Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 17 (olim 148), All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: ii + 76 + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 115 x 190
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: Later table of contents (18th century?) with numbering on separate piece of paper pasted onto f. Ir; alphabetical list of composers with folio numbers in another earlier - but not contemporary - hand (also 18th century) on f. Iir
Other devices: 1. Early foliation reddish brown ink top right, 2-9, 11-78; 2. Later foliation 2-5, 7, 8(=9), 11-17, 32-33, 34-35, 39-41, 42(=43), 59-78
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
one prick per page in outer margin in the middle of page, corresponding to top line of fourth stave (2-38, 49-78) or bottom line of third stave (39-48). |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves |
never,
n/a |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
reddish brown ink | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
reddish brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
triple rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | no indented staves, music indented over 1 stave to accommodate non-executed initials 9-13 mm | |
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 |
partial additional staves | occasionally | staves slightly extended into margin, occasionally, ff. 5r, 6v, 8r, 14r, 15r, 16r, 17r, 30r, 32r, 35v, 44r, 52v, 53r, 64v, 65r, 66r, 69r |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Flemish, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
provided with single incipit | all voice parts | normally | ||
untexted | all voice parts | occasionally |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Colour of notation note | <p>in places flaking off the page</p> |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | ||
pointers | ||
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
often | tapered lines after final barline at the end of almost every voice, sometimes followed by a decorative flourish | |
Later changes | Folios | |
later additions on blank staves, all in same hand, hasty and irregularly shaped and spaced round notes in slightly lighter reddish-brown ink |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | n/a |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Composer ascriptions throughout on top verso where pieces begin, same hand as text incipits. Occasional canon instructions, 'residuum' notes, also same hand |
Later changes | added scribblings in Italian on f. 22v, mostly later erased |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
initials planned | always | small guard letters for initials, usually in left hand margin, more rarely in space left by indent, D only. In other voices initial almost always executed as part of incipit (not added later), in spite of indent in all voices | ||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
occasionally | decorative final long | elongated decorative final long | ||||
sometimes | signa congruentiae | decorative signa congruentiae from one side of the opening to the other where voices cross |