Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français MS 2245, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: ii + 33 + ii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 178 x 122
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Modern ink foliation recto top right, 1-33
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
none visible,
Justification lines sometimes visible, text lines not visible; but text inscribed in a fairly regular way suggests ruling. |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
The same ruling patter throughout: 5 staves on the verso and 8 staves on the recto with additional staves sometimes added on the verso. |
Staves omitted from grid | sometimes |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | always | Justification lines are in brown ink, text lines are not visible. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
light brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | always | Indentation occurs in the top line of each recto and verso and in the fifth lines of a recto-side of each leaf. | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | 1v, 3v, 4r, 6v, 10v, 11v, 12r, 15v, 25r, 32r | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | sometimes | 18r, 19r, 24r | Text added in the lower margin or on an empty stave. |
provided, in dedicated space | normally | Additional stanzas are usually written in the space left empty below discantus. | |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 17r, 18r | |
made for complete additional staves | occasionally | 20v, 21v | It is difficult to say whether these additional staves were adhoc or pre-planned adaptations. Similar staves but without notation were added on ff. 15v, 22v, 25v and on blank folios, ff. 27v, 29v, 32v, 33v. |
Copying of text and music 1
Language(s) | Dutch, French |
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Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with two texts | all except discantus | rarely | 12r | |
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | 1v-11v, 12v-13r | |
partially texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 14r, 15r | |
provided with single incipit | contratenor | rarely | 14r, 24r | |
partially texted with one text | contratenor | occasionally | 15r, 18r, 23r | |
fully texted with one or two texts | discantus | rarely | 18v | |
partially texted with one or two texts | all except discantus | rarely | 19r | |
partially texted with one text | all except discantus | rarely | 20r | |
partially texted with one text | all voice parts | rarely | 21v-22r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | light brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | Rhomboid-shaped notation |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | 9v, 10r, 11v, 12r, 12v, 13r, 14v, 15r, 18v, 19r, 19v, 20r, 20v, 21r, 22v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 25v, 26r | |
signes-de-renvoi | 18v, 19r, 20v, 21r, 21v, 22r | symbols of a cross (ff. 18v-19r, 20v-21r) |
repeat signs | 21v, 22r | |
pointers | 24v | A pair of dice used as pointer at the beginning of two parts of a canon; two dice displaying four points indicate that the canonic realisation of the upper voice starts four breves later than the written voice, and at the interval of a fourth lower; and two dice displaying five and four points indicate that the canonic realisation of the lower voice starts five breves later than the written voice, and at the interval of a fourth lower. |
Later changes | Folios | |
Corrected text | f. 24v |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | light brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
12r, 18v |
Text repetitions |
very few
21v |
Abbreviations | very few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
1v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17r, 17v, 18v, 19v, 22v, 23v, 24r, 25v, Additional stanzas written below discantus, with two exception (ff. 17r, 24r) where the additional text is provided also below cotratenor. |
Liminary text |
Performance instructions and rubrics: 'Royal' (written vertically, f. 2v) and 'Canon' 'Royal' (f. 16v); 'verte folium (f. 11r); 'residuum' (f. 11v); 'bourbon' (ff. 17v, 20v, 22v); 'canon' (f. 24v);
Names of composers: 'hayne' (ff. 1v, 4v, 5v, 6v, 8v, 14v, 17v, 19v), 'Compere' or [com]pere (ff. 2v, 7v, 9v, 10, 12v, 15v, 20v, 22v, 24v), 'Prioris' (f. 3v), 'Ver Jeust (f. 6v); 'Okeghem' (ff. 13v, 16v); 'Fresneau' (f. 18v); 'Agricola' (f. 21v); 'Mureau' (f. 23v); 'Josquin' (f. 25r); 'Lafoulerie' (f. 25v).,
1v, 2v, 3v, 5v, 6v, 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11r, 12v, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 18v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v, 25r, 25v |
Copying of text and music 2
Language(s) | n/a |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
n/a
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
untexted | all voice parts | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | poor |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 1v | 30 x 31 mm, lower margin. | Coat of arms of Louis, Duke of Orleans, France modern with the label of three points, with the feur-de-lys and the label painted in liquid gold on blue ground. | |||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
rarely | decorated | 1v | partial borders: two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | Blue and red acanthus leaves on gold grounds. | |
rarely | decorated | 1v | partial borders: two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | Blue and red acanthus leaves on gold grounds. | |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | always | decorated | Initials with a foliate decoration en camaïeu d'or on red or blue grounds. | |||
initials planned | rarely | 31v-32r |