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 foliosPreparation
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 |
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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 |