Tarazona, Spain, Archivo Capitular de la Catedral, MS 2-3, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + 298 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 545 x 390
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Pasted inside back cover, bookplate from 2002 (restoration): 'Magnum hoc opus praestantium regum nostrorum Elisabeth a Castilla et Ferdinandi ab Aragonia capellae musicae, eximia liturgicae poliphonicae musicae opera, a preclaris magistris composita, continens, denuo reparatum, pristina magnificentia ipsius recuperata, anno a nativitate domini bis millesimo secundo, excmi. Turiasonensis ecclesiae canonicorum capituli, Caesaraugustanae diputationis et institutionis 'Fernando el Catolico' sumptibus eiusdemque sectionis musicae antiquae intento labore, et sororum cisterciensium a monasterio sanctae luciae in civitate caesaraugustana cura diligentissima et accuratissimo nisu refectum fuit. Resonet in aeternum gloria deo.'
Index / Table of Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Table of contents
Other devices: 1. Original foliation starts on f. 4: i-lvii (ff. 4-59), lxii-ccxcix (ff. 60-297).
2. Separate foliation for MS 3, 1-119 (now ff. 66-294).
Watermark of eagle.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
usually visible in upper margins for bounding lines (lower margins have deteriorated in many places) |
| Ruled grid | always |
| Ruling pattern |
highly regular
vertical bounding lines only |
| 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 |
| dark brown | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single | normally | Staves 1 and 7 normally indented, although sometimes stave lines have been filled in. ff. 4v-5r, 8r: first stave only indented. f. 5v: staves 1 and 8 indented (13 stave page). | |
| double | often | Notation is often indented on two staves, particularly at the start of songs, even though only one stave is indented. | |
| 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 |
| partial additional staves | rarely | 98r | |
| notation extended into margin | rarely | ||
| notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | ||
| staveline added | occasionally | ||
| Indentation for initials filled in | sometimes |
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 | always |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black dark brown |
| Type(s) of notation | chant (square), void mensural |
| Monophonic notation |
present
65v, 66v, 67v, 68v, 69v, 220v, 230v 233v, 235v |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| end symbol | several closely spaced lines | |
| signes-de-renvoi | several forms: hand, finger, hand holding branch, pairs of matching symbols, cross-hatched bar... | |
| signa congruentiae | occasionally | |
| Later changes | Folios | |
| Lower part of folio torn, now reattached, but inserted is a re-copied version of the lowest stave, presumable from when the lowest stave had been detached. | 265r |
Text
| Types of script | textura |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red dark brown red only used in table of contents (1r-3r) |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | fairly few |
| Abbreviations | fairly few |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text | Liturgical assignment, composer attribution, instructions on hymn choice (in Spanish, f. 24r), 'tacet', 'ut supra', 'duo', 'canon', canon instructions. Voice designations very rare. |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | fair |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads | At the start of each voice part (indented), two or sometimes one stave tall | Some drawn in similar ink to text/notation, others not. With a yellow wash ff. 4v-23r only. | occasionally one voice part has a missing initial, e.g. ff. 88r, 123v | |
| initials planned | occasionally | one stave indented, cue letter often visible | often (but not always) occur when notation is not indented on second stave | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| normally | littera notabilior | second letter of underlaid text | larger slightly decorative letter drawn by text scribe yellow wash 4v-23r | |||