Zaragoza, Spain, Iglesia Metropolitana de la Virgen del Pilar, Archivo Musical, Armario C-3, MS 17, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 20 [no endleaves]

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 431 x 297

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: Index in fol. 1r. (Census: Original index on f. 1 lists pieces in order of appearance.)

Other devices: Original ink foliation, 1-20.

Page details (zoom):

ff. 1-16

Pricking	always, Visible in the inner and outer margins (where not cropped) for each text line.
Ruled grid	always
Ruling pattern	highly regular justification lines and each text line
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	rarely, 16v, Final stave (on blank ruled page) finishes slightly early: perhaps planned as an indent upside down?

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
black	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always		23mm tall
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
single	often	1r, 7r-16r
none	often	1v-6v, 16v
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	normally
none	occasionally
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
no separate text	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
notation extended into margin	sometimes		only very slightly, by part of a note
staves extended into margin	rarely	8v-9r	Stavelines extended across inner margin to indicate the tenor 1 voice which spans both pages.
notation and staves extended into margin	occasionally	6v-7r, 9r, 11v-12r

Language(s)	Latin
Order of Copying	music first normally

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
fully texted with one text	all voice parts	normally	1v-16r
untexted	all voice parts	rarely	10v-11r

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
coronae		present
end symbol		various forms: elongated long, triple bar line, long forming final barline...
signes-de-renvoi	8v-9r	pointing hand and staves extended across inner margin
Line fillers	Folios	Note
few	3v-4r	custodies repeated until line end
Later changes	Folios
notation at the end of the altus erased, same music found at the start of the altus overleaf	4r
erasure and correction on the final stave	10v

Types of script	humanistic
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	black
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	fairly many indicated by ij or %
Abbreviations	very few
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	'Response de defunctos' f. 8v 'A6' f. 10v (perhaps a misunderstanding: this opening has two songs for four voices on. The first is untexted; it is possible that the scribe who wrote 'A6' thought that together the two songs formed one song for 6 voices.) , 8v, 10v

Level of Decoration	n/a

Decoration miniature frequency		Folios		Size position	Description	Discrepancies
never
Decoration border frequency	Border type	Folios	Size	Position	Description	Discrepancies
never	None		None
Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
initials planned	never
Other decoration frequency		Folios	Other decoration type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
never

ff. 17-20