PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Udine, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale Vincenzo Joppi, MS Joppi 165

Manuscript type: non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony

RISM siglum: I-UDc 165

DIAMM Source Key: 222

Image repositories: DIAMM

Folio(s): All folios

Date: 1494-1501

dates 1494, 1495, 1501 in music added by Hedus; accounts continue into early 17th century.

Location of origin: Pordenone, Italy

Provenance

Copied in Pordenone, for use by Brotherhood of S. Maria de' Battuti. Later owned by Vincenzo Joppi, librarian of Biblioteca Comunale, Udine; passed to Biblioteca Comunale after Joppi's death.

Artists/Scribes

Person: Hedus, Petrus
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Pordenone, Italy
Note: Original material on ff. 2v-6r, 7v-11r, 15v-19r, and 22v later erased and replaced with music, copied by Petrus Hedus (1427-1504), chaplain of the Brotherhood of S. Maria de' Battuti in Pordenone; Hedus also wrote F-Pn it. 2104 (<a href="/bibliography/#entry605" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Jeppesen, Knud: Die Mehrstimmige Italienische Laude um 1500 (Leipzig and Copenhagen, 1935) "><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Jeppesen 1935</a>).

Basis for description: high-quality image

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 folios

Preparation

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