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-51vPreparation
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 |