe present a number of issues. To a degree, this is the result of the manuscript’s fortunes in modern times: in 1941, to avoid the possibility of being destroyed by bombing, it was moved from the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin to Silesia, which at that time was within the borders of the Third Reich. After the Second World War, when, as a consequence of decisions taken at conferences in Teheran and Yalta, there was a dramatic shift of state borders in Central Europe, the Prussian collection came to be in Poland. Silence about its fate persisted for a long time: it was only in 1977 that the missing manuscripts and early printed books turned out to be held at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. Thus, although fortunately manuscript Mus.ms.40098 survived the war years, for decades it remained beyond the reach of scholars.
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