London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal Appendix 58, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: vi + 58 + v
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 150 x 210
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Fragment of original title page ('tenor') pasted to f. 1r, other fragment from title page pasted to f. 2r.
Other devices: 1. Modern ink foliation, 1-58, crossed out and replaced by more recent pencil foliation, 1-60, which begins with fifth flyleaf. The latter (1-60) is used here.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
normally,
ff. 3r-25v: faint lead justification lines and text lines, occasionally brown ink used for one justification line. ff. 26r-50r: brown ink justification lines, upper stave line of first stave extends into margin ff. 50v-60v: no grid visible |
Ruling pattern | highly irregular |
Staves omitted from grid | occasionally |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | often | 26r-50r | brown ink justification lines, with upper stave line extending into margin |
lead point and brown ink | sometimes | 3r-25v | faint lead point justification lines and text lines, occasionally brown ink is used for one of the justification lines |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
straightedge | normally | 3r-60v | |
freehand | rarely | 60v | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | rarely | 3v-4r. 6r-v, 7v, 17v, 23r | notation indented on staves |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
staves not ruled on grid | sometimes | 3r-14v | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | occasionally | 3r-14v | staves omitted from grid ff. 3-14; thereafter no separate text. |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
partial additional staves | rarely | 29v, 34v | |
notation extended into margin | occasionally | ||
notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | ||
staveline added | rarely |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | English, Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
text first
normally |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | ||
partially texted with one text | all voice parts | rarely | 8r | |
untexted | all voice parts | occasionally | ||
provided with single incipit | all voice parts | rarely | 30r-32r, 39v, 59v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | blue dark brown |
Colour of notation note | <p>blue: f. 11v</p> |
Type(s) of notation | chant (square), full mensural, void mensural |
Monophonic notation |
present
27r, 27v, 32v, 39v, 58v-59v |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
end symbol | variable: sometimes no line, sometimes single, sometimes double occasionally the final note divides into a third and comes back to the unison | |
signes-de-renvoi | 29r, 34v | used in conjunction with partial additional staves, drawn to insert notes which had initially been omitted |
signa congruentiae | some | |
Later changes | Folios | |
various different hands contributed to this partbook, some of which may be later additions | ||
original music crossed out, first two staves rewritten into blank staves | 8v | |
faded staveline redrawn | 15v |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Types of script size position | underlaid and liminary text |
Types of script note | various hands with various degrees of cursivity |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | red dark brown red composer attribution in upper margin of f. 59v, maybe later addition |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly many |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
3r-14v, staves not ruled as part of grid; later in book where no space is left, no non underlaid vocal text is copied |
Liminary text | 'ut supra', 'finis', some titles, some composer attributions, some voice names |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
initials planned | rarely | 3v-4r, 6r-v, 7v | first stave only: notation indented on stave | notation indented on stave, cue letter visible | ||
penned initials | rarely | 3r, 17v, 23r | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads | 3r: before stave 17v: notation indented 23r: stave indented | dark brown calligraphic initials, touched with red ink man's head present inside initial on f. 17v | |
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
occasionally | end-symbol | end symbol sometimes decorative - either expanded final note and/or some decoration added to final barline |