Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Germ. 8° 280, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 180
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 96 x 72
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: fol. 1r: 'Dit boek hoert toe anna van collen der et fynt eer et verloeren w(ort) der serft ouc wall eer hey kranck wort'
Index / Table of Contents: none
Non-musical texts: mostly poems without musical notation
Other devices: 1. Modern library foliation (19th century?), black ink bottom right: 1-4, 4a-39, 41-154, 156-182.
2. Modern library foliation (20th/21st century), pencil top right, 1-180.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
14r-vPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid | never |
Ruling pattern |
n/a
trigrams, tetragrams or pentagrams, stavelines drawn without a ruler, very uneven |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
n/a | never | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
freehand | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | never | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | never | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | always | 14r | 14r begins after 3 lines of text (end of previous song) |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | German, Latin |
---|---|
Higlighting | Initial letters of stanzas under music highlighted in red |
Order of Copying |
text first
always, all |
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 | German hufnagel |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | poor |
Level of calligraphy folios | all |
Text
Types of script | cursive (German) |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
9v |
Liminary text | none |
Later changes | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
never | ||||||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | normally | plain initials | red monochrome initials in left margin at beginninng of voice parts |
Preparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid | never |
Ruling pattern | n/a |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
n/a | never | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
freehand | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | never | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | never | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
provided, in dedicated space | always | 9v | 9v staves closer together to make room for first two lines of following stanzas of same song |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | German, Latin |
---|---|
Higlighting | Initial letters of stanzas under music highlighted in red |
Order of Copying |
text 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 |
Type(s) of notation | German hufnagel |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | poor |
Level of calligraphy note | low |
Text
Types of script | cursive (German) |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | some |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
9v, additional stanzas starting at bottom fol. 9v |
Liminary text | none |
Later changes | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
never | ||||||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
painted initials | never | plain initials | red monochrome initials in left margin at beginninng of voice parts |