PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Uppsala, Sweden, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76c

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: S-Uu 76c

DIAMM Source Key: 2613

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1530

C. 1530? (Bernstein 1982), with lute tablature additions in second half of 16th century.

Location of origin: France

Provenance

Copied in France (Bernstein 1982).

Basis for description: original

Uppsala, Sweden, Universitetsbiblioteket, MS Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76c, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 158

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 290 x 205

Quire structure: Text version

Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom right, 1-157, 58 counted twice

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid never,
vertical fold in inner margin to create bounding line, none in outer margin
Ruling pattern fairly regular
11 pentagrams, ruled freehand, sometimes uneven, not parallel, slightly varying in distance
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
fold always
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always none, sometimes music and text indented over ruled stave, but not used for initials
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid always
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation and staves extended into margin rarely
made for complete additional staves rarely