Manuscript: Basel, Switzerland, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS F IX 55

Manuscript type: choirbook (single quire(s))

RISM siglum: CH-Bu F.IX.55

DIAMM Source Key: 1548

Image repositories: E-manuscripta

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1507-1510

The first part of the manuscripts is inscribed 'Venerabili magistro Jacobo salandronio | lude magistro scole divi theodori'. Since Jacob Salandronius (or Salzmann) left his post at the Latin School of St. Theodor in Basel in April 1510 and since one of the pieces in this part is Heinrich Isaac's motet 'Sancti spiritus / Imperii proceres' composed for the Imperial Diet in Constance in 1507, the copy must date from between these two dates. See Kmetz 1988, 177.

Location of origin: Basel, Switzerland

Provenance

The first part of the manuscript was copied by Jacob Salandronius (Salzmann), teacher at the Latin School of St. Theodor in Basel, between 1507 and 1510. It was folded and posted to 'Matis brotbeck in der cleinen stat' (Mathis brotbeck [baker] in Kleinbasel), together with the second part which must thus date from the same time as the first or earlier. A later ownership remark (probably by Brotbeck states 'Filius suus dono mihi misit ex Tegbuiler Urbe Helvetia', indicating that it was Salandronius' son who had sent the volume to him, possibly from Tägerwilen near Constance. The manuscript was possibly later in the possession of the Remigius Faesch Museum whose holdings were taken over by Basel University Library in 1823.

Basel, Switzerland, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS F IX 55, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: ii + 12 + i

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 310 x 220

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: Various ownership and provenance entries on f. 1r:
upright in left margin: 'Venerabili magistro Jacobo salandronio | lude magistro scole divi theodori'
middle of page: 'Matis brot|beck in | der cleinen | stat'
below that: 'Filius suus dono mihi misit ex Tegbuiler Urbe Helvetia'

Other devices: modern pencil foliation, 1-12

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

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Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	never
Ruled grid	always, Double lines left and right: outer margin 35–39 mm, inner margin 20–26 Sometimes additionally frame line below ruled staved in lower margin, 50–62 mm from bottom
Ruling pattern	fairly regular
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown ink	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
freehand	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
no separate text	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
made for complete additional staves	occasionally	1v, 4r, 7r
partial additional staves	rarely	4r
notation and staves extended into margin	occasionally
notation extended into margin	sometimes

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios
untexted	tenor	rarely	2r
provided with one or two incipits	all except discantus	sometimes
provided with one or two incipits	all voice parts	sometimes
fully texted with one text	discantus	sometimes
partially texted with one text	all voice parts	sometimes	5v-7r
fully texted with one text	tenor	occasionally	7v-8r
provided with single incipit	all except tenor	occasionally	7v-8r

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	chant (square), void mensural
Type of notation note	teardrop-shape notation
Monophonic notation	present 2r, 3r, 3v, Chant-based cantus firmus voices
Level of calligraphy	poor

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
none
Line fillers	Folios	Note
none

Text

Types of script	cursive (German)
Level of calligraphy	poor
Colour(s) of text	black
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	none
Abbreviations	many
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	Composer ascriptions (consistently) Voice designations (occasionally) Canonic instruction 'Bassus cim supremo in decimis baritonizat (3v) 'Resoluciones super missam rosina' (4r) , 3v, 4r

Decoration

Level of Decoration	very poor

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