Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2442, Altus partbook, all folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + 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 | always | stave height 15 mm, interspace 11.5 mm | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | Text and music indented on staves. | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | Extra space between pieces. | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always |
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 | bassus | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | dark brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
signa congruentiae | 24r, 24v | |
Line fillers | Folios | Note |
occasionally | 63v, 85v | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Reparation: pasted slip of paper with added/corrected music. | 45r, 68v, 69v |
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 |
'Secunda pars',
f. 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-work decoration, many with human faces (ff. 5r, 6v, 7v, 31r, 33r, 39v, 43r, 51v, 60v, 63v, 76v, 78r, 84r, 94r) and highlighted in yellow. | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
rarely | 63v, 85v | decorative final long |