Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.M.1.13 (Lat 456; olim V.H.10), All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 224 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 560 x 395
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: Tabula', original, with numbers and some composers, f. 1
Other devices: 1. Original quire signatures, brown ink recto bottom right (only traces remain).
2. Original piece numbering, black ink recto top right, partly trimmed off, corresponding to table of contents.
3. Modern foliation pencil recto top right, 1-224.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
prick for each ruled stave in outer margins; not aligned with bottom staveline, but consistently below it. Vertical bounding lines pricked at top and bottom, bottom pricks often trimmed off |
Ruled grid |
always,
single vertical bounding lines; text on single line, added only where text present |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
9 pentagrams, very parallel and even |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point or 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 |
none | always | no indented staves, music either indented over 1 stave to accommodate initials or initials in left margin | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | ||
notation extended into margin | occasionally |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French, Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | discantus | always | ||
provided with one or two incipits | all except discantus | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shape, quite slender |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | occasionally | |
repeat signs | occasionally |
Text
Types of script | textura |
Types of script note | with cursive elements |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts |
yes
rarely. Agnus I und III together, ff. 67v-68r |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Mass titles and (where appropriate) composer name above new piece, normally. Voice designations for T, Ct and B, with initial in left margin and then under the music, normally. Cross-references, occasionally. Performance instructions (Duo, Tacet, Verte), sometimes All except voice-designation initials in black ink in the same size and style as underlaid text. |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 1v | bottom | excised | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | 1v, 2v, 28v | partial borders: two-sided | lower margin, outer margin | excised | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | normally | decorated, flourished | beginning of every new piece or movement, discantus only. | Purple, red, blue, and green on gold, with filigree work and foliage designs | ||
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , flourished | Initials of voices other than discantus or subsections of discantus, in margin or more rarely in indentation | large capitals alternating red and blue with penwork in opposite colour |