Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds du conservatoire MS Rés. 862, 73-88
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: ii + 88 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 166 x 223
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: Original index of the manuscript section is copied adjacent to the index of Petrucci's Motetti A (Rés. 861, f. 1v), by a different scribe. The pieces grouped alphabetically by incipits, with sub-grouping under each letter by order of appearance. Folio numbers mentioned in index extend to '101', indicating a loss of at least 13 folios.
Index in original spelling:
Ave mater gloriosa 95
Ave maria gratia plena 96
Ave vera caro christi 98
imnus in f. omnibus sanctis
Beata quos agmina 83
Benedicamus de apostolis 101
Benedicamus de domina 101
Imnus in ressurectione domini
Cuius corpus sanctissimum 76
Magnificat octavi toni
Et exaltavit spiritus 89
Magnificat octavi toni
Et exaltavis spiritus 92
Magnificat primi toni
Et exaltavi spiritus 99
Magnificat sexti toni
Et exaltavit apiritus 99
Imnus de uno martire
hic nempe mondi gaudi 86
Imnus Hostis herodes
Imnus in epiphania
Iban magi quas 75
Imnus in nativitate sancti Johanis babtiste
Noncius celso 79
Imnus de corpore christo
Nobis datus nobis 79
Imnus petri et pauli
Janito celi 80 /
O Beatum pontificem 97
Psalite deo nostro 94
Imnus tempore adventus
Qui condolens 73
Imnus temore ascenssionis
Que te vicit clemencia 77
Imnus in festo pentacostes
Qui paraclitus diceris 78
Imnus dominicarum
Qui mane iunctum verperi 84
Imnus dominicarum
Qui mane iunctum vesperi 84
Imnus unius conffesoris
Qui pius prudens 86
Imnus unius virginis
Qui pasis inter lilia 87
Imnus unius conffessoris
Qui pius prudens 87
Imnus s. marie
Sumens ilut ave 80
Imnus s. marie
Sumens ilut ave 81
letanie
S. Maria 101
Imnus nativitatis domini
Tu lumen tu splendor 73
Imnus apostolorum petri et pauli et aliorum
Vos secli justi judices 85
Other devices: 1. Original foliation ink top right, continuation of printed foliation in Rés. 861
2. Watermark in manuscript section resembles Briquet no. 475 or nos. 498-499; similar or identical watermark also found in print section.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, text on single line |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point and lead point | always | Text lines in hard point; justification lines in lead point. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | Initials and voice names are placed in the margins. | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | normally | 73v, 74v-79r, 80v-84r | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 80r, 81r, 83v, 84r, 88r |
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 | discantus | always | ||
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | rarely | 73-77r | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus | normally | 77v-88v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | 87r | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
often | All | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Added music for four voices indicated as C (contratenor), T (tenor), A (altus) and B (bassus). | 87v-88r |
Text
Types of script | hybrida |
Types of script size position | Voice names written vertically in larger script. |
Types of script note | Hybrida formata close to Gothico-Antiqua. |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | red brown Text written in red (ff. 73r-82r) and in brown (ff. 82v-88v) with some voice names written in black. |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions |
few
83v, 84v, 85r, 88v |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text |
Rubrics: 'Conditor alme siderum tempore adventus' (f. 73r); 'Christe Redemptor et c. In nativitate domini himnus' (f. 73v); 'In epiphania domini Himnus', added above by the same hand but in brown ink: 'Hostis herodis' (f. 74v); 'Ad cenam agni. In Ressurectione domini' (f. 75v); 'Jesu nostra redemptio Tempore ascensionis' (f. 76v); 'Veni creator spiritus in Festo penthecostes' (f. 77v); 'In festo Corporis christi' (f. 78v); 'In nativitate sancti Johannis Baptiste' (79v); 'In nativitate apostolorum petri et pauli (f. 80r); 'In assumptione Beate Marie' (f. 80v); 'In assumptione beate Marie et in omnibus. Fe. et comme.' (f. 81v); 'In festo omnium sanctorum' (f. 82v); 'In diebus dominicalibus' (f. 83v); 'In dominicis diebus' (f. 84v); 'In festivitatibus apostolorum' (f. 85r); 'In uno martire' (f. 85v); 'In nativitate plurimorum martirorum' (f. 86r); 'In uno confessore' (f. 86v); 'De una virgine' (f. 87r); in natalis unius confessoris' (f. 87v); 'Magnificat octavi toni' (f. 88v).,
73r, 73v, 74v, 75v, 76v, 77v, 78v, 79v, 80r, 80v, 81v, 82v, 83v, 84v, 85r, 85v, 86r, 86v, 87r, 87v, 88v |
Later changes |
Added text (late 16th or 17th century-hand) 'S. Maria ora pro eo ad dominum.',
87v-88r |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | occasionally | 73v, 74r, 75v | calligraphic with decoration | Large initials at the beginning of discantus and, occasionally, small at the beginning of voice names. | Calligraphic initials in black, in black and red with pen-flourished decoration in red or in red with pen-flourished decoration in brown. | |
penned initials | rarely | 74v | calligraphic with grotesque heads | Large initial at the beginning of discantus. | Calligraphic initial 'I'(bant) in red with pen-flourished decoration in brown and a profile-head of a woman in red, thought to be a portrait of Isabella d'Este (according to Bridgman 1967). | |
penned initials | normally | 74v-88v | calligraphic | Initials at the beginning of voice names, all except discantus | Calligraphic initials in red or black. | |
initials planned | often | 77v, 78v, 79v, 80r, 80v, 81v, 82v, 83v, 84v, 85r, 85v, 86r, 86v, 87r, 87v, 88v | Beginning of discantus. | Guide letters for planned initials. | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
always | decorative final long, embellished final barline | At the end of voice parts. | End symbols with attached line-fillers decorated with pen-flourishing in red and/or brown and various signs, such as coronae and signa congruentiae |