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 Q 18 (olim 143)

Manuscript type: choirbook

RISM siglum: I-Bc 18

DIAMM Source Key: 1389

Image repositories: Gaspari Online

Folio(s): All folios

Date: Early 16th century

c. 1502-6 (Weiss 1985).

Location of origin: Bologna, Italy

Provenance

Later owned by Padre Martini

Artists/Scribes

Person: Spataro, Giovanni
Person type: scribe
Location of origin: Bologna, Italy
Note: <p>Copied by two main scribes, one of them Giovanni Spataro (ff. 65-93) (Sergio Paganelli)<span>; ff. 18v-19 copied by different hand (<a href="/bibliography/#entry996" data-tooltip="" class="has-tip tip-top reference" data-placement="top" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="" title="Weiss, Susan F., 'The Manuscript Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Codex Q 18 (olim 143): A Bolognese Instrumental Collection of the Early Cinquecento' (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1985)"><i class="fa fa-book"></i>Weiss 1985</a>).</span></p>

Basis for description: original

Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 18 (olim 143), All folios

Physical description

Material: paper

Number of leaves: i + i + 90 + i

Format: oblong

Page dimensions: 168 x 237-240

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: f ir: 'Anonimi son gli autori de' componimenti compressi in questo MS.' (18th/19th century?)

Other devices: Early (original?) foliation in red ink top right, 1-93 (10, 47 and 56 missing).

Page details (zoom):

Preparation and Copying

1-19r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all
Staves omitted from grid n/a
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 no indented staves, no indent over staves to accommodate initials
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
left between voice parts as part of grid always
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
provided, in dedicated space always staves 3-4 on every page

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Italian
Higlighting none
Order of Copying music first
always,
all
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
untexted all voice parts sometimes
untexted all except discantus sometimes
partially texted with one text discantus occasionally
provided with single incipit discantus occasionally
fully texted with one text discantus rarely
provided with single incipit all except discantus occasionally
Music
Colour(s) of notation dark brown
Colour of notation folios all
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation folios all
Type of notation note even rhomboid shape with straight, tapered stems
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy fair
Later changes Folios
f. 1r: addition of page of tablature, with hand-drawn sixth staveline, over 5 staves. Bottom stave and below text/music area notation exercises
Text
Types of script cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text reddish brown
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions none
Abbreviations none
Non underlaid vocal text additional
poems copied in space left on staves 3-4, sometimes also in space left after end of music in stave 2 on verso. Depending on amount of text, either only on verso or also on recto
Liminary text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor
19v-64r

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all
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 no indented staves, no indent over staves to accommodate initials; f. 38r indented for canonic inscription
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
left between voice parts as part of grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always

Copying of text and music

Language(s) French, Italian, Latin, Spanish
Order of Copying music first
always
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
untexted all except discantus always
provided with single incipit discantus always
Music
Colour(s) of notation dark brown
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note squat rhomboid shape with stems leaning counterclockwise somewhat
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy high
Text
Types of script cursive (humanistic)
Level of calligraphy fair
Colour(s) of text reddish brown
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions none
Abbreviations none
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration very poor
64v-93v

Preparation

Disposition of Voice Parts Key

Pricking never
Ruled grid always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text
Ruling pattern highly regular
all
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 no indented staves, no indent over staves to accommodate initials
Extra space between voice parts Frequency Folios Note
left between voice parts as part of grid often
Space provided for separate text Frequency Folios Note
no separate text always

Copying of text and music

Language(s) Flemish, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish
Order of Copying music first
always,
all
Presence/absence of text Voice part Frequency Folios Note
provided with single incipit all voice parts always
Music
Colour(s) of notation dark brown
Type(s) of notation void mensural
Type of notation note even round shape with stems leaning counterclockwise slightly
Monophonic notation absent
Level of calligraphy high
Text
Types of script cursive (italic)
Level of calligraphy poor
Colour(s) of text black
Multiple texts no
Text repetitions none
Abbreviations none
Non underlaid vocal text none
Liminary text none

Decoration

Level of Decoration n/a