PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Muzeum Východních Čech, Knihovna, MS Hr-7 (II A 7)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: CZ-HKm II.A.7

DIAMM Source Key: 976

Image repositories: Manuscriptorium

Folio(s): All folios

Date: late 15th - early 16th century

Location of origin: Prague, Czech Republic

Provenance

Purchased for the Muzeum východních Čech in 1896 (Orel 1914) or 1901 (Orel 1922a)

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe

Bibliography

Atlas 1977, Atlas 1981b, Baker 1978, Brewer 1984, Brown 1983a, Černý 1966, Černý 1970, Černý 1971, Černý 1972, Černý 1975a, Černý 1984, Černý 1989, Černý 1990, Černý 1993, Černý/Mikan 1967, Curtis/Wathey 1994, D’Accone 1970, Drake 1972, Fallows 1978, Fiedler 1997, Fischer 1972, Gancarczyk 2001, Gierschik 1965, Gore 1978, Gottwald 1978, Graham 2006a, Graham 2006b, Horyna 2006, Horyna 2007, Hudson 1969–72, Just 1975, Just 1981, Just 1983, Kenney 1960, Kirnbauer 2001, Kozachek 1994, Kvochová 2005, Lerner 1961–70, Mandlík 2008, Mráčková 1998, Mráčková 2002, Mráčková 2004a, Mráčková 2004b, Mráčková 2004c, Mráčková 2006, Mráčková 2009a, Mráčková 2009b, Mráčková 2009c, Noblitt 1987–96, Orel 1914, Orel 1922a, Orel 1922b, Orel 1930, Pátková 2000, Pečman 1972, Petrusová 1994, Petrusová 1996, Pohanka 1958, Roth 1982, Snížková 1958, Snow 1968, Staehelin 1972b, Staehelin 1977, Staehelin 2001, Strohm 1979, Strohm 1993, Trowell 1968, Vanišová 1981, Vanišová 1990, Ward 1977a, Ward 1979, Ward 1981, Zilynskij 1987

Basis for description: original

Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Muzeum Východních Čech, Knihovna, MS Hr-7 (II A 7), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + 305 + i

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 375 x 275

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: index on 303v-304v

Non-musical texts: inscription on front pastedown

Other devices: 1. Original foliation (brown ink, top right: a1–a20 ... n1–n20, o1–o13).
2. Modern pagination (pencil, bottom centre: 1-609)
First and last flyleaves are modern and unfoliated; ff. 1r-305r are paginated 1-609.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking sometimes
Ruled grid often,
Gatherings iii-v, ix, xiii, xv-xvii, xx-xxi, xxiii-xxv
Ruling pattern fairly regular
Staves omitted from grid rarely
Incomplete staves rarely
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
lead point always
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
black always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
single sometimes some pages between ff. 1-20, 57-79 and 104-127 some pages within gatherings I–II, VI–VII, X–XI; usually stave 1 and either stave 5 or stave 6
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
provided, in dedicated space rarely 292-303 gathering XXVI only
not in dedicated space rarely
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
made for complete additional staves rarely some pages between ff. 272 and 291 additional stave added at foot of some pages in gatherings XXIV-XXV
partial additional staves occasionally
staves extended into margin occasionally

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Czech, Latin
Order of Copying music first
normally
Order of Copying unclear
rarely
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
fully texted with one text all voice parts often
provided with single incipit all voice parts rarely
untexted all voice parts rarely
fully texted with two or more texts all voice parts occasionally
provided with multiple incipits all voice parts rarely
fully texted with one text discantus normally
provided with single incipit discantus occasionally
fully texted with one text tenor sometimes
provided with single incipit tenor sometimes
untexted tenor rarely
fully texted with one text contratenor sometimes
fully texted with one text altus sometimes
fully texted with one text bassus sometimes
provided with single incipit contratenor sometimes
provided with single incipit altus sometimes
provided with single incipit bassus sometimes
untexted contratenor rarely
untexted altus rarely
untexted bassus rarely
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation full mensural, void mensural
Monophonic notation present
292r-303v,
collection of hymns in gathering XXVI
Level of calligraphy fair
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
signa congruentiae rarely
signes-de-renvoi occasionally
Text
Types of script cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black red
normally black, occasionally red
Multiple texts yes
Text repetitions few
Abbreviations few
Non underlaid vocal text additional
Liminary text little
Later changes few

Decoration

Level of Decoration poor
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials sometimes calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration
initials planned often indentations left empty, first letter of first text word often missing