Montserrat, Spain, Monasterio de S Maria, MS 773, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: 131
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 555 x 390
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation: 1-131.
2. Alphanumeric quire signatures sometimes visible in lower recto, but often cropped.
3. Two parchment tabs, covered with a crocheted (?) material to form a small ball: red on f. 45v (Mass by Pierre de la Rue), green on f. 115v (Missa de feria, Pierre de la Rue). Others may have been present on now excised folios.
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
Pricking for justification lines usually visible in upper and lower margins; pricking for staves often visible in outer and inner margins. |
Ruled grid | always |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
Normally: justification lines and two horizontal lines ruled for each line of underlaid text. Only one text line ruled ff. 47v-59r (the upper line, corresponding with the top of the minim height), and ff. 80v-83r (the lower line). The latter case coincides with a change in text hand. [height reduced when lowest stave omitted from grid, c. 400mm; 79v-83v: 338-408 x 276-280] |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
rarely,
51v, 89r |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
triple | occasionally | at beginning of Masses and Kyrie sections | |
double | often | ||
single | often | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
staves not ruled on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | never | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
made for complete additional staves | rarely | 72r | eleventh stave added to lower margin |
partial additional staves | rarely | 51v, 89r | |
notation extended into margin | often | Edge of note protrudes beyond boundary line or barline just beyond stave end, but not extending further into margin. | |
notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | 16v, 39v, 47r, 53v, 70r, 72r, 76r, 85v, 88r, 90r, 93r, 100v, 119r, 124r | ff. 39v, 47r, 53v, 70r, 72r, 76r, 88r, 90r, 93r, 119r: only one or two stave lines extended |
staveline added | sometimes |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Latin |
---|---|
Higlighting | none visible |
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | ||
fully texted with one or two texts | all voice parts | rarely | 80v, 81r, 81v, 82r | canon |
fully texted with one or two texts | tenor | rarely | 87v, 88v, 89v, 90v, 91v, 92v, 96v, 97v | |
fully texted with one text | all except tenor | rarely | 87v, 88v, 89v, 90v, 91v, 92v, 96v, 97v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shaped notation |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | cross with four dots around its centre; trio of balls with descending loop; fire-steels in the shape of 'B' for Burgundy; clover shaped; draped cord | |
signa congruentiae | in form of three pyramidal dots ending in a stroke or loop; in red ink in form of repeat mark with initial for voice name, ff. 79v-83v | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
occasionally |
Text 1
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | for voice-names, 'residuum' rubrics and short instructions |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Text 2
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | very high |
Colour(s) of text | black red Red ink sometimes used for liminary text, chant incipits, ff. 34v-115v (and perhaps also other folios beyond this range, now excised). |
Multiple texts | yes |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | tacet inscriptions (Blackburn 2007), 'tacet', 'residuum', 'verte', 'verte folium', 'verte cito', 'duo', 'canon', composer attribution |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | at beginning of all Masses (all excised) | |||||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | None | None | all excised | |||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , decorated with grotesque heads | remaining initials decorated with grotesque heads (ff. 15r, 46r, 62r, 86r) (coloured: brown, red, blue, green, yellow orange...) calligraphic initials in black ink | |||
painted initials | rarely | all excised |