All parchment fragments containing musical notation—reused as reinforcing hinges in the construction of matrices from the museum’s collection—were carefully digitized. In total there were 22 fragments drawn from approximately 200 boxes; eight of these appear to originate from one or more choirbooks featuring polyphonic music from the workshop of Petrus Alamire. Other fragments contain plainchant or simply blank staves.

A significant first: this unique collection of fragments had never been photographed or documented in this manner before. Ultraviolet photography revealed valuable information no longer visible to the naked eye, due to the often fragile or damaged condition of the materials. Each fragment will now be meticulously studied and identified by the Alamire Foundation, after which the digitized images, accompanied by detailed metadata, will be published on the Integrated Database for Early Music. In addition to this work, the Alamire Digital Lab also digitized a fifteenth-century antiphonary, as well as several printed editions by Phalesius and Bellerus, and Phalesius Jr. An unexpected discovery during the digitization process was a seventeenth-century lute tablature, found folded and bound within an archival document from the collection. This musical piece appears to be previously undocumented and thus constitutes a valuable addition to the known corpus of Antwerp lute music from the period.