Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 8, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: 130
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 485 x 345
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Tabs pasted onto outer margin at beginning of each mass.
2. Modern Arabic foliation in ink in upper right corner: 1-130.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
in outer margin, corresponding to standard 10-stave ruling, but imperfectly aligned with actual ruled staves; top and bottom for vertical bounding lines |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, sometimes single line added for text |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
staves ruled roughly on pricked grid, sometimes slightly varying in distance. Non-standard openings (especially display openings) occasionally not conforming to grid. |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
occasionally,
3r, 3v, 16v, 19v, 38v, 63v, 74v, 77r, 79r, 85v, 91r, 112r |
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 | 6v, 26v, 45v, 66v, 85v, 105v | at the beginning of Masses (first stave not ruled) |
triple | rarely | 28v, 87v | at the beginning of the Kyrie of the first and fifth Mass (ff. 28v, 87v) |
double | often | ||
single | often | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staves not ruled on grid | often | ||
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | often |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Flemish, French, Latin |
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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 | occasionally | 45v-58v, 60v, 62v, 63v, 66v-77v, 80v, 82v, 83v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid-shaped notation |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | Trefoil-shaped (ff. 50v-51r, 54v-55r, 57v-58r), cross with four red dots around its centre (ff. 53v-54r, 60v-61r, 61v-62r, 62v-63r, 68v-69r, 73v-74r, 76v-77r, 78v-79r, 81v-82r, 83v-84r), diamond-shaped (ff. 58v, 63v), a trio of red balls with a descending stroke (ff. 103v-104r), in red ink. | |
signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a stroke | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
few | 31r, 100v | series of tapering lines, extending the double-bar at the end of music |
Text 1
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | for voice-names introduced by large initials after the discantus at the beginning of each voice-part, 'residuum' rubrics and instructions |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Text 2
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Types of script size position | The script changes between a large and a small bastarda. Large bastarda used for incipits on first page (discantus and tenor) of first Credo (ff. 1v-4r) and first page (discantus) of the second Credo (ff. 125v-130r). Large bastarda used for first portion (ff. 5v-14r) of first Mass (ff. 5v-25r) and for the first opening of the second (ff. 26v-44r), third (ff. 45v-65r), fourth (ff. 66v-84r), fifth (ff. 85v-104r) and sixth Mass (ff. 105v-124r). |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red red for headers, double-texting, partly for initials, voice-names, 'residuum' rubrics, instructions, important words such as 'ihesu criste', etc and tacet inscriptions |
Multiple texts | yes |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Headers with titles and composers' names at beginning of works (ff. 1v, 6v, 27r, 45v, 66v, 67r, 105v. Tacet inscriptions (ff. 20v, 21r, 39v, 59v, 79v, 81v, 95v, 99v, 110v, 115v, 120v, 122v) |
Later changes | Partly over erasures on the first page of the first Credo (f. 1v) by a later hand |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 7r | One miniature, three staves hight, at the beginning of the contratenor of the first Mass. | Heraldic arms of Frederick the Wise, accompanied by a scroll which bears his motto 'Tant que je puis'. | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | 6v | partial borders: one-sided | upper margin | Partial border in upper margin consists of a painted scroll including the motto of Frederick the Wise 'Tant que je puis'. | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | rarely | 6v | Decorated initial with grotesque heads, four staves high, at the beginning of the discantus for the first Mass. | |||
initials planned | never | |||||
penned initials | occasionally | At the beginning of each voice-part. | Large calligraphic initials with white borders, at the beginning of major divisions. Some initials decorated with grotesque heads in brown ink. | |||
penned initials | occasionally | 6v-7r, 26v-27r, 45v-46r, 66v-67r | At the beginning of each voice-part. | Elaborate calligraphic initials developing grotesque heads, highlighted with coloured washes, for the first opening of the first four Masses (ff. 6v-7r, 26v-27r, 45v-46r, 66v-67r). | ||
penned initials | rarely | 85v-86r, 105v | At the beginning of each voice-part. | Large calligraphic initials in red ink with white borders, at the beginning of the last two Masses (ff. 85v-86r, 105v). | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
never |