The Music Library holds many score anthologies of early music. A monument of music is an anthology containing works by diverse composers from a certain historical period or country. Some may provide the only sources of scores by lesser-known composers. Most of the monuments have the call number M2. The following are important examples:

Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (M2 .R2383)

Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance (M2 .R2384)

Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque (M2 .R238)

The English Madrigalists (M2 .F413)

English School of Lutenist Song Writers (M2 .F42)

Tudor Church Music (M2 .T91)

Das Erbe deutscher Musik (The Heritage of German Music) (M2 .E68)

Musica Britannica (M2 .M638)

Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth-Century (M2 .P652)

Corpus of Early Keyboard Music (M2 .C822)

Corpus Mensurabalis Musicae (various call numbers in M2 and M3)

Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst (Monuments of German Music) (M2 .D39)

Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (Monuments of Musical Art in Austria) (M2 .D36)