London, Great Britain, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment (with paper)
Number of leaves: ii + 95 + ii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 668 x 470
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Modern ink foliation, 2-93 (omits first original folio; numbers on f. 1 and f. 94 no longer visible). Pagination begins on verso of first original folio, but stops with "6."
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | never |
| Ruled grid | never |
| Ruling pattern |
fairly irregular
up to 15 staves, but at varying distances and often ruled in a quite uneven fashion; little attempt to match staves on front and back or across openings |
| Staves omitted from grid | n/a |
| Incomplete staves | rarely |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| black | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| straightedge | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| double | normally | For every voice part at the beginning of works / major sections | |
| single | normally | For every voice part at the beginning of subsections / residua | |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| variable space, not on grid | normally | ||
| empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | always | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| partial additional staves | rarely |
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 red |
| Type(s) of notation | full mensural, void mensural |
| Type of notation note | teardrop shaped 'English' notation. Ff. 50v-53r void mensural notation |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signa congruentiae | occasionally |
Text
| Types of script | cursive (Anglicana) |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | many |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text | Composition titles, occasionally Voice designations, occasionally |
| Later changes | Text on f. 32v blacked out |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | high |
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| occasionally | scatter | partial borders: one- and two-sided | outer margin | gold leaves, stars and floral ornaments around major initial in top verso corner | ||
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | always | decorated | various types of two-line (at the beginning of compositions and movements) and one-line (at the beginning of subsections) initials, mostly in gold, on a wide variety of monchrome or polychrome square backgrounds incorporating flowers, birds, and geometrical shapes. | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| sometimes | decorative final long | |||||