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. XXXI (olim D)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Bsp 31

DIAMM Source Key: 234

Folio(s): All folios

Date: 1512-1527

Tirro 1980

Location of origin: Bologna, Italy

Provenance

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

Artists/Scribes

Person: Spataro, Giovanni
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Bologna, Italy
Note: <p>Copied mostly by Giovanni Spataro (<a href="/bibliography/#entry994" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Tirro, Frank, &lsquo;La Stesura del Testo nei Manoscritti di Giovanni Spataro&rsquo;, Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 15 (1980), 31&ndash;70"><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Tirro 1980</a>). Second scribe (f. 28v) also wrote portions of I-Bsp 29 (text), I-Bsp 45, and I-Bsp 46; third scribe (ff. 130v-131r and ff. 138v-139r) also wrote ff. llr-14r of I-Bsp 46; fourth scribe wrote ff. 127v-130v.</p>

Basis for description: original

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

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + 71 + i

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 553 x 385

Quire structure: Text version

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

Index / Table of Contents: none

Colophon: none

Non-musical texts: none

Other devices: Early foliation light brown ink top right, 1-28, 108-150, indicating substantial losses.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

1-28, 108-138, 144-150

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, text on single line throughout
Ruling pattern highly regular
13 pentagrams, two different rastra, ruled freehand, sometimes slightly uneven, not parallel, varying in distance
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
hard point and lead point always all bounding lines lead point, text lines hard point
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
black always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always
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
partial additional staves rarely 115v

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 or rhomboid
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
none
Line fillers Folios Note
none
Text
Types of script antiqua
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions fairly few
Abbreviations fairly few
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text 110v: 'Absalon fili mi' 119v: 'A voce pare' 122v-123r: 'Tacet', 'Duo' 125v: Crucifixus tacet 127v, 128v, 129v: Canon 139v: 'Josquin',
110v, 119v, 122v-123r, 127v, 128v, 129v, 139v

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor
139-143

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, text on single line, present almost throughout
Ruling pattern highly regular
13-14 pentagrams, ruled freehand, sometimes slightly uneven, not parallel, varying in distance
Staves omitted from grid never
Incomplete staves never
Medium and colour of grid Frequency Folios Note
hard point and lead point always all bounding lines lead point, text lines hard point
Colour of staves Frequency Folios Note
black always
Ruling medium Frequency Folios Note
single rastrum always
Indentation for initials Frequency Folios Note
none always
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 often

Copying of text and music

Language(s)
Order of Copying music first
always,
all
Music
Colour(s) of notation black
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note rhomboid shape
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Non verbal performance instructions Folios Note
none
Line fillers Folios Note
none
Text
Types of script antiqua
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions fairly few
Abbreviations fairly few
Non underlaid vocal text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor