Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 2, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 108 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 600 x 415
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Modern paper flyleaves Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-108.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
in outer margin, bottom line of each stave (in standard 10-stave ruling); top and bottom for vertical bounding lines |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, double line for text (5 mm apart) |
| Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
basically 10-line grid, but many variations on pages ruled individually for each voice/piece (especially decorated openings). Staves then not conforming to grid |
| Staves omitted from grid | sometimes |
| Incomplete staves |
rarely,
19v, 86v |
| 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 |
| triple | occasionally | ||
| double | often | ||
| single | often | ||
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
| staves not ruled on grid | often | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | never | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | e.g. 30r, 39r, 58r, 70r, 87r, 107r | |
| partial additional staves | rarely | 86v |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | Flemish, French, Latin |
|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| fully texted with two or more texts | bassus | rarely | 2v, 3v, 4v, 7r | |
| fully texted with two or more texts | discantus | rarely | 8r, 30v, 31v | |
| fully texted with two or more texts | tenor secundus | rarely | 14r, 15r, 16r, 88v, 89v | |
| fully texted with two or more texts | tenor primus | occasionally | 16v, 17v, 18v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v, 24v, 25v, 27v, 29v, 30v, 31v, 49v, 50v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54v, 55v, 56v, 57v, 58v, 59v, 61v, 63v, 64v |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black red |
| Colour of notation note | <p>Musical notation in red on ff. 8r, 75v.</p> |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | void mensural, all, slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signes-de-renvoi | Cross with four dots (ff. 1v-2r, 2v-3r, 3v-4r, 4v-5r, 14v-15r, 16v-17r, 18v-19r, 20v, 22v-23r, 23v-24r, 25v-26r, 27v-28r, 29v-30r, 46r, 50r, 51v-52r, 54v-55r, 57v-58r, 58v-59r, 59v-60r, 67v-68r, 72v-73r, 75v-76r, 78v-79r, 87v-88r, 89v-90r, 90v-91r, 95v-96r, 99v-100r, 103v-104r, 106v-107r, 107v), trefoil-shaped (f. 21r, 49v-50r, 51v-52r, 57v, 61v-62r, 62v-63r, 63v-64r, 64v-65r, 70v-71r, 71v-72r, 74v-75r), diamond-shaped (ff. 21v-22r, 52v-53r, 56v-57r, 69v-70r), trio of balls (f. 105r). | |
| signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| occasionally | 6v, 7r, 16v, 17r, 19r, 21r, 23r, 23v, 24r, 30v, 31r, 38v, 39r, 41v, 42r, 51v, 52r, 54v, 55r, 71v, 72r, 72v, 73r, 83v, 84r, 84v, 85r, 86v, 87r, 88v, 89r, 101v, 102r | Custodes doubled or tripled |
Text 1
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red Red used for double-texting, instructions, important words such as 'Domine Deus', 'Jhesu Criste', 'Maria Virgine', etc. and partly for voice-names. |
| Multiple texts | yes |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Text 2
| Types of script | display script |
| Types of script size position | Rubrics introduced by large initials for voice-names after the discantus, 'residuum' rubrics and partly instructions at the end of voice designations on empty stave or in empty space. |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red |
| Liminary text |
Titles and composer designations at beginning of Masses.
Verte instructions and tacet instruction, often very imaginative.
Voice designations,
13v, 33v, 49v, 66v, 80v, 97v and elsewhere |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very high |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 2r | 1 miniature on opening page, 3 staves high (first stave omitted), introducing the contratenor of a five voice-part (f. 2r). | Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise, accompanied by a scroll which bears his motto 'Tant que je puis'. | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| rarely | None | 1v, 2r | partial borders: one-sided | upper margin | Partial border in upper margin on f. 1v extends from painted initial. Partial border in upper margin on f. 2r consists of a painted scroll including the motto of Frederick the Wise 'Tant que je puis'. | |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | rarely | 1v, 13v, 33v, 49v, 66v, 80v, 97v | Decorated initials with grotesque heads at the beginning of Masses for the discantus; once (f. 66v) also for the tenor. Painted calligraphic initials for the Kyrie and the Sanctus (ff. 35v, 43v) in Févin's Missa de Feria (ff. 33v-48r). | |||
| penned initials | normally | At the beginning of each voice-part. | Elaborate calligraphic initials developing grotesque heads, highlighted with coloured washes, at the beginning of the Masses after the discantus. Large calligraphic initials with white borders, at the beginning of major divisions. Some initials decorated with grotesque heads in brown ink. | |||
| initials planned | never | |||||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| never | ||||||