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 7

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Ju 7

DIAMM Source Key: 1223

Image repositories: UrMEL

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1515

Between 1508 and 1519, after Maximilian was proclaimed Emperor and before he died.

Provenance

1) The manuscript contains heraldic arms and the motto of Maximilian I (double-headed imperial eagle, arms of Austria and first words of his motto 'Halt mas [in allen dingen]', f. 1r). 2) Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1486-1525), probably at All Saints Church in Wittenberg. 2) When a later Elector, Johann Friedrich I, was deposed in 1547, he retired to Weimar, taking with him the court library. The collection was transferred to Jena in the following year to become the foundation of the library of the Hochschule (later Jena University).

Artists/Scribes

Person: Scribe C, (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Music copied by scribe C (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: artist
Note: Anonymous (f. 1r).

Person: Scribe C3 (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Text partly copied by scribe C3 (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Scribe C4 (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Text partly copied by scribe C4 (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Scribe C5 (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Text partly copied by scribe C5 (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Person: Scribe X, (member of Habsburg-Burgundian 'Alamire' workshop (Mechelen, Belgium))
Person type: scribe
Note: Calligraphic initials by scribe X (<a href="/bibliography/#entry640" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Kiel, Jacobijn and Flynn Warmington, ‘Overview of the Scribes’, in Kellman 1999, 47–52 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Kiel/Warmington 1999</a>, 52).

Bibliography

Roediger 1935, I, 47-8, II, 15-18; Kellman 1976, 190-192, 209, 212; Census-Catalogue I, 291, IV, 413; Kellman 1999, no. 15.

Basis for description: original

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.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

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