PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Bologna, Italy, Archivio Musicale di S Petronio, MS A. XXVII (olim R)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Bsp 27

DIAMM Source Key: 1620

Folio(s): All folios

Date: First half of 16th century

Location of origin: Bologna, Italy

Provenance

Copied in Bologna for use at San Petronio; still in its original location

Basis for description: original

Bologna, Italy, Archivio Musicale di S Petronio, MS A. XXVII (olim R), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 50

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 590 x 425

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: fol. 1r: "R"

Index / Table of Contents: none

Colophon: none

Non-musical texts: none

Other devices: Early pagination light brown ink top right, 1-48, none on 49-50.

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Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, text on double line 5-6 mm apart, added after staves only where needed
Ruling pattern highly regular
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
hard point and lead point always bounding lines hard point, text lines lead point
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
brown always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
double rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always No staves indented; music and text sometimes slightly indented over ruled staves for initials.
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
empty ruled staves on grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always
Adhoc adaptation Frequency Folios Note
notation and staves extended into margin occasionally
notation extended into margin occasionally

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Order of Copying music 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
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note teardrop-shaped notation
Monophonic notation present
1v, 6v, 12v, 18v, 23v, 31v,
Chant intonations
Level of calligraphy fair
Line fillers Folios Note
few 7v-8r, 27r, 33r, 34r extended final barlines, extended and ornamented final longae
Later changes Folios
Chant intonation added by later hand 25v
Text
Types of script textura
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions fairly many
Abbreviations fairly many
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text Tacet instruction "Introibimus non fuit signum",
35r

Decoration

Level of Decoration fair
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials always calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads One or two lines at the beginning of every piece/section; mostly in left margin, but partly over ruled staves with notation indented. Cadel-type initials, usually larger at the beginning of pieces, with moderate penflourishing and more rarely grotesque heads.