Abstract
This chapter considers some material aspects of the codex Bolzano, Abbey of Muri Gries, Fragm. 2 (‘Bolz’). The manuscript arose from the reassembly of ten folios containing fifteenth-century polyphony which emerged in 2010 from the sixteenth-century binding of an urbarium from the old parish church of Gries. The folios, almost all fragmentary, form a small codex containing some twenty compositions, mostly Marian antiphons by English composers. The discovery was presented at MedRen in 2013 and is described in a contribution in Early Music in 2015. Palaeographic features (script, watermark, ruling) closely link the Bolzano codex with Tr93, which was studied by Peter Wright. He was fascinated by the discovery of the ‘new’ codex, which he renamed ‘Bolz’, and began to study it. Although he could not complete the planned facsimile, he was able to identify two 'nwe' pieces contained in the manuscript. This chapter presents these two identifications and analyses the scribal hands of Bolz on the basis of Peter Wright’s detailed study of Tr93.