Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 5, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 86
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 565 x 395
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Tabs pasted onto outer margin at beginning of each mass, only last two extant.
2. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-86.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
In outer margins, but not clear how relating to actual ruling; top and bottom for vertical bounding lines. |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, double line for text (5 mm apart) |
| Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
staves ruled (on pricked grid?), sometimes varying in distance. |
| Staves omitted from grid | often |
| Incomplete staves |
rarely,
18r |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| lead point | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| black | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| quadruple | rarely | 44v | |
| triple | rarely | 7v, 46v, 54v, 60v, 61v, 73v | |
| double | often | ||
| single | often | ||
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| staves not ruled | occasionally | ||
| empty ruled staves on grid | rarely | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | always | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | e.g. 13r, 13v, 14r, 15v, 19v, 44v, 64r, 70r |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | Latin |
|---|---|
| Higlighting | Letters highlighted with yellow in the fourth and fifth Mass (ff. 44v-72r). |
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | ||
| fully texted with two or more texts | tenor | rarely | 23v, 28v, 29v, 30v, 31v, 32v, 37v, 39v, 41v, 42v | |
| fully texted with two or more texts | discantus | rarely | 24v |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | rhomboid-shaped notation |
| Monophonic notation |
present
Intonations for Requiem mass (ff. 73v-86r) |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signes-de-renvoi | Flower (ff. 1v-2r) painted in red and gold; cross with four rhombus-shaped dots around the centre (ff. 4v-5r, 6v-7r, 12v-13r, 13v-14r, 14v-15r, 16v-17r, 17v-18r, 20v-21r, 24v-25r, 26r, 26v-27r, 28v-29r, 29v-30r, 31v-32r, 32v-33r, 35v-36r, 39v-40r, 42v-43r, 68v-69r, 69v-70r, 77v-78r, 82v-83r, 84v-85r, 85v), rhombus made of four small rhombuses (ff. 18v-19r), trefoil-shaped (ff. 21v-22r, 22v, 27v-28r, 30v-31r, 33v-34r, 34v-35r, 36v-37r, 37v-38r, 41v-42r), in red ink. | |
| signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a loop | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| few | 42v, 43r | double-bar which ends the music extended in a series of tapering lines |
Text 1
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red red used for headers, instructions and double-texting; partly also for important words such as 'ihesu criste' etc. and voice-names. |
| Multiple texts | yes |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text |
titles at beginning of Masses,
1v, 26r, 44v, 45r, 60v, 73v, 74r |
Text 2
| Types of script | display script |
| Types of script size position | Rubrics introduced by large initials for voice-names after the discantus, 'residuum' rubrics and partly instructions at the end of voice-parts on empty stave or in empty space. |
| Level of calligraphy | very high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very high |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 1v, 2r | Three miniatures on first opening, two to three staves high, introducing the discantus, contratenor and bassus of a six voice-part (ff. 1v, 2r). Folios which probably included miniatures missing at the beginning of the following two Masses (two folios preceding f. 11r and one folio preceding f. 26r torn out). | 1) Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon (f. 1v) 2) Frederick the Wise in Prayer, introduced by St Catherine of Alexandria (f. 2r) 3) Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise (f. 2r) | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| rarely | None | partial borders: one- and two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | Flowers, strawberries, butterflies, birds, flies and caterpillars on ochre grounds; scroll with Frederick's motto 'Tant que je puis' on f. 2r. | ||
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| penned initials | normally | At the beginning of each voice-part. | Calligraphic initials with grotesque heads, highlighted with coloured washes, at the beginning of last three Masses for voices after the discantus (ff. 26r, 44v, 45r, 60v, 61r, 73v, 74r). Large calligraphic initials with white borders, at the beginning of major divisions. Calligraphic initials in the fourth and fifth Mass highlighted with yellow (ff. 45v-72r). Many initials decorated with grotesque heads in brown ink. | |||
| initials planned | never | |||||
| painted initials | rarely | 44v | At the beginning of the last three Masses, three to four staves high (first stave omitted), at the beginning of the discantus. | Initial with calligraphic pattern infill (f. 44v) | ||
| painted initials | rarely | 60v | At the beginning of the last three Masses, three to four staves high (first stave omitted), at the beginning of the discantus. | acanthus initial with red ribbon on ochre ground (f. 60v) | ||
| painted initials | rarely | 73v | At the beginning of the last three Masses, three to four staves high (first stave omitted), at the beginning of the discantus. | acanthus initial, including a catafalque standing on green ground, on black ground (f. 73v) | ||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| never | ||||||