Udine, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Vincenzo Joppi, MS Joppi 165, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 27
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 260 x 188
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Paper label on front cover: 'Msso Pietro Edo Poesie sacre con musica, autografo del 1495.'
Non-musical texts: church accounts, music written on palimpsest
Other devices: Original ink foliation, 1-25 (last two folios not numbered).
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
normally,
vertical boundng line left and right, no text lines |
Ruling pattern |
fairly regular
usually 6 pentagrams, ruled freehand but fairly evenly |
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 |
red-brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | Initials below staves with text | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Italian, Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one or two texts | discantus and tenor | normally | ||
partially texted with one text | all except discantus and tenor | normally |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | red-brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | slender rhomboid noteshapes, sometimes rounded |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signes-de-renvoi | 15v-16r |
Text
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | red-brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
5v, 15v-16r, 16v |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | very few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | voice names above voices or in outer margin; liturgical rubrics above discantus; name of copyist (and composer) "p. hedus", some with date of copying |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | always | calligraphic | below stave in front of text | small initials with modest ornamentation |