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 foliosPreparation
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 |