Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 22, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 163 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 397 x 290
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: Original index (f. 1r)
Other devices: Modern paper flyleaves. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-163.
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | none visible |
| Ruled grid |
sometimes,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text (lines sometimes lacking) |
| Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
| Staves omitted from grid | often |
| Incomplete staves |
rarely,
22r, 33r, 80v, 99v, 102v, 120r, 131r, 137v |
| 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 | occasionally | for all or most initials on the first and partly also the second opening of Masses and for the discantus and partly also the tenor on the same page, at the beginning of important sections within the Masses | |
| double | normally | ||
| single | sometimes | ||
| quadruple | rarely | 42v, 43r, 54v | partly for the first opening of Masses |
| 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 | occasionally | ||
| partial additional staves | occasionally | ||
| made for complete additional staves | rarely | 133r |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | French, Latin |
|---|---|
| Higlighting | calligraphic initials highlighted with yellow washes |
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape (typical for 'Scribe B') |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signes-de-renvoi | three rhombuses arranged around a dot with a descending loop (ff. 13r, 14v, 15r, 38v, 40v, 41r, 45v, 46r, 50v, 51r, 58v, 59r, 59v, 60r, 69v, 70r, 78v, 79r, 84v, 85r, 85v, 86r, 87v, 88r, 88v, 89r, 112r, 133v, 134r, 143v, 144r, 151v, 152r), four small or large rhombuses arranged in diamond shape (ff. 26v, 27r, 27v, 28r, 149v, 150r, 150v, 151r), three small dots with a descending loop (ff. 51v, 52r, 57v, 58r, 92v, 93r, 93v, 94r, 96v, 97r, 100v, 101r, 110v, 111r, 138v, 139r, 157v, 158r, 159v, 160r), three dots with a descending loop under an up-side-down 'v' (f. 50r), three small balls arranged around a zigzag line with a descending loop (ff. 126v, 127r), a zigzag line with a descending loop (ff. 139v, 140r), a simple cross (ff. 156v, 157r). | |
| signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| sometimes | double vertical which ends the voice-parts has been extended in form of a series of tapering vertical lines (f. 64v); repeated custodes, sometimes. |
Text 1
| Types of script | display script |
| Types of script size position | for voice-names at the beginning of voice-parts after the discantus, titles, composer names and some other rubrics |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red |
| Liminary text | Titles and/or composers' names (ff. 18v, 30v, 78v, 90v, 113v); canon instructions; tacet instructions; voice names; residuum indications |
Text 2
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red red for cantus firmus texts |
| Multiple texts |
yes
sometimes cantus firmus text and ordinary text interleaved |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very high |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 102v | one miniature, three staves high, at the beginning of Obrecht's Missa Sicut spina rosam | Virgin and Child on Crescent Moon, surrounded by a garland of white and red roses | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| rarely | None | 102v | partial borders: two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | flowers and strawberry on ochre ground | |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | never | |||||
| penned initials | normally | at the beginning of voice-parts | calligraphic initials decorated with acanthus, flowers, faces etc, highlighted with colours, at the beginning of Masses calligraphic initials with yellow washes | |||
| initials planned | rarely | |||||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| never | ||||||