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 foliosPreparation
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 |