London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal 8 G. vii, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: ii + 64 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 370 x 258
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Modern Arabic pencil foliation, recto top right, 1-63
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
Prickings in corners at bottom and top throughout. Prickings in outer margins often visible as guides for maximum ten staves. |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, occasional text lines |
Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
rarely,
4v, 12r, 52v, 53r |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
light brown ink | occasionally | horizontal lines as guides for text | |
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 | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | ||
staves not ruled on grid | often | Between and below voice parts | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | never | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
made for complete additional staves | rarely | 53v, 58v | tenth stave added to lower margin |
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 | normally |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shaped noteheads |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | Clover shaped (ff. 21v, 22r, 33v, 34r), in red ink. |
Text 1
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | for voice-names and 'residuum' rubrics |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | red |
Text 2
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 2v, 3r | first opening of the manuscript | 2v: heraldic arms of England supported by a red dragon and a white greyhound, surrounded by the Garter, with Catherine's badge of a pomegranate and the Tudor rose 3r: badge of a portcullis 3r: Tudor rose and Catherine's badge of a pomegranate | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | 2v, 3r | partial borders: two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | flowers, strawberries, red currant, pomegranate, birds, butterflies, snales and a caterpillar on ocher grounds or set against parchment | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | rarely | 2v | decorated | first opening of the manuscript | acanthus initial on ochre ground | |
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , decorated, flourished | blue, red or green, partly decorated with heads or foliate decoration, partly flourished with the same or other ink(s); e.g. blue with pink flourishing (f. 6v), blue with pink and purple flourishing (ff. 12v, 18v, 23v), red with red and pink flourishing (f. 15v), green with pink flourishing (ff. 34v, 38v, 40v, 44v), blue with red flourishing (f. 42v). Last three works with calligraphic initials in brown ink (ff. 58v-63r). |