page_title: Jacobus Barbireau
hierarchical_section_title: Jacobus Barbireau
caption_attribution_description: Manuscript page with the five-voice "Kyrie" of the Missa Virgo Parens Christi by Jacques Barbireau (ca.1420-1491). Early 16th century manuscript (Capp. Sist. 160 fols. 2 verso-3 recto music25 NB.06), now held in the Vatican, probably produced at the court of Margaret of Austria in Flanders, dedicated as a gift to Pope Leo X (whose coat of arms is pictured in the middle of the right-hand page.)
context_page_description: Jacobus Barbireau was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer from Antwerp. He was considered to be a superlative composer both by his contemporaries and by modern scholars; however, his surviving output is small, and he died young.
context_section_description: Jacobus Barbireau (also Jacques or Jacob; also Barbirianus) (1455 – 7 August 1491) was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer from Antwerp.  He was considered to be a superlative composer both by his contemporaries and by modern scholars; however, his surviving output is small, and he died young.
caption: An illuminated copy of the Missa Virgo parens Christi by Jacobus Barbireau; composed in the late 15th century, copied in the early 16th century as part of a gift to Pope Leo X
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