Perugia, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 431 (G.20), All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + 164 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 213 x 143
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: Inscription on new f. 31: "YHS MARIA. A° DI M.D.LVI. … RAPHAEL SOCIUS".
Other devices: 1. Original red ink foliation verso top centre, 6-7 and 13-164 (= ff. 1-5 and 8-12 now missing; last 9 folios and one folio between ff. 35/36 unnumbered).
2. Modern pencil foliation recto top right, 1-26, 26bis-164 (including rear endpaper)
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
Vertical bounding lines only, no text lines visible |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
often drawn with little care |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point or lead point | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | often | ||
brown | often | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | sometimes lines traced freehand over ruled staves. | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | music and text indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials | |
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 | often | on empty staves between or below music | |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
made for complete additional staves | rarely | ||
notation extended into margin | often | ||
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | ||
partial additional staves | occasionally | ||
staveline added | occasionally |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French, Italian, Latin, Spanish |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid-shaped or teardrop-shaped notation, variable depending on scribe |
Monophonic notation |
present
chant intonations, rarely |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Level of calligraphy note | variable according to scribe |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | as simple lines, pointing hands, or repetition of voice designation | |
end symbol | 60v-83r | elaborated and decorated final barline |
Later changes | Folios | |
canonic or mensural exercises, remarks on mensural/notational theory | 27r, 31r, 36r, 136v-137r, 145v-146r, 154v-156r, 160v-161r, 163v | |
Added short pieces or voices added to existing pieces, by later hand (R. Sozi) | 79r, 110v-11r, 115r, 116r, 133v-134r |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Types of script note | depending on scribe, with textura elements |
Level of calligraphy |
fair,
variable according to scribe |
Colour(s) of text | black brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
multiple strophes, rarely |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
additional strophes between or below notated music on empty staves |
Liminary text | Voice-names, with initials (except D); composer ascriptions, sometimes (often only initials) |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads, flourished, littera notabilior | for every voice-part, in D relating to sung text, in other voices to voice-name. | Varying levels of calligraphy. In lower voices sometimes only voice designation with embellished first letter | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
sometimes | 60v-83r | embellished final barline |