Manuscript: St Gall, Switzerland, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 464

Manuscript type: partbooks (incomplete set)

RISM siglum: CH-SGs 464

DIAMM Source Key: 961

Image repositories: E-codices

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1510-1520, with additions c. 1540

Loach 1969

Location of origin: Switzerland

Provenance

1. Earliest layers possibly copied in Basel. 2. Partbooks acquired c. 1540 by Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus (inscription on B f. [ii]: "Aegidius Scudus Glareanus Helvetius possessor"). 3. Tschudi added last two pieces of music, some analytical material, and several tables of modes based on theoretical concepts of Heinrich Glareanus, with whom Tschudi had studied in Basel. 4. Manuscript belonged to Tschudi family until 1767, then sold by Baron Leodegar Tschudi to Benedictine monastery at Saint Gall.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Tschudi, Aegidius
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Glarus, Switzerland
Note: Music copied by several scribes, one of whom Aegidius Tschudi. According to <a href="/bibliography/#entry677" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Loach, Donald Glenn, ‘Aegidius Tschudi's Songbook (St. Gall MS 463): A Humanistic Document from the Circle of Heinrich Glarean’ (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1969) "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Loach 1969</a>, six scribes and only additions by Tschudi; according to Scarpatetti 2008, most if not all of the copying done by Tschudi himself.

St Gall, Switzerland, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 464, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: ii + 25 + ii

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 145 x 213

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: iir: title page with 'Bassus' and owner's inscription; 13r: title page 'DISCANTVS Sex vocum' with owner's inscription

Index / Table of Contents: iir: table of contents in top left corner (added later); 13v: full table of contents in Tschudi's hand

Other devices: 1. Original ink foliation top right by Tschudi, separate for both partbooks (2-6 and 1-11), completed by modern pencil foliation.
2. Modern pencil foliation top right below original foliation, 1-25.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, single line to left and right, no lines for text
Ruling pattern	fairly regular 5 pentagrams, ruled freehand, mostly quite even
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always		Initials in left margin
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	sometimes
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
no separate text	always

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	French, Italian, Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
fully texted with one text	discantus and bassus	often
provided with single incipit	discantus and bassus	sometimes

Music

Colour(s) of notation	brown
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	variable
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	fair
Level of calligraphy note	very variable

Text 1

Types of script	cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy	fair, variable, often quite poor
Colour(s) of text	brown
Multiple texts	no
Liminary text	Composer ascriptions, normally
Later changes	additions on last pages, originally left blank: theoretical tables and exercises etc.

Text 2

Types of script	display script
Types of script size position	for voice names and rubrics
Types of script folios	1-6, 14-20
Level of calligraphy	high
Colour(s) of text	red brown blue

Decoration

Level of Decoration	fair

Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
penned initials	often	1-6, 14-20	calligraphic , flourished		Alternating red and blue initials

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