PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 12

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 12

DIAMM Source Key: 1226

Image repositories: UrMEL

Folio(s): All folios

Date: 1515-20

Before the death of Frederick the Wise in 1525. Kellman suggested a close link with Jena MS 3 which can be dated between 1518 and 1520 (Kellman 1999, no. 18).

Provenance

1) Prepared for Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1486-1525), probably at All Saints Church in Wittenberg (heraldic arms, ff. 2r, 67r and his motto 'Tant que je puis', f. 67r). 2) When a later Elector, Johann Friedrich I, was deposed in 1547, he retired to Weimar, taking with him the court library. The collection was transferred to Jena in the following year to become the foundation of the library of the Hochschule (later Jena University).

Artists/Scribes

Person: Scribe C, (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Scribe C copied the music and part of the text (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Master of Charles V
Person type: artist
Note: Master of Charles V (f. 50v) (<a href="/bibliography/#entry889" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Thoss, Dagmar, &lsquo;Flemish Miniature Painting in the Alamire Manuscripts&rsquo;, in Kellman 1999, 53&ndash;62"><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Thoss 1999</a>, 54).

Person: Scribe C5 (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Scribe C5 copied part of the text (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: artist
Note: Anonymous, painted in different styles (ff. 2r, 33v, 111v).

Bibliography

Roediger 1935, I, 49-50, II, 24-28; Kellman 1976, 198-200, 209; Kellman 1999, no. 18.

Basis for description: original

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 folios

Preparation

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