Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 3, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i +116 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 557 x 380
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Modern paper flyleaves. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-115.
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
Prickings in upper and lower margins for vertical bounding lines. Prickings in the outer margin for the maximum of ten staves. |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text |
| Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
| Staves omitted from grid | often |
| Incomplete staves |
rarely,
71v, 80v |
| 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 |
| double | normally | ||
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| staves not ruled | sometimes | ||
| empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | never | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| partial additional staves | rarely | 78r | |
| notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 8r, 19v, 62v |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | French, Latin |
|---|---|
| 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 | tenor | rarely | 62v, 63v, 97v, 98v | |
| fully texted with two or more texts | discantus | rarely | 64v, 65v |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| end symbol | 28r, 115r | Three pyramidically arranged dots (ff. 28r, 115r). |
| signes-de-renvoi | A triangle of rhombus-shaped note heads (ff. 3v-4r, 4v-5r, 74v-75r, 75v-76r, 76v, 78r, 78v-79r, 79v-80r, 84r, 93v-94r, 94v-95r, 95v-96r), rhombus made of four small rhombuses (ff. 11v-12r, 17v-18r, 18v-19r, 19v-20r, 54v-55r), three pyramidically arranged dots with a descending loop (ff. 51r, 64v-65r, 106v-107r, 107v-108r, 108v-109r, 109v-110r, 110v-111r, 112v-113r, 114v-115r), three pyramidically arranged rhombuses (ff. 39r, 85v-86r), in black ink. A simple cross (ff. 73v-74r) in red ink. | |
| signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| sometimes | repeated custodes | |
| Later changes | Folios | |
| f. 94a added paper leaf with 5 rastrum-ruled staves on the recto, containing the resolution of canonic L'homme armé tenor written out and texted by Adam Rener. |
Text 1
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy |
very high,
Colour mainly used for personalisation. Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie is dedicated to 'Fridericus dux saxsonie', highlighted in red ink. Josquin's Missa Faisant regretz is dedicated to Elizabeth, the name of Frederick's mother, highlighted in blue ink. |
| Colour(s) of text | black red blue |
| Multiple texts |
yes
Cantus firmus text and ordinary text sometimes interleaved. |
| 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 and 'residuum' rubrics. |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red |
| Liminary text | Composers' names (ff. 15v, 44r, 59v, 73v-74r, 91v, 106r), Frederick's motto 'Tant que je puis' (f. 2r) in red. Titles in red. Voice designations, Tacet instructions, canonic instructions, Verte instructions, Residuum, other rubrics, all in black. |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very high |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 1v | Miniatures at the beginning of the first four Masses, 3 to 4 staves high, introducing the discantus or the discantus and the contratenor respectively, of four voice-parts. | 1v: Visitation | |||
| rarely | 43v | Miniatures at the beginning of the first four Masses, 3 to 4 staves high, introducing the discantus or the discantus and the contratenor respectively, of four voice-parts. | 43v: Assumption of the Virgin | |||
| rarely | 15v | Miniatures at the beginning of the first four Masses, 3 to 4 staves high, introducing the discantus or the discantus and the contratenor respectively, of four voice-parts. | 15v: Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise, supported by Angels | |||
| rarely | 29v, 30r | Miniatures at the beginning of the first four Masses, 3 to 4 staves high, introducing the discantus or the discantus and the contratenor respectively, of four voice-parts. | 29v: Virgin and Child Enthroned 30r: Frederick the Wise in Prayer, introduced by an Angel | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| rarely | None | 1v, 15v, 29v, 30r, 43v | full borders | inner margin, lower margin, outer margin, upper margin | Acanthus, flowers, strawberries, birds and butterflies on pink grounds; once flowers, strawberries, butterflies, flies and caterpillars on an ochre ground (f. 15v). | |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | rarely | 1v, 2r, 15v, 16r, 29v, 30r, 43v, 44r, 59v, 73v, 91v, 105v | At the beginning of the first four Masses, two staves high, introducing the voice-parts after the discantus or the lower voice-parts respectively, of four voice-parts. At the beginning of the following four Masses, four staves high, introducing the discantus, of four voice-parts. | Initials, two staves high, formed of acanthus, occasionally with strewn flowers, strawberries, butterflies and/or birds on green, purple, red, blue or ochre grounds. Initials, four staves high, formed of acanthus. | ||
| penned initials | normally | At the beginning of voice-parts, in general two staves high. | Calligraphic initials with grotesque heads in coloured washes and blue, partly also red ink, at the beginning of voice-parts after the discantus, for the first opening of the last four Masses. Calligraphic initials in black ink throughout. | |||
| initials planned | never | |||||
| painted initials | rarely | 105v | At the beginning of the first four Masses, two staves high, introducing the voice-parts after the discantus or the lower voice-parts respectively, of four voice-parts. At the beginning of the following four Masses, four staves high, introducing the discantus, of four voice-parts. | Initials, four staves high, formed of acanthus, once also with a grotesque head, a bird's head and a snail (f. 105v), on ochre or red grounds. | ||
| painted initials | rarely | 73v | At the beginning of the first four Masses, two staves high, introducing the voice-parts after the discantus or the lower voice-parts respectively, of four voice-parts. At the beginning of the following four Masses, four staves high, introducing the discantus, of four voice-parts. | Initials, four staves high, formed of acanthus, once on a bi-parted ground in ochre and blue with flowers (f. 73v). | ||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| never | ||||||