Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 12, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 122 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 555 x 380
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Original tabs on outer margin at beginning of each mass, only stubs left.
2. Modern Arabic foliation in pencil in upper right corner: 1-122.
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, often double line for text (5 mm apart) |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
staves ruled freehand, sometimes slightly uneven |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
rarely,
45v |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point or 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 |
quadruple | rarely | 1v, 84v, 98v | at the beginning of the first, sixth and seventh Mass |
triple | rarely | 3v, 68v, 86v | at beginning of the Kyrie of the first, fifth and sixth Mass |
double | normally | ||
single | sometimes | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staves not ruled on grid | sometimes | ||
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) | |
---|---|
Higlighting | none |
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 | ||
untexted | tenor primus | rarely | 7v, 77v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape |
Monophonic notation |
present
Intonations in Requiem (ff. 111v-122r) |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
few | 3v, 5v, 33v, 39r, 41r, 67r, 68v, 77v | series of tapering lines, extending the double bar at the end of voice-parts; occasionally repeated custodes |
Later changes | Folios | |
piece of paper with correction pasted on page | 74r |
Text 1
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | rubrics introduced by large initials for voice-names after the discantus and 'residuum' rubrics |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Text 2
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red red used for headers and partly for important words, phrases and instructions |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | titles with composers' names, once with title, at beginning of Masses (ff. 1v, 33v, 84v, 98v, 111v); verte instructions; tacet instructions; voice designations |
Later changes |
paper with correction pasted on page,
74r |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 2r | three miniatures, four staves high, at the beginning of Masses (ff. 2r, 33v, 50v) | 2r: Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise (full arms with emblems of his title) | |||
rarely | 33v | three miniatures, four staves high, at the beginning of Masses (ff. 2r, 33v, 50v) | 33v: Mantle Madonna | |||
rarely | 50v | three miniatures, four staves high, at the beginning of Masses (ff. 2r, 33v, 50v) | 50v: Madonna enthroned, suckling the Christ Child | |||
rarely | pages with miniatures at the beginning of Masses torn out (folio preceding f. 18r, folio preceding f. 67r) | |||||
rarely | 67r | one miniature, three staves high, at the beginning of the contratenor of the fifth Mass (f. 67r) | 67r: Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise (simple arms of Saxony) | |||
rarely | 111v | one miniature, two staves high, at the beginning of the Requiem Mass (f. 111v) | 111v: Office of the Dead | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | 18r, 33v | full borders | inner margin, lower margin, outer margin, upper margin | acanthus, birds and butterflies on a multi-coloured ground acanthus, flowers and strawberries on a green ground | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | rarely | 1v | acanthus initial with grotesque heads, four staves high, for the discantus at the beginning of the first Mass (f. 1v) | acanthus initial with grotesque heads, with flowers and a snale, on an ochre ground (f. 1v) | ||
initials planned | rarely | 81v-83r, 89v, 110r, 117r | ||||
penned initials | normally | at the beginning of each voice-part | calligraphic initials | |||
penned initials | occasionally | 1v-2r, 50v-51r, 67r, 84v-85r, 98v-99r | at the beginning of each voice-part | calligraphic initials with grotesque heads, highlighted with coloured washes, for voices after the discantus, at the beginning of the first, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Mass (ff. 1v-2r, 50v-51r, 67r, 84v-85r, 98v-99r) | ||
painted initials | rarely | 84v, 98v | acanthus initials, three staves high, for the discantus at the beginning of the sixth and seventh Mass (ff. 84v, 98v) | acanthus initials on single coloured or bi-parted grounds, partly with flowers and birds (18r, 33v-34r, 84v, 98v, 111v-112r) | ||
painted initials | rarely | 18r, 33v, 34r, 111v-112r | acanthus initials, two staves high, for voices after the discantus, at the beginning of the second and third and the Requiem Mass (ff. 18r, 33v-34r, 111v-112r) | acanthus initials on single coloured or bi-parted grounds, partly with flowers and birds (18r, 33v-34r, 84v, 98v, 111v-112r) | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
never |