Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 32, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper (with parchment)

Number of leaves: 282

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 436 x 288

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Original quire signatures, a-z, A-E, brown ink bottom right, partly cut off
2. Modern foliation pencil top right, 1-282

Page details (zoom):

All folios

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, sometimes single line added for text
Ruling pattern	highly regular 1-11 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 and lead point	always		text lines in lead point
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 or 7, 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	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
notation and staves extended into margin	rarely

Language(s)	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		some sections in the lower voices texted only partially or not at all

Colour(s) of notation	black
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

Types of script	textura
Types of script note	with bastarda elements
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	black red cantus firmus texts in red, 134v-138r
Multiple texts	yes 134v-138r, cantus firmus text above ordinary text
Text repetitions	none
Abbreviations	few
Liminary text	Voice designations B, A, T as initials, not written out; Performance instructions (Canons, Tacet etc.), occasionally, in black

Level of Decoration	poor

Decoration border frequency	Border type	Folios	Size	Position	Description	Discrepancies
rarely	decorated	1v	partial borders: one-sided	lower margin
Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
initials planned	occasionally
painted initials	rarely	1v	decorated		'K' gold on blue ground in red frame, 2 lines
penned initials	normally		calligraphic		large cadels entered after staves, but before music and text