Manuscript: Kraków, Poland, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Berlin MS Mus. 40098 (olim Z 98 and Z 8037)

Manuscript type: partbooks (complete set)

RISM siglum: PL-Kj Berlin 40098

DIAMM Source Key: 1569

Image repositories: Jagiellonian Digital Library

Folio(s): Contratenor Partbook, all folios

Date: c. 1477-82

Gancarczyk 2014

Location of origin: Zagan, Silesia

Provenance

Probably compiled by abbot Martin Rinkenberg for the monastery of the Canons Regular in Żagań (Ger. Sagan) in Silesia, not in Glogau in Silesia as has long been assumed (and what gave the source its nickname 'Glogauer Liederbuch'). Later in the possession of the Latin School at the collegiate church of Glogau as witnessed by the inscription 'Catalogo Ecclesiae Colleg. Glogoviae Maj. inscribtus' from the middle of the 16th century. Gancarczyk 2009. Probably came into the possession of the Prussian State Library in the 19th century. In 1945, it was moved with many other precious holdings to Grüssau Abbey in Silesia to protect it from the Battle of Berlin; after the end of the War, it was moved to the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków.

Kraków, Poland, Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Berlin MS Mus. 40098 (olim Z 98 and Z 8037), Contratenor Partbook, all folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: 175

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 153 x 215

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: One index (ff. 3r-6r), alphabetical with pieces in order of appearance in the book within each letter.

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

All folios

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking	none visible
Ruled grid	always, usually double vertical bounding line on the left (with clefs between the two lines), single line on the right; 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
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always
Indentation for initials	Frequency	Folios	Note
none	always		Music indented over ruled staves to make room for initials
Extra space between voice parts	Frequency	Folios	Note
empty ruled staves on grid	occasionally
Space provided for separate text	Frequency	Folios	Note
not in dedicated space	occasionally
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
made for complete additional staves	rarely
partial additional staves	rarely
notation and staves extended into margin	occasionally

Copying of text and music

Language(s)	Czech, French, German, Latin
Order of Copying	music first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency
fully texted with one text	contratenor	sometimes
provided with single incipit	contratenor	often
partially texted with one or two texts	contratenor	often
untexted	contratenor	sometimes

Music

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

Text

Types of script	cursive (German)
Level of calligraphy	fair
Colour(s) of text	black connecting lines in red ink
Multiple texts	yes occasionally multiple underlaid strophes
Text repetitions	few
Abbreviations	some
Non underlaid vocal text	additional occasional additional strophes of text in empty space next to or below the notation
Liminary text	Titles of pieces, normally, above text block, more rarely beside or below it

Decoration

Level of Decoration	fair

Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
penned initials	always		plain initials	at the beginning of pieces, over ruled staves with music and text indented	Ornate capitals in red, blue and black

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