St Gall, Switzerland, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 462, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: iv + 87
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 184 x 248
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: owners note and librarians note and various other notes on front and back pastedowns (see [[Scarpatetti 2008]])
Non-musical texts: added poems on various blank pages or parts of pages
Other devices: 1. Contemporary foliation 1-71, black ink top right, continued in black ink (72-73, 18th century) and pencil (74-87, 19th century).
2. 19th-century library pagination 1-9 (front endpapers), pencil top corners, continued in pencil (10-182, 20th century)
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
sometimes,
double line to left and right, rarely, no lines for text |
Ruling pattern |
fairly irregular
2-6 pentagrams, quite variable in precision and regularity of size and spacing |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves | rarely |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
red ink | always | when present | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
red | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
straightedge | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single | always | At beginning of every voice, c. 20-25 mm; in latter part of ms. sometimes forgotten, in those cases music (and where relevant text) sometimes indented over ruled staves to accommodate initials (which are then often not executed) | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
variable space, not on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | often | below voice part(s) on recto (rarely verso) | |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | ||
partial additional staves | occasionally |
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 | often | ||
fully texted with one text | tenor | sometimes | probably some or all added later | |
untexted | all except tenor | sometimes | ||
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | rarely | probably some or all added later |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | teardrop shape with stem out of notehead for upstem notes |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Later changes | Folios | |
---|---|---|
many verbal texts added later by other hand(s), both underlaid and separately below notation on recto and (much more rarely) verso pages |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Types of script size position | German cursive, some with humanist elements especially in the Latin-texted works |
Level of calligraphy |
fair,
variable |
Colour(s) of text | black red brown incipits of original scribe and voice designations mostly in red, added texts mostly brown to black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text | additional |
Liminary text | Voice designations written out, sometimes as pseudo-initials and continued between staves, sometimes fully between staves, sometimes written out in indentations, sometimes above staves. Mostly in red ink |
Later changes | much of the underlaid text apparently added later |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
painted initials | rarely | p. 9 | calligraphic with decoration, flourished | one-line initial for D | penned initial decorated with coloured wash, floral motiv and abstract flourishing | |
penned initials | sometimes | calligraphic , calligraphic with grotesque heads, flourished, plain initials | one-line initials, modest amount of penflourishing and ornamentation, occasional grotesque heads. From p. 20 onwards occasional monochrome red initials. | |||
initials planned | often | From p. 20 onwards only occasional initials, from p. 30 none at all | ||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
often | decorative final long |