Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 31, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 221
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 428 x 288
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Modern foliation pencil top right, 1-221 (including flyleaves).
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
in outer margin, bottom line of each stave; occasionally visible at bottom for vertical bounding lines |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text |
| Ruling pattern |
highly regular
3-10 pentagrams, staves ruled on pricked grid, very even. |
| Staves omitted from grid | often |
| Incomplete staves | never |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| hard point | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| black | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single | always | at beginning of every voice (often staves 1 and 6, but with many variations), c. 30-50 mm | |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| 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 | rarely | staves extended into margin to accommodate notation |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | 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 | some individual voices untexted in the latter parts of the codex |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black |
| Colour of notation folios | all |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | large rhomboid shape pointed at top and squat at bottom, straight stems slightly tapered at tip (Heidrich scribe H) |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| sometimes | Some extended final notes, but not obviously functioning as line-fillers; some repeated custodes (e.g. ff. 25v-26r) |
Text
| Types of script | textura |
| Types of script note | with bastarda elements |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red rubrics normally in red; underlaid text black |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | none |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Liminary text | Voice designations B, A, T as initials, not written out; some performance instructions (Canons, Tacet etc.) |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | poor |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration | large cadels, D cadel (top verso) often with additional penwork in red ink entered after staves, but before music and text | |||
| initials planned | rarely | Space left for intials for sections in the middle of staves over ruling, but not exceuted (ff. 22v-23r etc.) | ||||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| occasionally | decorative final long | |||||