London, Great Britain, Royal College of Music, MS 1070, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 134
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 287 x 190
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: Inscription on f. 79: "Mris A Bolleyne nowe thus," followed by musical motto of three minims and a longa.
Inscription on f. 116v : "Tuo te pede metire. Nosce teipsum ut noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex."
Inscription on f. 134v: "This MSS. is about 250 years old." Below this, a different hand has written: "that is in the year 1540."
Other devices: 1. Modern foliation pencil top right (William Barclay Squire, 1920s), 1-134.
2. Modern pagination pencil top centre (John Stafford Smith, late 18th or early 19th century), 1-267.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
103-132Preparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, only occasionally lines for text |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
ruled freehand, very even |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink and hard point | always | ink for bounding lines, hard point for text lines | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | always | c. 20 mm. For lower voicesmusic and text indented by the same amount to accommodate initials | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | void mensural, rhomboid shape, straight connected stems slightly tapered at tip |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Types of script note | At least two different scribes |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Verte instructions, occasionally |
Later changes | rarely |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very poor |
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | decorative final long |
Preparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, horizontal bounding line at bottom all the way across the page, text on single line within justification |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
ruled freehand, very even |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
red ink | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | normally | Staves 1 and 7, c. 20-30 mm. Even where no indented staves, music and text indented by the same amount to accommodate initials | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | ||
untexted | all voice parts | rarely |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shape slightly bent forward, straight separate stems slightly tapered at tip |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | rarely | |
Later changes | Folios | |
numerous corrections, some by scribe 1, some by scribe 2 ('editor') |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Types of script note | At least two different scribes |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Verte instructions, occasionally |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
painted initials | sometimes | 1-21 | decorated, flourished, zoomorphic initial | square or slightly squat rectangular initials, letters highlighted and flourished in ink and grey watercolour, on red and blue ground. Human figures and heads, animal and plant motives. | ||
initials planned | often | 22-102 | ||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
occasionally | decorative final long |
Preparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
never,
no lines |
Ruling pattern |
highly irregular
ruled freehand, very uneven |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
n/a | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | Music slightly indented over ruled staves at beginning of every voice part | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | always | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | void mensural, rhomboid shape, straight connected stems slightly tapered at tip |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly many |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | n/a |