PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources

Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530

Manuscript: Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS A 71 (olim 159)

Manuscript type: music treatise(s) containing polyphony

RISM siglum: I-Bc A71

DIAMM Source Key: 1395

Image repositories: Gaspari Online

Folio(s): All folios

Date: c. 1510-20

c. 1510-5 (O'Donoghue 1972); c. 1515-20 (Blackburn 1981a).

Location of origin: Bologna, Italy ; Ferrara, Italy

Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS A 71 (olim 159), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: iii + v + 152 + vi + iii

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 214 x 148

Quire structure: Text version

Title page / Frontispiece: f. iii r: Introductory text by Padre Martini.
p. 1: Heading 'Franchini Gafori' etc.

Index / Table of Contents: f. vi v: Table of contents for entire volume (written by Martini)
pp. 130-131: Tabula for Gaffurius, Theoricum opus

Colophon: p. 129: 'Franchini gafori' etc., colophon from the 1480 print

Non-musical texts: all text

Other devices: Pagination by Martini, brown ink top corners, 1-134, 134[bis]-303;
Modern pagination pencil top corners, Front flyleaves I-VI, back flyleaves 304-314;
Quire signatures (always bottom right on rectos of the first half of the quire): i-iv: A.i-A.v to D.i-D.vi; v: 1.a-1e; vi: 1.a-1.e; vii-x: a.1-e.1 to a.4-d.4; xi: a.-a.....; xiv: a.7-d.7 (identical to quires vii-x)

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

pp. 207-221

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	never
Ruled grid	always
Ruling pattern	fairly regular single line on left and right and single line at the top. Text on single line added after staves
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always	all
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
black	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
single	sometimes		Top stave on some pages idented very slightly; elsewhere much slight indented for initial.
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	occasionally	212, 215, 218
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
no separate text	always
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
made for complete additional staves	occasionally	207, 209
notation and staves extended into margin	sometimes	208, 209, 210, 216
partial additional staves	rarely	214

Copying of text and music

Language(s)
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	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rhomboid-shaped notation, somewhat rounded
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	fair

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
pointers	209-214, 218

Text

Types of script	cursive
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	black
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	fairly many
Abbreviations	very many
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	Voice designations, always Rubrics, once (p. 213) Composer name, once (p. 212)

Decoration

Level of Decoration	poor

pp. 232-235

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, single line left and right
Ruling pattern	highly regular
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
black	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
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)
Order of Copying	n/a always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
untexted	all voice parts	always

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	teardrop-shaped notation
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	fair

pp. 246-251, 260-265

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	sometimes, single line on left and right
Ruling pattern	fairly regular
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
hard point	always
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
black	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
provided, in dedicated space	often	241-248

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Latin
Order of Copying	n/a always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
untexted	all voice parts	often
provided with single incipit	all voice parts	sometimes

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rounded rhomboid shape
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	fair

pp. 252-259

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, single line on left and right
Ruling pattern	highly regular
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	sometimes		first stave sometimes very slightly indented
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

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	French, Latin
Order of Copying	n/a always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
provided with single incipit	all voice parts	often
untexted	all voice parts	sometimes

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Monophonic notation	present 256
Level of calligraphy	fair

pp. 284-291, 296-303

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, single line on left and right
Ruling pattern	highly regular
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
none	always
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
not in dedicated space	occasionally	291, 301-303
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
partial additional staves	rarely	297

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios	Note
untexted	all voice parts	sometimes
provided with single incipit	all voice parts	sometimes
fully texted with one text	all voice parts	sometimes

Music

Colour(s) of notation	black
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	teardrop shaped notation
Monophonic notation	absent
Level of calligraphy	fair

Text

Types of script	cursive
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	black
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	none
Abbreviations	some
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	Voice designations, regularly