Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouvelles acquisitions françaises MS 1817, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: 84
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 123 x 175
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: Original index on ff. 1r-2v, contemporary but in a different hand than the body of the manuscript, lists first 42 pieces only, in alphabetical order by title:
Alonfere barbes ...ac 10
Ave regina celorum …..ac 27
Bases moy ….ac 2
Ciaschun merie ...ac 15
Che fa la ramansina 25
Damene um pocho
Et leves vous le ghuslem[et]te ac 4
entre ye suis ac 19
elonieronons ac 29
Gentil chalans ac 9
figle vos aves ac 16
Flores apparuerunt ac 47
Je nau duel ac 1
iuli marine ac 4
ie suis amie ac 8
in illo tempore ac 35
il estoyt ac 21
Lorbau Lorbau ac 5
Lamor de moy ac 22
La lire voir ac 24
Liber generationis ac 39
Mayre de dio tant ac 23
O bone et dulcissime yhesu ac 26
Palle palle ac 38
Quis vabit capiti meo ac 48
quis dabit pacem ac 44
Sic fet ung hop ac 13
si ie vous avoye ac 14
sustinuimus ac 25
si oblitus fuero ac 31
Tambien mi son pensar ac 11
tambur tambur ac 11
ta ravis suis ac 22
tulerunt ac 43
tota pulchra ac 46
Une plaisante fislet ac 3
vexilla dans ac 5
voire bargetonette ac 6
vole oyr ac 10
vim la forosetta (sic) ac 17
una mosca ac 30
vra a do (sic) ac 30
Other devices: 1. Original brown ink foliation recto top right, mostly trimmed, i-[lxxxi] (= 4-84).
2. Modern ink foliation recto top right, 1-84 (including flyleaves)
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
Justifcation lines to left and right, no text lines visible |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | rarely |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | normally | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | occasionally | music and text indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | 16r, 19r, 20r, 22r, 23v, 29r, 31v, 34r, 37v, 41v, 49r, 51r, , 52r, 52v, 77r, 78r. | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staveline added | rarely | 6r | |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 29r |
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 text | tenor | normally | ||
fully texted with one or two texts | tenor | occasionally | 4r-4v | |
provided with two incipits | tenor | occasionally | 22v-23r, 33r-33v, 41r-41v | |
partially texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 32v-33r, 72r-73v | |
untexted | tenor | occasionally | 25v-26r, 53r-54r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
Colour of notation note | <p>predominantly brown and dark brown notation with black or almost black notation on ff. 10-10v; 34v-45v, 53r-54r, 72r-78; and with coloration sometimes in black, e.g., ff. 14v-17r, 18r, 22v.</p> |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | Teradrop-shaped notation, somewhat angular; ff. 76v-78r rhomboid-shaped notation |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
repeat signs | 4v | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
occasionally | 58r, 62v | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Two compositions added by a different hand: Josquin Despres, Missusst Gabriel angelus ad Mariam (ff. 76v-77r) and Manus Domini fecerunt me attributed to Martino Pesenti or A. Danglon (ff. 77v-78r). | 76v-78r |
Text 1
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Types of script folios | 4r-76r |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts |
yes
4r-4v |
Text repetitions |
fairly many
5r, 7r-7v, 8v-9v, 10v-11r, 12v, 14v-15v, 21v, 24r-24v, 34v-35v, 37v, 55r, 55v, 56r, 57r |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text |
Performance instructions: 'Laurus impetu tacet' (f. 52r) and 'verte' (f. 70r).,
52r, 70r |
Text 2
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Types of script folios | 76v-78r |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 41r | At the beginning of Isaac's 'Palle, palle,'; 57 x 131 mm. | Medici arms surmounted by a cardinal hat. | |||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | normally | decorated | Beginning of songs. | Painted initials in blue, purple, green, and silver on blue, green, or red grounds, with gold filigree patterns and floral designs. | Initial on f. 4r with marginal extensions of gold leaves. | |
painted initials | rarely | 64r | historiated | At the beginning of Heinrich Isaac, 'Prophetarum maxime vatumque princeps.' | Initial 'P'[rophetarum maxime] of a dog chained to a tree, with a motto 'Costante' on a scroll behind. | |
initials planned | rarely | 76v, 77r |