PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Tarazona, Spain, Archivo Capitular de la Catedral, MS 17

Manuscript type: partbooks (incomplete set)

RISM siglum: E-TZ 17

DIAMM Source Key: 2547

Folio(s): Altus

Date: First half of 16th century

c. 1550 (Urchuegúia 2010, DIAMM); First half of 16th century (Census-Catalogue).

Location of origin: Tarazona, Spain

Provenance

1. Perhaps made for Tarazona Cathedral. 2. Entry in cathedral inventory, 1591: "Pastrana / Ay mas seis cuadernos con cubiertas de papel con una / missa de a cinco y un motete a seis."

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe
Note: A single scribe copied all three extant partbooks (<a href="/bibliography/#entry960" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, eds Charles Hamm and Herbert Kellman, 5 vols, Renaissance Manuscript Studies 1 (Neuhausen/Stuttgart 1979-1988)"><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Census-Catalogue</a>).

Bibliography

Westrup 1954, IV, 397; Stevenson 1961, 322; Sevillano 1961, 166; Census-Catalogue 1979-88, III, 198f; Calahorra 1992, no. 34. 

Basis for description: original

Tarazona, Spain, Archivo Capitular de la Catedral, MS 17, Altus

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 13

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 142 x 212

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: "Pastrana" (different hand)
"Altus"

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking always,
lower margins for justification lines
Ruled grid always
Ruling pattern highly regular
justification lines only
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
dark brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
single often The stave and notation is indented on each verso. Where an initial is needed on a recto (ff. 1r, 6r, 10r, 12r), the notation is indented on the stave.
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
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation and staves extended into margin occasionally 3r, 4r-5r, 6v
staveline added occasionally 2v, 4v, 6v, 7v, 11r

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin, Spanish
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
partially texted with one text altus rarely 1r-2r
fully texted with one text altus normally 2v-11r, 12r-13r
fully texted with one or two texts altus rarely 11v
Music
Colour(s) of notation dark brown
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
repeat signs 11v
signa congruentiae 8v, 9v, 11v-12r
Text
Types of script cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy high
Colour(s) of text dark brown
Multiple texts yes
11v
Text repetitions fairly many
Often indicated by 'ij'
Abbreviations fairly few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text 'duo' 3v,
3v
Later changes Between the two underlaid words 'Kyrie eleyson' on f. 1r, a later hand added 'eleison Kyrie eleison Kyrie',
1r

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials always 1r-v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v-6v, 7v, 8v, 9v-10v, 11v-12v calligraphic One stave high at start of each movement/song; staves and notation indented on versos, notation only indented on rectos.