Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 510 (= MaiM 4), All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: 179
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 590 x 405
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto top right, 1-179 (by J. J. Maier) (one folio following f. 118 excluded from enumeration, numbered "118a" by later hand).
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
Single line to left and right, text lines wherever staves ruled. |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
Staves ruled flexibly on 10-line grid |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
often,
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 |
single | normally | for unexecuted initials | |
double | sometimes | for unexecuted initials | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staves not ruled 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 | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | occasionally | |
end symbol | rarely |
Text
Types of script | textura |
Types of script note | with some cursive elements |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly many |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | canon and tacet inscriptions, few; no titles or ascriptions |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | decorated | 1v | partial borders: one-sided | outer margin | ||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | rarely | 1v | decorated, historiated | top left, two lines | Annunciation of the Virgin | |
initials planned | normally | pen drawings for initials and borders on f. 2r (depiction of Cardinal Matthias Lang for C and his arms for T initials), but not executed; for the entire rest of the book only indentations (carefully planned) but no initials. |