PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Perugia, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M.36)

Manuscript type: music treatise(s) containing polyphony

RISM siglum: I-PEc 1013

DIAMM Source Key: 1456

Folio(s): 69v-70v, 81v-123r

Date: 1509-52

1509 (date at end of two treatises); five pieces added slightly later; canons added in 1552 (date on f. 138v).

Location of origin: Venice, Italy

Provenance

Main corpus copied in Venice; the original owner and compiler was Johannes Materanensis (inscription on f. 45v). Later owned by the merchant, politician, and amateur musician Raffaele Sozi (1529-89) of Perugia.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Materanensis, Johannes
Person type: scribe
Note: Treatises and most polyphonic examples copied by Johannes Materanensis; five pieces added slightly later by a different hand; canons added in 1552 by two other scribes, probably associates of Raffaele Sozi.

Basis for description: microfilm

Perugia, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 (M.36), 69v-70v, 81v-123r

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 139

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 210 x 155

Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation recto top right, 1-139.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid never,
no lines visible
Ruling pattern fairly regular
8 pentagrams (rarely hexagrams or tetragrams)
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
n/a always
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
black always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always tetragram
freehand normally fifth (and more rarely sixth) line added below tetragram
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
not in dedicated space sometimes instructions below music or in margins

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
untexted all voice parts normally provided with instructions rather than text to be sung
provided with single incipit all voice parts occasionally
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note teardrop-shaped notation
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
signes-de-renvoi sometimes, some quite flamboyant
Text
Types of script cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions n/a
Abbreviations very few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text instructions and eplanations, below music or in margins. Composer ascriptions, rarely

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor