This Research Guide, Anthologies of Musical Works in Print and Manuscript from the 15th-17th Centuries in the Library of Congress Music Division, serves as a supplement to a large annotated bibliography under the same title.

The Music Division’s collection of pre-1700 anthologies, individually itemized in the accompanying bibliography, comprises:

• 306 individual imprints or manuscripts
• an estimated 1,000 individual composers
• an estimated 90 publishers
• over 12,000 individual compositions
• one anthology in manuscript dating from the 15th century; 80 volumes created/ published in the 16th century; and, 225 items dating from the 17th century

This bibliography also includes:

• Composer Index: coordinates the contents from the 306 featured anthologies with all composer attributions via relevant RISM numbers
• Appendix A: a short title index of published works arranged by publisher
• Appendix B: a second short title index featuring works in manuscript roughly sorted by genre
• Key Sources: materials consulted while researching and compiling this work, listed at the end of the document