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 36

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 36

DIAMM Source Key: 1236

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 36, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 157

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 458 x 310

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: Modern foliation pencil top right, 1, 6-98, 99-161

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking sometimes,
in outer margin, top line of each stave; none visible for vertical bounding lines
Ruled grid sometimes,
single line to left and right, no horizontal ruling for text
Ruling pattern fairly irregular
quite irregular, basically 10-line grid, but many variations on pages ruled individually for each voice/piece. Staves often not conforming to grid
Staves omitted from grid often
Incomplete staves rarely
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
double sometimes At beginning of pieces/movements, c. 30-50 mm
single sometimes At beginning of subsections, c. 20-35 mm.
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
variable space, not on grid normally
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
Type of notation note void mensural, even or slightly squat rhomboid shape (Heidrich scribe Q)
Monophonic notation absent
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 and cantus firmus texts in red
Multiple texts yes
cantus firmus text in red above ordinary text, rarely
Abbreviations some
Liminary text Rubrics in red, normally. Voice designations fully written out in red, in margin, normally

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a