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 35

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 35

DIAMM Source Key: 1235

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 35, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 236

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 488 x 324

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Remainders of earlier custodes and foliation; see [[Heidrich 1993]], p. 350f.
2. Modern foliation pencil top right, 1-236

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

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,
Staves ruled on pricked grid, very even.
Staves omitted from grid rarely
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 normally 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

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 (ff. 193r-213r black mensural notation mixed with hufnagel notation for Credos)
Monophonic notation present
T: monophonic notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Text
Types of script textura
Types of script note with bastarda elements
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