Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2442, Tenor partbook, all folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + IV + 96 + IV + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 140 x 200
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom left, 1-100 (counting rear flyleaves)
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
single vertical bounding lines; no text lines |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | always | Justification lines only. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double rastrum | normally | stave height 15 mm, interspace 11.5 mm | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | Space between pieces. | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation extended into margin | rarely | 74r |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | French |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one or two texts | tenor | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shaped |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | 1v | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
few | 2r, 4r, 4v 96r |
Text
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
29r, 29v |
Text repetitions | very many |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text |
'Canon Faulte clargent per nature / faulte clargent per bemol' (f. 1r).
'Secunda pars' (f. 54v).,
1r, 54v |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | high |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | always | calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads | Beginning of pieces. | Calligraphic initials with pen-flourished decoration, some with human heads (ff. 36r, 45r, 52v, 84r), often highlighted in yellow. | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
rarely | 2r, 4r, 4v 96r | decorative final long |