Lisbon, Portugal, Biblioteca Nacional, Colecção Dr. Ivo Cruz. MS 60, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + 72 + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 96 x 146
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Modern pencil foliation top right, 1-72, excludes flyleaves.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | none visible |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, text on single line |
| Ruling pattern | highly regular |
| Staves omitted from grid | never |
| Incomplete staves | never |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| brown ink and hard point | always | Vertical bounding lines in reddish-brown ink, text lines hard pont (or lead point) | |
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| brown | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single | always | On pre-ruled pages staves 1 and either 3 or 4 indented. | |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| not in dedicated space | always | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| Indentation for initials filled in | sometimes |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | Latin |
|---|---|
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always |
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 | high |
| Later changes | Folios | |
|---|---|---|
| later additions on empty ruled pages by different hand: ff. 52v-55r and 68v-72r mensural notation, mostly polyphonic; on ff. 68v-72r chant. |
Text
| Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Colour(s) of text | black |
| Multiple texts |
yes
multiple strophes below music, occasionally |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
additional strophes, sometimes, below text block or on empty staves |
| Later changes | ff. 55v-61r and 68v-72r added later by different hand on empty ruled pages |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | fair |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads, flourished, plain initials | Calligraphic initials of different types; some plain capitals in black or gold with flourishing of the opposing colour (occasionally spreading into the margins; some calligraphic initials of different kinds in different colours; some with plant motives, a few grotesque heads (e.g. f. 15r). | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| sometimes | decorative final long | |||||