Siena, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K. 1.2, 208-224
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: 17
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 418 x 277
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Early red ink foliation recto top right, fragmentary [see quire structure].
2. Modern black ink foliation recto top right, 208-224
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
top and bottom of vertical bounding lines, none visible for staves |
Ruled grid |
always,
single vertical bounding lines; no text lines |
Ruling pattern |
highly regular
10 pentagrams, apparently ruled freehand, sometimes very slightly uneven, not parallel, slightly varying in distance |
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 |
single | always | Stave 1, c. 2-3 cm. Music and text for lower voices indented over ruled staves, sometimes | |
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 | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | ||
notation extended into margin | sometimes | ||
partial additional staves | rarely | 209r |
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 | normally |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid or rounded rhomboid shape, various (different scribes) |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Level of calligraphy note | variable |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Types of script size position | semicursive (208r-209r); italian cursive (210v-211r); various French cursives (212v-223v) |
Level of calligraphy |
fair,
very variable |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Later changes | text added later in some sections? some remain untexted |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | rarely | |||||
initials planned | normally |