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 65 (olim H.C. 48; = MaiM 5)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: D-Mbs 65

DIAMM Source Key: 2207

Image repositories: Digitale Bibliothek (BSB Munich)

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1515-20

c. 1520 (Bente 1968); c. 1515-6 (Rifkin 1976b).

Location of origin: Augsburg, Germany ; Munich, Germany

Provenance

Possibly copied in Augsburg by Ludwig Senfl (Bente 1968); copied in Munich (Rifkin 1976b). Kept in Munich Hofkapelle library until end of 18th century, then transferred to ducal court library, whose holdings formed foundation of present Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Gwalth(er), P. SL.
Person type: scribe
Note: Copied by two scribes (<a href="/bibliography/#entry817" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Rifkin, Joshua, ‘Ein römisches Messenrepertoire am bayerischen Hof—Bemerkungen zum Wolfenbütteler Chorbuch A Aug. 2° und zu seinem Umkreis’, paper read at colloquium Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, held at Wolfenbüttel, September 14–17, 1976 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Rifkin 1976b</a>), one of whom was probably "P. SL. Gwalth(er)," whose name appears on f. 3; the same scribe also wrote D-Mbs 510 (<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>) and D-W A (<a href="/bibliography/#entry817" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Rifkin, Joshua, ‘Ein römisches Messenrepertoire am bayerischen Hof—Bemerkungen zum Wolfenbütteler Chorbuch A Aug. 2° und zu seinem Umkreis’, paper read at colloquium Formen und Probleme der Überlieferung mehrstimmiger Musik im Zeitalter Josquins Desprez, held at Wolfenbüttel, September 14–17, 1976 "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Rifkin 1976b</a>).

Basis for description: original

Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 65 (olim H.C. 48; = MaiM 5), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: ii + 200 + ii

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 421 x 283

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto top right, 1-202 (by J. J. Maier) (includes front flyleaves).

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking none visible
Ruled grid normally,
single line to left and right
Ruling pattern fairly regular
Staves normally ruled on a 8-line grid, but sometimes free
Staves omitted from grid occasionally
Incomplete staves often,
length of staves adjusted to amount of music
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
hard point or 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 occasionally for (unexecuted) initials at beginnig of pieces and main sections
single normally on most openings for every voice, ether to accommodate (unexecuted) initials or voice names or (more frequently) for visual separation only
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
variable space, not on grid occasionally
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, often narrow and sloped backwards
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions fairly few
Abbreviations fairly few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text Composer ascriptions, and titles, sometimes. Tacet and canonic inscriptions, occasionally.

Decoration

Level of Decoration poor
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials rarely 44v-45r calligraphic cadel-type initials, for text in D and for voice names in other voices
initials planned normally Lagre initials clearly planned for beginning of pieces and main sections, first letter of sung text in D and of voice name in others.