PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Germ. 8° 280

Manuscript type: poetry collection with some notated music

RISM siglum: D-B Germ. 8° 280

DIAMM Source Key: 1326

Image repositories: Digitale Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Date: c. 1500

With a few additions after 1524

Location of origin: Emmerich, Germany ; Köln, Germany

Provenance

Since 1863 owned by the Prussian State Library in Berlin

Artists/Scribes

Person: Anonymous, Anonymous
Person type: scribe
Note: Written by a number of different scribes

Basis for description: original

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-v

Preparation

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
8r-9v

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