Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.117, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: ii + 64 +ii
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 162 x 244
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation, recto top right, [1]-88 (ff. 28-31, 35-36, 43-44, 47-61, 84, and 89 now missing; ff. 1, 22-23, 25-27, 32-33, 45-46, 62-63, 85, and 88 lack numbers).
2. Two sets of modern pencil foliations, one recto top right, one recto bottom left, both 1-64: in the upper right corner and in the lower left corner, both 1-64.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid | always |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | always | Vertical bounding lines only. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | often | 1r-3r, 4v-9r, 10v-13r, 14v-17r, 18v-22r, 24v-26r, 29v-35r, 40v-43r, 44v-46r, 48v-58r, 60r, 61v-64r | Indentation of music and text over ruled staves; occurs on all or some voice parts--if the latter usually the lower voices. |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
partial additional staves | rarely | 29r | drawn free hand |
notation extended into margin | rarely | 27r-v, 34v, 56r | |
staves extended into margin | rarely | 33r | |
staveline added | rarely | 1r, 7v, 12v, 15r, 42r, 59v | |
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | 3r, 7r, 9r, 10r, 13r, 14v, 16r, 24r, 26v, 29r, 31r, 33v, 34r, 42v, 43r, 50r-v, 51v-52r, 53r, 55r, 56r, 57v |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French, Italian, Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one or two texts | all voice parts | often | 1r-13r, 18v-19r, 29v-33r, 34v-35r, 44v-46r, 48v-52r, 55v-58r, 63v-64v | |
untexted | all voice parts | sometimes | 19v-22r, 23v-26r, 27v-28r, 41v-42r, 46v-48r, 58v-63r | |
fully texted with one text | discantus | occasionally | 13v-17r, 33v-34r, 42v-43r, 52v-55r | |
untexted | all except discantus | occasionally | 13v-18r, 35v-36r, 40v-41r, 53v-55r | |
provided with single incipit | discantus | rarely | 17v-18r, 35v-36r, 40v-41r | |
partially texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 26v-27r | |
untexted | all except tenor | rarely | 26v-27r | |
fully texted with one text | bassus | rarely | 28v-29r | |
untexted | all except bassus | rarely | 28v-29r | |
untexted | tenor | rarely | 33v-34r | |
partially texted with one text | bassus | rarely | 33v-34r | |
fully texted with one text | discantus and tenor | rarely | 42v-43r, 52v-53r | |
untexted | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 52v-53r | |
partially texted with one text | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 42v-43r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid noteheads; added music in round or teardrop-shaped noteheads |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Level of calligraphy note | calligraphy of added music is poor. |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
end symbol | 1r, 13r, 18v-21r, 25v-26r, 31r, 33r, 48r, 49r, 51r, 52v | |
repeat signs | 17v-18r, 21v, 24v-25r | |
signa congruentiae | 43r | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Music drafts added on blank staves by Francesco Corteccia, often in score format, often with much correction/barring. | 20r, 22v-23r, 29v, 30v, 31v, 32v, 33v, 36r40r, 41v-42r, 44r, 58v-59v, 60v |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy |
fair,
Calligraphy of added pieces is poor. |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
14r-v, 17r, added to blank staves/blank space on same opening |
Liminary text |
verte (cito): 8v-9r, 40v, 45v, 58v-59r, 62r
composer's name: 17v-19r, 35v, 39v, 59v,
8v-9r, 17v-19r, 35v, 39v, 40v, 45v, 58v-59v, 62r |
Later changes |
non musical texts added to blank spaces,
verso of original front flyleaf, 22r, 28r, recto of original end flyleaf |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | often | 1r-9r, 10v-13r, 29r-35v, 42v-43r, 44v-46r, 48v-59r | calligraphic | One stave high, at start of each voice, on or before the stave. | f. 5v: head drawn in initial. | |
initials planned | sometimes | 14v-17r, 18v-23r, 24v-26r, 40v-42r, 61v-64r | Notation indented on one stave, at start of voice part, in all voices or in lower voices. | |||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
rarely | 17v-18r | littera notabilior | Small litterae notabiliores, placed before stave. |