Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 13 (olim 138), All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: iii + 81 + iii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 127 x 102
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: liturgical texts on ff. 1-28v, 48r-81v
Other devices: Original foliation red ink top right, 1-75, 77.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
38v-43rPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | none visible |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line on left and right all across the page, 32 lines between, top line not written on, thus 31 lines of text |
| Ruling pattern |
highly regular
5 pentagrams on grid lines, one line for text in between |
| Staves omitted from grid | never |
| Incomplete staves | never |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| red ink | always | all | |
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| red | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| straightedge | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| none | always | no indented staves, music and text indented over 1 stave to accommodate first initial, not on following pages | |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| none | always | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | always |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | Latin |
|---|---|
| Order of Copying |
text 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 | black |
| Colour of notation folios | all |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | round |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
Text
| Types of script | textura |
| Level of calligraphy |
high,
all |
| Colour(s) of text | black |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | none |
| Abbreviations | none |
| Non underlaid vocal text |
none
none in this section |
| Liminary text |
"S" and "T" above music on all pages; rubric "Cum autem" in bottom margin on fol. 38v,
38v |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | fair |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| painted initials | normally | plain initials | alternating in blue and red | |||
| penned initials | sometimes | littera notabilior | as second letter after initial | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| sometimes | decorated letters | decorative elongation of downstems of some letters | ||||