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.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
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. |