Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français MS 1597 (olim Colbert 1625), All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: ii + 78 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 279 x 201
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: f. i v (front flyleaf): written in two columns:
Sensuit La table de ce present livre. Et premier
Deul et ennuy I
Beata es maria ii
Da pacem domine iii
Da pacem domine iiii
Dulcis amica dei v
Si sumpsero vi
O q[uam] glorifica vii
Si dedero viii
Mes pensees ix
Leure est venue x
Despitant fortune xi
Allez Regretz xii
Les grans regretz xiii
Vatem regret xiiii
Qui belles amors a xv
Si ie vo[u]s eslongne xvi
Si vous voulez estre xviii
Ha quil mennuye xx
Seal et eureux xxi
La saison en est xxii
Penser en voies xxiii
Venez regretez xxiiii
Des fais mondains xxv
De plus en plus xxvi
Mon souvenir xxvii
A heur le tiens xxviii
Tant ay dennuyt xxix
Comme femme desconfortee xxx
Si congie prens xxxi
Si mieulx ne vient xxxii
Plus que aultre xxxiii
En lombre dung buyssonnet xxxiiii
La Regrettee xxxv
Ja scay tout xxxvi
Fors seullement xxxvii
Il nest vinant xxxviii
Vostre beaulte xxxix
helas pour quoy xl
Je ne viz oncques xli
Royne dez flours xlii
fousons boutons xliii
fin chyo vivo xliiii
Yo so contento xlv
Que vous ma dame xlvi
La gaye pastoure xlvii
Se iay perdu mon amy xlviii
Mon seul plaisir xlix
Ce moys de may l
Pastourelle lii
Belle se iavoye liii
Amoureuse my fault est liiii
Tant bel my sont lv
Se iavoye de la foie lvi
Lourdault lvii
Lautre tour my lviii
La nuyt sen va lix
Il estoit ung bon homme lx
Fors seulement lxi
Crux triumphans lxii
My levay lxiiii
Mary de par sa mere lxv
La cuillier dor lxvi
faictes sil vous plait lxvii
Ne par dieu lxviii
Seulette suis lxix
Mon mari ma diffamee lxx
Lamour de moy lxxii
Mannette ma mande lxxiiii
A lombre du bissonnet lxxvi
Triste et pensif lxxvii
Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation (in Roman numerals) recto top centre (except f. 78), i-lxxvii
2. Modern red ink foliation verso top left, 1-74 (omitting folios after ff. 70, 71, 72, 74).
3. Quire/leaf signatures, ff. 64-67: ai, aii, aiii aiiii
4. Modern quire numbering in pencil.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
normally,
Pricking holes indicate text lines, which are not, however, visible. |
Ruled grid |
always,
Justification only; text lines not visible. |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
lead point | normally | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | normally | ||
none | rarely | 7r, 9r | There is sometimes no indentation of staves for initials at the beginning of third voice in three-voice compositions or second and fourth voice in four-voice compositions. Initials are usually placed on staves with text and music indented. On f. 9r, initial is placed in the same line at the end of the voice part. |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | Ruled staves left empty below discantus in three-voice compositions and occasionally between the voices. | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | rarely | iv | Additional stanzas are included in the space left below discantus. |
not in dedicated space | normally | 9v, 10v, 16v, 18v, 21v, 22v, 27v, 32v, 36v, 38v, 40v, 43v | Additional stanzas written below discantus over ruled staves. |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | 1r, 42r, 48r, 57v, 62r | |
notation extended into margin | sometimes | 34r, 35r, 35v, 39v, 40r, 42r, 43r, 45v, 46r, 48v-49v, 54r-55v, 56v, 58v, 59v-60r, 61r, 72v, 75v |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French, Italian, Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one or two texts | all voice parts | occasionally | 48v-49r | |
partially texted with one or two texts | contratenor | rarely | ff. 44r, 51r | |
fully texted with one text | all except cotratenor | often | 6v-7r, 11v-12r, 13v-14r, 16v-20r, 21v-23r, 24v-26r, 27v-29r, 33v-42r, 56v-57r | |
partially texted with one text | all except discantus | rarely | 45v-46r, 75v-76r | |
partially texted with one text | contratenor | rarely | 56r, 57r, 59r | |
partially texted with one text | bassus | occasionally | 56r, 65r | check |
fully texted with one or two texts | bassus | rarely | 51r, 58r | |
fully texted with one text | discantus | normally | ||
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | often | iiv-5r, 14v-15r, 26v-27r, 44v-45r, 47v-48r, 49v-50r, 51v-55r, 59v-60r, 61v-64r, 65v-75r | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus | sometimes | 5v-6r, 7v-10r, 12v-13r, 15v-16r, 20v-21r, 23v-24r, 32v-33r, 46v-47r, 60v-61r | |
provided with two incipits | all except discantus | rarely | 10v-11r | |
untexted | contratenor | rarely | 29r, 77r | |
provided with single incipit | all voice parts | rarely | 29v-30r | |
partially texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 31r, 32r, 43r, 77r | |
provided with single incipit | contratenor | often | 7r, 12r, 14r, 17r, 18r, 19r, 20r, 22r, 23r, 25r, 26r, 28r, 31r, 32r, 34r, 35r, 36r, 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 41r, 42r, 43r, 59r | |
fully texted with one or two texts | all except cotratenor | rarely | 43v-44r | |
fully texted with one text | tenor | occasionally | 55v, 57v, 58v, 64v | check voice disposition |
provided with single incipit | bassus | rarely | 59r | check |
fully texted with one text | bassus | occasionally | 65r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
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 |
---|---|---|
repeat signs | 43v-44r, 48v-49r, 51r | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Added partially texted, 3-voice composition | 78r |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
11r, 43v-44r, 48v-49r, 51r, 65v-66r, 75v |
Text repetitions |
fairly many
iv-1r, 14v-15r, 44v-45r, 47v-48r, 51v-52r, 53r, 55v, 56v-58v, 59v-60r, 63v-64r, 65v-75v |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
iv, 9v, 10v, 16v, 18v, 21v, 22v, 27v, 32v, 36v, 38v, 40v, 43v |
Liminary text |
Performance instruction: 'verte folium' (f. 57v).,
57v |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 78v | Added on a page, previously left blank, at the end of the volume; 112 x 90 mm. | Coat of arms of Dukes of Lorraine in colours and gold. | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
always | decorated | partial borders: two- and three-sided | inner margin, outer margin, upper margin | Partial borders, covering only a portion of the margin next to initials, decorated with a repeated initial letter in black or white on gold ground. | ||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | always | decorated | Initials in black or white with foliate decoration on gold grounds. |