PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

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

Manuscript: Köln, Germany, Historisches Archiv der Stadt, MS Wallraf (Best. 7010) 75

Manuscript type: non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony

RISM siglum: D-KNa 75

DIAMM Source Key: 1161

Image repositories: Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln

Folio(s): All folios

Date: Early 16th century

Date 1506 on f. 21v

Location of origin: Mechelen, Belgium

Provenance

Collection of prayers, votive texts, rules of the Franciscan order, and theological tracts, copied at the Franciscan monastery in Mechelen, Belgium.

Basis for description: microfilm

Köln, Germany, Historisches Archiv der Stadt, MS Wallraf (Best. 7010) 75, All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + 75

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 136 x 100

Other devices: 1. original foliation for last gathering (= ff. 52-75)
2. Modern pencil foliation top right 1-75

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

39r-v, 46v-51v

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking none visible
Ruled grid never
Ruling pattern highly irregular
hand-drawn tetragrams and pentagrams
Staves omitted from grid n/a
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
n/a always
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
black always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
straightedge normally
freehand sometimes
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
none always
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
provided, in dedicated space normally musical notation embedded in text manuscript

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Latin
Order of Copying music first
sometimes
Order of Copying unclear
sometimes
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
fully texted with two texts discantus occasionally 39r
untexted tenor occasionally 39r-v
fully texted with two or more texts all voice parts sometimes
fully texted with one text all voice parts sometimes
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural, chant (Gothic)
Monophonic notation present
50r,
chant notation used polyphonically
Level of calligraphy fair
Text
Types of script cursive (German)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts yes
two or three strophes under music in several songs
Text repetitions none
Abbreviations many
Non underlaid vocal text additional

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor
Decoration initial type Frequency Folios Initial type(s) Size position Description Discrepancies
penned initials normally littera notabilior small litterae notabiliores as initials below stave with rest of text