Segovia, Spain, Archivo Capitular de la Catedral, MS s.s., All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: iii + 207 + iii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 289 x 209
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: 'Canto de organo' on front cover, no longer visible.
Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation recto top centre, v–ccxxviii (Missing folios: i–iii, vi–viii, ciiii–cxi, cxcix, ccvi, ccxviii–ccxxi, ccxxiii)
2. Original quire signatures, ink recto top right.
3. Modern foliation 1-207 added between 1994 edition and 2004 restoration; as not visible in the printed facsimile, original foliation is used here: 5, 9-103, 110, 112-198, 200-205, 207-217, 220, 222, 224-228.
4. Unidentified watermark: hand with double-banded cuff and six-petalled flower (generally resembles Briquet #11154; facsimile in [[Baker 1978]]). First recto (f. 5r) has a mark in the upper margin, from the time when the manuscript was examined during the inquisition and deemed to be appropriate; the same mark is found on other books in the cathedral archive.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
sometimes,
Justification lines only. Often invisible. |
Ruling pattern |
fairly irregular
Staves often unevenly spaced, not parallel to one another. |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
very light ink or hard point | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | Additional staves drawn freehand, after initial preparation of manuscript. | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | always | Single stave indented, on: first and sixth lines of page: ff. 5r-v, 9-12v, 13v-50r, 52v-112v, 113v-134v, 136r-202v; first and fifth lines: f. 135r; first and seventh lines: ff. 9r, 13r, 51v-52r, 113r, 203r. Second indent is often filled in free-hand if it falls in an inconvenient place. | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | normally | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation extended into margin | rarely | ||
notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | ||
partial additional staves | rarely | 34r, 35r, 66r, 67r, 69r, 110v, 119r, 122r, 136r, 171r, 178v, 214v | |
staveline added | sometimes | ||
made for complete additional staves | rarely | 21r, 39r, 51r | |
Indentation for initials filled in | often |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Flemish, French, Latin, Spanish |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
text first
often |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
partially texted with one text | discantus | rarely | 9v | |
provided with single incipit | all voice parts | sometimes | ||
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | sometimes | ||
fully texted with one or two texts | all voice parts | rarely | 214v, 216r | |
untexted | all voice parts | rarely | 216r | |
fully texted with one or two texts | discantus | occasionally | 5r-v, 10r-11r, 31v-35r, 169r, 207r, 208v-211v, 212v-220v, 224r-226r | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus | occasionally | 5r-v, 9v, 10r-11r, 31v-35r, 169r, 207r, 208v-211v, 212v-220v, 224r-226r | |
provided with single incipit | discantus | rarely | 15v-16v, 56v-57r, 176v, 179r-v, 205r | |
untexted | all except discantus | rarely | 179r-v, 205r | |
fully texted with one text | all except discantus | rarely | 15v-16v, 56v-57r, 176v | |
provided with single incipit | tenor | rarely | 12v-13r, 19v-20r, 22v-23r, 46v-47r, 48v-51r, 55v-56r, 151r | |
fully texted with one text | all except tenor | rarely | 12v-13r, 19v-20r, 22v-23r, 46v-47r, 48v-51r, 55v-56r, 151r | |
fully texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 158v | |
provided with single incipit | all except tenor | rarely | 158v | |
fully texted with one text | discantus and tenor | rarely | 53v-54r | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 53v-54r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation |
present
200r |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
repeat signs | 15v, 30v, 32v, 33v, 34v, 35v, 36v, 37v, 78v, 79v, 127r, 189r, 217r | |
signa congruentiae | more common from 140v onwards | |
space-filler | 9v | elongated final long |
signes-de-renvoi | Fairly common: used each time one voice part is spread across two pages, and each time to signal extra notation (omitted owing to eyeskip). Often takes form of a trefoil with a descending tail; Lama de la Cruz (1994) claims this is in fact the word 'ojo', Spanish for 'eye' or 'careful!'. If this is the case, it is a very stylised form of the letters, with a large circle as the 'dot' of the j. | |
end symbol | triple barline, sometimes double barline | |
Later changes | Folios | |
pentrials | 228v |
Text 1
Types of script | cursive |
Level of calligraphy |
poor,
207r-208r: calligraphy very poor |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
208v, 212v, 214r-v, 216r, 217r, 220r, 224r-226r |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
15v, 207r, 209r, 210v-211r, 212v-213v, 214v, 216r, 217r-v, in blank stave |
Liminary text |
'canon': 5v, 9v, 10v, 18r, 19v, 22v, 39v, 53r-v, 110v
'tacet': common throughout masses
'ad longum': 19v
'ut supra': 22v, 24v
'require': 52v, 54r
'verte folium': 78v-80r, 83v-84r, 195v-196r
'secunda pars': 94v
'duo' 153v-154r, 176v, 200r-205v
composer's name normally provided, placed in centre of upper margin, on verso if piece spreads across opening.
description of mensural relations ('dupla', 'tripla', 'sequiquarta' etc) 200v-201r,
5v, 9v, 10v, 18r, 19v, 22v, 24v, 39v, 52v-54r, 78v-80r, 83v-84r, 94v, 110v, 153v-154r, 176v, 195v-196r, 200r-205v |
Text 2
Types of script | hybrida |
Types of script size position | vertical descending voice names at start of lower voice parts (other liminary text written in neat cursiva) coincides with calligraphic, flourished initials |
Types of script folios | 5r-52r, 95v-96r, 110r |
Types of script note | formal hybrida |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | n/a |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
never | ||||||
Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
never | None | None | ||||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
penned initials | rarely | 227v | plain initials | one stave tall, start of each voice | ||
initials planned | normally | 52v-94r, 96v-109v, 110v-134r, 135r-227r, 228r-v | First stave of each voice indented (but lower indent often filled in with stave lines drawn freehand). | |||
penned initials | sometimes | 5r-v, 9r-52r, 94v-96r, 110r, 134v | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, flourished | One stave high (stave indented), for each voice or for the first voice of each page. | Same or similar ink to the text, but drawn with a thicker nib. Fine, ornate flourishing of the initial is found on most initials from f. 40v onwards | |
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
never |