PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 31 (olim H.C.30; = MaiM 71)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 31

DIAMM Source Key: 2003

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich)

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1510

c. 1510, with restorations c. 1530-40 (Bente 1968).

Location of origin: Munich, Germany ; Vienna, Austria

Provenance

Presumably copied in Vienna, for use by the imperial court chapel of Maximilian I (1459-1519). Probably taken to Munich by Ludwig Senfl c. 1523, when he began serving at the court chapel of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550). At Munich, fascicles assembled in present order, several lost folios replaced with newly copied leaves, and volume bound in present covers. Kept in Hofkapelle library until end of 18th century, then transferred to ducal court library, whose holdings formed foundation of present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Wagenrieder, Lucas
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Vienna, Austria
Note: <p>Probably copied by Ludwig Senfl, with later restorations by Lucas Wagenrieder (<a href="/bibliography/#entry364" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Bente, Martin, Neue Wege der Quellenkritik und die Biographie Ludwig Senfls (Wiesbaden, 1968) "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Bente 1968</a>) although both ascriptions are now considered doubtful. Some pieces in main corpus in a different script (perhaps the work of a second, unidentified scribe, or perhaps a variant form of Senfl's hand).</p>

Person: Senfl, Ludwig
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Vienna, Austria
Note: <p>Probably copied by Ludwig Senfl, with later restorations by Lucas Wagenrieder (<a href="/bibliography/#entry364" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Bente, Martin, Neue Wege der Quellenkritik und die Biographie Ludwig Senfls (Wiesbaden, 1968) "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Bente 1968</a>) although both ascriptions are now considered doubtful. Some pieces in main corpus in a different script (perhaps the work of a second, unidentified scribe, or perhaps a variant form of Senfl's hand).</p>

Bibliography

Bente 1966, Bente 1968, Blume 1929–, Hell 1983, Kirsch 1977, Lerner 1974–, Maier 1879, Pätzig 1956, Riedel 1951, Schmitz et al. 1955–, Staehelin 1971, Staehelin 1977, Wagner 1913

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 31 (olim H.C.30; = MaiM 71), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 275

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 480 x 315

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: Partial original index pasted inside front cover.

Other devices: Modern pencil foliation, 1-272, by J. J. Maier ("72" applied to two consecutive folios; "210" applied to three consecutive folios).

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking sometimes
Ruled grid rarely,
Staves ruled flexibly to accommodate music
Ruling pattern fairly irregular
Staves omitted from grid n/a
Incomplete staves sometimes,
length of staves adjusted to amount of music
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
none occasionally
single normally first stave of each voice-part normally indented for voice-names (no initials)
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
variable space, not on grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always

Copying of text and music

Language(s) German, 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
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note rhomboid-shaped notation
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Text 1
Types of script display script
Types of script size position Voice designations (upright in indentations), composer ascriptions, some liturgical rubrics
Level of calligraphy high,
slightly larger and more elaborate than sung text, but clearly by the same scribe
Colour(s) of text red
Multiple texts yes
Cantus firmus voice(s) sometimes with both ordinary and cantus firmus texts
Text 2
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts yes
Cantus firmus voice(s) sometimes with both ordinary and cantus firmus texts
Abbreviations very few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text Voice designations, composer ascriptions, some liturgical rubrics

Decoration

Level of Decoration poor
Other decoration frequency Folios Other decoration type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
normally littera notabilior Voice designations (upright in indentations), composer ascriptions, some liturgical rubrics slightly larger and more elaborate than sung text, but clearly by the same scribe