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 21

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 21

DIAMM Source Key: 1228

Image repositories: UrMEL

Folio(s): All folios

Date: 1521-25

Between 27 August 1521 and 5 May 1525, the death of Josquin des Prez (marked as deceased on f. 71v) and the death of Frederick the Wise (provenance).

Location of origin: Brussels, Belgium ; Mechelen, Belgium

Provenance

1) Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1486-1525), probably at All Saints Church in Wittenberg (heraldic arms with motto 'Tant que je puis', f. 2r). 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: Alamire, Petrus (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Petrus Alamire? wrote part of the music (<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: Scribe D, (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: A scribe of the D family wrote part of the music and 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).

Bibliography

Roediger 1935, I, 52, II, 44-7; Kellman 1976, 213; Census-Catalogue I, 294; Kellman 1999, no. 20.

Basis for description: original

Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 21, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + 114 + i

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 402 x 280

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: Original paper flyleaves. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-114. Tabs pasted onto outer margin at beginning of each mass

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, no horizontal ruling for text (ff. 43-58: sometimes single line added for text)
Ruling pattern fairly regular
staves rules freehand, sometimes varying in distance
Staves omitted from grid often
Incomplete staves rarely,
6v, 9v, 10v, 82v, 103v
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
hard point and 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 rarely at the beginning of the first opening of the first, fifth and eighth Mass (ff. 1v, 59v, 101v) at the beginning of the Kyrie of the fourth, sixth and seventh Mass (ff. 44v, 72v, 88v) at the beginning of the Sanctus of the fifth Mass (f. 67v)
double often
single often
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
staves not ruled on grid often
empty ruled staves on grid sometimes
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text never
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation and staves extended into margin rarely 3v, 9v, 17r, 46r, 50v, 51r, 81v
notation extended into margin rarely 16r, 44r, 45v
made for complete additional staves rarely 50v-51r

Copying of text and music

Language(s) French, Latin
Higlighting calligraphic initials highlighted mainly in yellow or red at the beginning of the fourth and the seventh Mass (ff. 43v, 44r, 44v, 87v, 94v)
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 28v, 29r
provided with single incipit tenor rarely 32v, 33v, 38v 38v: no music
untexted tenor rarely 34v
fully texted with two or more texts all voice parts rarely 43v, 44r
provided with single incipit contratenor rarely 81r, 83r no music
provided with single incipit bassus rarely 81r no music
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape; fol. 43-56:squatter shape
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy high
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
signa congruentiae in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop
signes-de-renvoi Small trio of balls with descending loop in black ink (f. 26v), four or five dots arranged in diamond shape in black ink (ff. 39v-40r, 75r, 112v), cross with four dots around its centre in black or red ink (ff. 44r, 50v-51r, 54r), trio of balls with descending loop in red ink (ff. 45v-46r, 53v), diamond-shaped in red ink (f. 91r).
Line fillers Folios Note
occasionally 19v, 20v, 22r, 25r, 29v, 30r, 35r, 59v, 60r, 62r, 63v, 72v, 73r, 97r series of tapering lines after the double-bar which ends voice-parts
Text 1
Types of script display script
Types of script size position for voice-names and 'residuum' rubrics at beginning of voice parts, headers and instructions
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black red
Liminary text Titles and/or composers' names at beginning of works (ff. 1v-2r, 19v, 31v, 43v, 59v-60r, 71v, 87v); Verte and tacet instructions (often elaborate) Voice designations, Residuum indications
Text 2
Types of script cursive (bastarda)
Types of script size position larger script for openings at beginning of works
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts yes
Text repetitions few
Abbreviations few
Non underlaid vocal text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration high
Decoration miniature frequency Folios Size position Description Discrepancies
never
Decoration border frequency Border type Folios Size Position Description Discrepancies
never None None
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials often at the beginning of voice-parts initials partly decorated with grotesque heads in brown ink
painted initials never
initials planned rarely 13r, 13v, 15r-16r, 28v, 29v, 85r
penned initials rarely 1v-2r at the beginning of voice-parts decorated initials developing grotesque heads, one including an angel holding a monstrance, highlighted with coloured washes, at the beginning of the first opening (ff. 1v-2r)
Other decoration frequency Folios Other decoration type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
never