PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 34

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 34

DIAMM Source Key: 1234

Image repositories: UrMEL

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1515

Location of origin: Wittenberg, Germany

Provenance

For the chapter of All Saints, Wittenberg

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe

Basis for description: original

Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 34, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 273

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 484 x 324

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Remainders of earlier custodes and foliation; see [[Heidrich 1993]], p. 327f.
2. Modern foliation pencil top right, 1-273

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

10v-16r, 25v-31r, 37v-38r, 47v-48r, 57v-60r, 67v-71r, 82v-86r, 92v-93r, 99v-101r, 125v-129r, 136v-139r, 146v-153r, 162v-167r, 174v-175r, 181v-185r, 198v-201r, 207v-208r, 214v-217r, 227v-261r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking always,
in outer margin, top line of each stave; none visible for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
staves ruled on pricked grid, very even.
Staves omitted from grid never
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
none never Music and text sometimes very slightly indented over ruled staves to accommodate voice designations
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves 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

Copying of text and music

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 always
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural, German hufnagel
Type of notation note void mensural, even or slightly squat rhomboid shape (Heidrich scribe Q); Tenor in German hufnagel notation
Monophonic notation present
T: monophonic notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Level of calligraphy note medium
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black red
Rubrics in red
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions fairly few
Abbreviations few
Non underlaid vocal text additional
112v-118r: text only, notation not executed
Liminary text Rubrics in red, normally. Voice designations fully written out in red, in margin

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a
1v-10r, 16v-25r, 31v-37r, 38v-47r, 48v-57r, 62v-67r, 76v-82r, 86v-92r, 93v-99r, 101v-125r, 129v-135r, 139v-146r, 153v-162r, 167v-174r, 175v-181r, 185v-198r, 201v-207r, 208v-214r, 217v-223r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking always,
in outer margin, top line of each stave; none visible for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all,
10 pentagrams, staves ruled on pricked grid, very even.
Staves omitted from grid never
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
none always Music and text sometimes very slightly indented over ruled staves to accommodate voice designations
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves 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

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Higlighting none
Order of Copying text 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 German hufnagel
Monophonic notation present
monophonic notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black red
Rubrics in red
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions none
Abbreviations few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text Rubrics in red, normally Voice designations fully written out in red, in margin

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a
263v-272r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking always,
in outer margin, top line of each stave; none visible for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all,
9 pentagrams, staves ruled on pricked grid, very even.
Staves omitted from grid never
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
none always Music and text sometimes very slightly indented over ruled staves to accommodate voice designations
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves 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

Copying of text and music

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 always
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural, German hufnagel
Type of notation note void mensural, even or slightly squat rhomboid shape (Heidrich scribe Q); Tenor German hufnagel notation
Monophonic notation present
T: monophonic notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Level of calligraphy note medium
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black red
Rubrics in red
Multiple texts no
Abbreviations few
Liminary text Rubrics in red, normally. Voice designations fully written out in red, in margin

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a
72v-75r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking always,
in outer margin, bottom line of each stave; none visible for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all,
9 pentagrams, staves ruled on pricked grid, very even.
Staves omitted from grid never
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
none always Music and text sometimes very slightly indented over ruled staves to accommodate voice designations
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves 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

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 always
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural, German hufnagel
Type of notation note void mensural, even or slightly squat rhomboid shape (Heidrich scribe Q); Tenor German hufnagel notation
Monophonic notation present
T: monophonic notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black red
Rubrics in red
Multiple texts no
Abbreviations few
Liminary text Rubrics in red, normally. Voice designations fully written out in red, in margin

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a