Uppsala, Sweden, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76a, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + 81 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 215 x 145
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: poems on bottom of 66r, 66v, bottom of 77v-78r and on 79r-81v; pentrials and maxims on 78v and front and rear endpapers
Other devices: 1. 19th-century (?) ink foliation recto top right, usually only every 5 folios. 2. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom right, 1-77 (78-81 taken up by ink foliation)
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
always,
for vertical bounding lines and for every stave, aligned with top line of stave |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text |
| Ruling pattern |
highly regular
7 pentagrams, ruled absolutely regularly throughout. 79-81 unruled |
| Staves omitted from grid | never |
| Incomplete staves | never |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| reddish brown ink | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| light brown | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| none | always | sometimes music and text indented over ruled stave to accommodate initial (scribe 2) | |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| empty ruled staves on grid | often | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| provided, in dedicated space | sometimes | in three-voice compositions, on blank staves underneath the D. | |
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| partial additional staves | occasionally | 3r, 13r, 58v-66r | |
| made for complete additional staves | occasionally | 58v-66r |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | French, Latin |
|---|---|
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| untexted | all except discantus | often | 1v-31r | |
| provided with single incipit | all except discantus | sometimes | 1v-31r | |
| fully texted with one text | discantus | often | 1v-31r | |
| fully texted with one text | all voice parts | often | 31v-37r, 43v-66r, 68v-73r | |
| provided with single incipit | discantus | rarely | ||
| untexted | discantus | rarely |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | variable, from rhomboid to teardrop. Probaby two main scribes and three adding further material later on (Brown 1983): 1: ff. 4v-31r, 37v-43r, 68v-73r, 78r; 2: ff. 31v-37r, 43v-57r, 67v-68r, 73v-77r; 3: ff. 1v-3r; 4: ff. 58v-66r; 5: ff. 57v-58r, top of f. 58r, f. 77v. |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signes-de-renvoi | occasionally, some quite elaborate | |
| Later changes | Folios | |
| material added by later copyists on ff. 1v-3r, 58v-66r, 57v-58r, 58v, and 77v. |
Text
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Colour(s) of text | brown |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | some |
| Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
additional strophes |
| Liminary text | canonic inscription, f. 14r; voice designations, sometimes, some upside down; Duo or tacet inscriptions, rarely |
| Later changes | some text underlaid later apparently by different hand(s) |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very poor |