Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 38 (olim H.C.47; = MaiM 59), All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 258
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 465 x 325
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Title page on f. 1: "En Opus Musicum festorum dierum hyemalium, … Anno a Christo nato. M.D.XXXI."
Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto top right, 1-258 (by J. J. Maier).
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | sometimes |
Ruled grid | never |
Ruling pattern |
fairly irregular
Staves ruled flexibly to accommodate music |
Staves omitted from grid | n/a |
Incomplete staves |
often,
length of staves adjusted to amount of music |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
none | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double | occasionally | ||
single | normally | for voice-names at beginning of pieces, elsewhere for visual separation only | |
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) | 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 |
present
chant incipits, occasionally |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | occasionally |
Text 1
Types of script | textura |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Liminary text | Liturgical rubrics (in red or black ink); voice designations (at beginning of pieces incorporating initials, sometimes written throughout); composer ascriptions, normally (in red ink); tacet inscriptions, canonic inscriptions (in red ink). |
Text 2
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | Liturgical rubrics (in red or black ink); voice designations (at beginning of pieces incorporating initials, sometimes written throughout); composer ascriptions, normally (in red ink); tacet inscriptions, canonic inscriptions (in red ink). |
Types of script note | Textura, somewhat bigger and more elaborate than sung text |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | occasionally | 80v-81r, 96v-97r, 207v-208r, 219v-220r | plain initials | at beginning of proper cycles | ||
penned initials | occasionally | 4v-5r, 24v-25r, 38v-39r, 60v-61r, 102v-103r, 121v-122r, 143v-144r, 167v-168r, 231v-232r | calligraphic , flourished | at beginning of proper cycles | initials in red, green and blue |