Verona, Italy, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS DCCLVIII, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: ii + 119 + ii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 450 x 340
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Fol 1v: Heraldic device of the Maffei family on single parchment leaf. Could have been added later
Other devices: 1. Modern library foliation 1-119, pencil top right
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, left line ruled through on fol. 88-103, on remaining folios interrupted for indentations which have their own lines; text line added on ff. 30v-36r |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
all, 11 pentagrams, ruled freehand, sometimes slightly uneven, not parallel, varying in distance |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
black ink | always | all | pencil for added text lines |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double and single rastra | always | double rastrum 15/15 mm, distance 13.5 mm; bottom stave single rastrum 15 mm | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double | always | staves 1-2 and 7-8 always indented (except f. 16r (4 staves)), c. 55 mm | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staves not ruled on grid | often | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | rarely | additional hymn strophes | |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation extended into margin | sometimes | ||
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Latin |
---|---|
Higlighting | none |
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 |
Colour of notation folios | all |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation folios | all |
Type of notation note | even rhomboid shape, slightly falling off to the right, thick lines and stems |
Monophonic notation |
present
Intonations, occasionally, square notation as black breves |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Level of calligraphy note | medium (low in additions) |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
occasionally | chains of custodes where residuum continues on next opening | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Substantial number of later additions on preruled pages, filling out blank openings between quires or space leftover at the end of a quire. Music hand of all additions same as main hand (if written with less care, thinner and more irregular stroke), but different text hands, some in fact untexted. No initials on these pages, indentation left blank, capital initial letters in stave with sung text, except 78v-80r where the capitals are in the indentation space | 30v-47r, 62-64r, 78v-80r, 86v-88r |
Text
Types of script | textura |
Types of script note | textura (62v-64r, 78v-80r, 86v-88r humanist cursive) |
Level of calligraphy |
fair,
medium, quite variable in size (62v etc. low) |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions |
none
none in main corpus, rare in additions |
Abbreviations | many |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
extra strophes in hymn section 48v-62r, between D and T, sometimes additionally below T |
Liminary text | No composer ascriptions, voice designations in initials. Occasional Tacet inscriptions, reduced voice designations etc., large script (by main text scribe) between or below voices |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 16r | |||||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | normally | |||||
penned initials | occasionally | where no piainted initial | ||||
initials planned | occasionally | none in main corpus, all in additions | ||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
rarely | signes-de-renvoi |