Modena, Italy, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Modena-Nonantola, MS Mus. XI, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: iii + 76 + iii

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 535 x 380

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Original ink pagination, outside top corner 1-54, on ff. 7v-34r; continued with modern pagination, 57-138, on ff. 35v-75r.
2. Modern foliation, pencil top right, 1-76

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Preparation and Copying

7-34

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, Single line to left and right, double lines for text
Ruling pattern	highly regular
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always		Music and text often indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials. Two woodcuts were subsequently pasted over the left edges of the first two staves of fol. 7v and the first three of fol. 18v, thus hiding them from view.
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
made for complete additional staves	rarely	7r	six hand-drawn additional staves on originally blank page to accommodate piece from a later copying stage

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	brown
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rhomboid shaped noteheads
Monophonic notation	present for psalm intonation, normally
Level of calligraphy	high

Text

Types of script	textura
Types of script note	with cursive elements
Level of calligraphy	high
Colour(s) of text	brown
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	none
Abbreviations	few
Non underlaid vocal text	none

Decoration

Level of Decoration	fair

Decoration miniature frequency		Folios		Size position	Description	Discrepancies
rarely		7v, 18v		top verso, 2 and 3 staves respectively	The woodcuts are coloured with red, blue, and yellow washes. The first, on fol. 7v, measuring 100 × 70 mm, depicts the Annunciation. The Virgin Mary, dressed in a red tunic and blue overmantel, kneels at a prie-dieu in an aperture, facing outwards, an open book before her; a lamp is suspended above her. The angel Gabriel, dressed in red with a blue undergarment, approaches from the left and offers Mary a white lily with a blue stem. The Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, watches the scene from above a closed door to the right of the angel. In the background, the frieze across the top of the wall reads ‘AVE GRATIA PLENA DOMINV[S] …’, and is surmounted by two books, one open, upright and facing the scene, the other closed and lying down. Above the wall are white clouds and blue sky. The second woodcut, on fol. 18v, measures 150 × 110 mm, and depicts the birth of the Virgin Mary. Anne lies in bed, surrounded by drapes coloured alternately red and blue. She is tended by three women, one dressed in red, another in blue, two of whom are offering sustenance, while the third stands behind the bed. In the foreground, two further servants, one on the left dressed in blue and kneeling behind a flagon of water, the other dressed in red and seated, bathe the infant Mary.
Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
penned initials	sometimes		calligraphic , flourished	at the beginning of compositions and sections, one or two staves over ruled staves with notations indented
penned initials	often		littera notabilior	Below the stave, for second letters after initials or beginning of subsections
Other decoration frequency		Folios	Other decoration type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
normally			embellished final barline
sometimes			decorated letters		elaborate penwork on some text descenders

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