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2-487: The Glogauer Liederbuch (Glogau Song Book) is a Liederhandschrift (medieval songbook) of sacred and secular songs and instrumental music, written about 1480. It is the earliest surviving set of partbooks ( descant , tenor , and contratenor ) and an important source of 15th century musical material. The manuscript is named after the town of Glogau (present-day Głogów) in Lower Silesia . Formerly kept at

4-861: The Prussian State Library in Berlin , it was taken to Grüssau Abbey , Silesia, in 1941 to protect it from Allied bombing . Under Polish sovereignty after the Second World War , it apparently disappeared until in 1977 the missing manuscripts and early printed books from Berlin were found to be in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków , where it now resides as part of the Berlinka art collection. Liederhandschrift Liederhandschrift , German for Manuscript of

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