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Scope and Content Note
The Edmund A. Bowles Collection of Musical Iconography consists mostly of photostats and photographic prints of early music Iconography that Bowles collected during his career as a musicologist. The materials, dating from about 1300 to 1985, include representations of musical instruments and performance practices in sacred and courtly settings, with a significant amount dedicated to the history of the timpani. The collection features examples of musical iconography from diverse media, but the majority exist in manuscripts dating from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries from Western Europe.