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 35 (olim H.C. 24; = MaiM 62)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 35

DIAMM Source Key: 2004

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich)

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1510-31

Bente 1968

Location of origin: Munich, Germany ; Vienna, Austria

Provenance

Earliest layers possibly copied in Vienna, for use by the imperial court chapel of Maximilian I (1459-1519) (Bente 1968). Possibly taken to Munich by Ludwig Senfl ca. 1523, when he began serving at the court chapel of Wilhelm IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550). At Munich, additional pieces copied, fascicles assembled in present order, 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: Senfl, Ludwig
Person type: scribe
Note: <p><span>Ff. 88v-109 copied by an unidentified scribe, whose hand also appears in D-Mbs 19, 36, 38, and (probably) 37. Remainder of manuscript copied by two scribes identified in <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> as Ludwig Senfl and Lucas Wagenrieder although doubt has been cast on the ascription.</span></p>

Person: Wagenrieder, Lucas
Person type: scribe
Note: <p><span>Ff. 88v-109 copied by an unidentified scribe, whose hand also appears in D-Mbs 19, 36, 38, and (probably) 37. Remainder of manuscript copied by two scribes identified in <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> as Ludwig Senfl and Lucas Wagenrieder although doubt has been cast on the ascription.</span></p>

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe
Note: <p><span>Ff. 88v-109 copied by an unidentified scribe, whose hand also appears in D-Mbs 19, 36, 38, and (probably) 37. Remainder of manuscript copied by two scribes identified in <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> as Ludwig Senfl and Lucas Wagenrieder although doubt has been cast on the ascription.</span></p>

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 35 (olim H.C. 24; = MaiM 62), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 207

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 465 x 320

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: label pasted to front pastedown: 'Sanctorum dierum / Estiualium / Liber B'

Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto top right, 1-207 (by J. J. Maier).
2. Original quire marks (a-z, aa-dd) sometimes present, recto bottom right on first folio of quire.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking sometimes
Ruled grid rarely,
Single line to left and right.
Ruling pattern fairly irregular
Staves ruled flexibly to accommodate music
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
double rarely
none rarely
single normally usually for visual separation only
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
variable space, not on grid normally
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always

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 normally
fully texted with two texts all voice parts occasionally
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 high
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black red
75v-86r second text in red ink where present
Multiple texts yes
75v-86r
Abbreviations fairly few
Liminary text Liturgical rubrics (in red ink); voice designations (only at beginning of pieces, incorporating initials); composer ascriptions, normally (in red ink); tacet inscriptions

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials sometimes 2v-3r, 25v-26r, 46v-47r, 70v-71r, 88v-89r, 111v-112r, 127v-128r, 160v-161r, 177v-178r, 191v-192r calligraphic simple initials in red, blue and green