Basel, Switzerland, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS F VI 26 f, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 8
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 315 x 220
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: None
Index / Table of Contents: None
Non-musical texts: None
Other devices: Original ink foliation top centre, xii-xviiii (xviii erroneously foliated as xiii)
Modern pencil foliation top left, 1-8
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
always,
Brown ink, outer margin 19-25, inner margin 16–20 |
Ruling pattern | fairly irregular |
Staves omitted from grid | always |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
dark brown ink | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
dark brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
freehand | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | occasionally | 1r, 2v, 5r, 7r | 7r no stave indent, the initial and stave lines overlap. |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | normally | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | often | 1r, 1v, 3r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | German |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
provided with one or two incipits | all voice parts | often | ||
provided with single incipit | discantus | sometimes | ||
untexted | all except discantus | sometimes |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | poor |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | ||
coronae | ||
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
none |
Text
Types of script | cursive (German) |
Level of calligraphy | poor |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | n/a |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
2r, 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r, 5r, 6r, 7r |
Liminary text | Voice-designations on the text underlay space (ff. 1r, 1v, 3v, 4r, 5v, 6r, 7v, 8r, 8v), above the stave (2r), in the margin (3r) or on the stave space (6v, 7r) f. 7v "Der schriber was ein man". |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | occasionally | 1r, 2v, 3v, 7r, | calligraphic | |||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
occasionally | 5r, 5v, 6v, 7r, 8v | Drawings of poor quality added to the empty spaces of the pages. |