PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Cappella Giulia XII 2 (olim C.48)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Rvat CG XII.2

DIAMM Source Key: 1496

Image repositories: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1518-89

Ca. 1518-21 (Parts I and III); ca. 1569-89 (Part II).

Location of origin: Rome, Italy

Provenance

Copied in Rome, for use by Cappella Giulia

Artists/Scribes

Person: Gellandi, Claudius
Person type: scribe
Note: ff. 19v-20v, 105r-106r, 107v-121r and part of f. 260r, as well as several titles

Person: Bouchet, Claudius
Person type: scribe
Note: ff. 243v-259v and part of f. 260r

Person: Pettorini , Alessandro
Person type: scribe
Note: ff. 30r-32v, 122r, 123v-145r, 148v-169r, 214r-215v, 240r-240v

Person: 'Medici scribe'
Person type: scribe
Note: ff. 186v-202r, 203v-206r, 225v-239v, 241-242. The same scribe copied the majority of I-Fl 666 and parts of CV-Vbav Capp. Sist. 46.

Basis for description: original

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Cappella Giulia XII 2 (olim C.48), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + 261 + i

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 550 x 425

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Original foliation, brown ink recto top right, xv-xlix (= 1-35), lxxvii-cvi (= 36-55), cxxv-clix (= 56-87, 87bis, 88-89), clxxv-ccvi and 207-345 (= 90-260).
2. Modern foliation pencil recto bottom right, 1-260 (one uncounted folio after f. 87).
3. front pastedown: number '48' on label pasted in, below that 'VIIII' large in pencil; on front endpaper, bottom centre: 'C' in red ink

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

1-121, 170-260

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking none visible
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, occasionally also lines for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
10 pentagrams, very even and parallel.
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
brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
double rastrum sometimes 24.5 + 25 mm
single rastrum sometimes 26 mm
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
double always top two staves c. 3-4 cm deep; sometimes filled in. Lower voices music and text indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid normally
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation extended into margin occasionally custodes normally

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
fully texted with one text all voice parts normally
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note even rhomboid shape with straight, tapered stems
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy high
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
signes-de-renvoi sometimes
Text
Types of script cursive
Types of script size position various styles depending on scribe, some more French (batarde-like), some more Italianate
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions few
Abbreviations some
Non underlaid vocal text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials normally calligraphic cadels, moderately ornate. Referring to sung text in all voices
122-169

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking none visible
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, text on single line, present throughout
Ruling pattern highly regular
10 pentagrams, very even and parallel.
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
lead point always
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
double rastrum always 24 + 25 mm 20.5 mm apart
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
double always Top two staves c. 4-6 cm deep. Lower voices music and text indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid normally
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation and staves extended into margin rarely
notation extended into margin rarely custodes always

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
fully texted with one text all voice parts normally
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note even rhomboid shape with heads and stems slightly leaning counterclockwise
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy high
Text
Types of script cursive (Italianate)
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions few
Abbreviations few
Non underlaid vocal text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials normally calligraphic cadels, quite simple. Referring to sung text in all voices