Casale Monferrato, Italy, Archivio Capitolare, Fondo Musicale 2 (olim L(B)), All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: ii + 70 + ii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 473 x 323
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: modern library foliation pencil top right, C1 - C107.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
all, 11 pentagrams, very parallel and even |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point or lead point | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double | always | staves 1-2 and 7-8, c. 45-60 mm | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | never | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
Indentation for initials filled in | sometimes | ||
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | notation sometimes extended into right margin to finish a line or for other space reasons, rarely on extended staves | |
partial additional staves | occasionally |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | slender and strongly pointed rhomboid shape, slightly leaning to the right. Different hands from f. 54v to end. |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
few | many extended final notes, but not obviously functioning as line-fillers | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Some additions on blank pages left over from original production at the end, some openings even by different scribes (see 53v-55r) |
Text
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Types of script note | some textura in additions from f. 54 onwards |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
rarely |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Composer ascriptions, regularly. Voice designations, rarely. Residuum indications, occasionally. Canon instructions, rarely. |
Later changes | From 54v additions by different scribes (albeit starting in the middle of a piece). |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with grotesque heads, flourished | two-stave initials in indentations for all voices | cadel-type initials, some with grotespue heads, some with very modest penflourishing. From f. 54 onwards simple initials (where present at all), often not in indentations but with text below staves. | ||
initials planned | occasionally | after f. 53v | ||||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
occasionally | decorative final long |