Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 7, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 107
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 620 x 415
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1.Tabs pasted onto outer margin at beginning of each mass, three lost (with excised leaves).
2. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-107.
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
in outer margin, bottom line of each stave for the maximum of 10 staves. 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 slightly varying in distance. |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
rarely,
33v, 65r, 68v |
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 |
double | often | ||
single | often | ||
triple | occasionally | 2v, 6v, 10v, 11v, 32v, 36v, 48v, 62v, 67v, 82v, 86v, 94v, 102v | Inconsistently used for important sections of the Mass: At the beginning of the Kyrie, Patrem, Sanctus and Pleni in the first Mass. At the beginning of the Kyrie and the Patrem in the third Mass. At the beginning of the Kyrie in the fourth Mass. At the beginning of the Kyrie and the Patrem in the fifth Mass. At the beginning of the Patrem and the Sanctus in the sixth Mass. At the beginning of the Kyrie and the Pleni in the seventh Mass. |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
staves not ruled 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 | 3v, 21r, 63v, 64r, 71r, 96r, 99r, 100r | |
notation extended into margin | rarely | 19v, 27r, 97v, 98v |
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 | normally | ||
fully texted with two or more texts | discantus | rarely | 59v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | Trio of balls with a descending loop in black ink (ff. 13v-14r, 18v-19r, 26v-27r, 51v, 55v-56r, 70v-71r). | |
signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a stroke | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
few | 1v, 3r, 10v, 13r, 17r, 32v, 33r, 48r, 49r, 82r | in form of a series of tapering vertical lines, extending the normal double vertical which marks the end of a section |
Text 1
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red use of red restricted to first opening of Masses for headers and important words (ff. 30v, 47r, 61v, 78v, 92v) |
Multiple texts | yes |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | header for composers' names and/or titles (ff. 61v, 78v, 92v) tacet inscriptions (ff. 28v, 29r, 41v, 42r, 43v, 57v, 58r, 89v, 96v, 102v, 103r, 104v) |
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 instructions. |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 1r | At the beginning of the first two Masses although one folio preceding f. 1r and one preceding f. 17r were torn out; the folio torn out preceding f. 47r at the beginning of the fourth Mass probably contained a historiated initial rather than a miniature (H forthcoming). | 1r: Heraldic arms of Maximilian I 1r: Heraldic arms of Austria | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | 1r | partial borders: one-sided | upper margin | First words of Maximilian's motto 'Halt mas (in allen dingen)' in gold on a red ground. | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | rarely | 17r, 30v, 61v, 62r, 78v, 92v, 93r | At the beginning of voice-parts after the discantus, two staves high, at the beginning of the second, fifth and seventh Mass. At the beginning of the discantus, three to four staves high, at the beginning of the last five Masses. | Acanthus on blue, red or purple grounds with flowers (ff. 17r, 61v, 62r, 92v, 93r). Acanthus with grotesque heads on single, bi- or multi-coloured grounds (ff. 30v, 61v, 78v, 92v). One folio preceding f. 47r torn out, probably with a historiated initial including a monstrance (H forthcoming). | ||
penned initials | normally | At the beginning of the third, fourth and sixth Mass (ff. 30v, 31r, 47r, 78v, 79r). At the beginning of voice-parts, between one and three staves high. | Calligraphic initials with grotesque heads, highlighted with coloured washes. Calligraphic initials with coloured infill in blue, red and yellow. | |||
initials planned | never | |||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
never |