Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 19, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: i + vi + 202 + ii
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 293 x 212
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Emblem with inscription 'D P' and a silhouette of a stag (see [[Lowinsky 1968]] and [[Heyink 1994]])
Index / Table of Contents: ff. [4]v-[6]r: alphabetical index, not including later additions (by main scribe)
Other devices: Original foliation (by main scribe) brown ink top right, 1-202
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | never |
| Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text |
| Ruling pattern |
highly regular
all, very even and parallel, some variance in distance between staves |
| 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 |
| light brown | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| double rastrum | always | double rastrum 12.5/13.5 mm, distance 13 mm | |
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| none | always | no indented staves, music sometimes indented over 1 stave to accommodate initials or voice designations, variously | |
| 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 | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| notation and staves extended into margin | occasionally | ||
| made for complete additional staves | rarely | 39v-40r, 196v-197r |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | French, Latin |
|---|---|
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fully texted with one text | all voice parts | normally | ||
| provided with single incipit | all voice parts | occasionally |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | teardrop shape, slightly dented on the right, straight and relatively short stems |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| signes-de-renvoi | rarely | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| occasionally | tapered lines after final barline | |
| Later changes | Folios | |
| ff. [3]v-[4]r, 203r-v: Additions on hand-drawn staves, very irregular, 9+9 and 10+8 pentagrams. Notation (also on f. 202v) basically the same, but sloppier, more irregular |
Text
| Types of script | cursive (italic) |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Colour(s) of text | black |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | fairly many |
| Abbreviations | fairly many |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text | Composer ascriptions throughout on top verso where pieces begin, same hand as text incipits. Occasional canon instructions, 'residuum' notes, also same hand. Tacet instructions, some fanciful. |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | poor |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 23v | pasted in | 'I' initial with male head, very finely executed, with 3-line border, similar in style to f. 32v | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| rarely | None | 32v | partial borders: one-sided | outer margin | pasted in; 3 lines, with small "S" in middle (for "Sufficiebat"), similar style to f. 22v | |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | rarely | 22v | decorated | pasted in | 'S', one line, floral motives in red and green, filled with blue on gold background | |
| penned initials | always | calligraphic , plain initials | simple capital letters, sometimes slightly embellished, either in indent left for larger initial or directly before verbal text below the stave | |||
| initials planned | always | The larger initials which were apparently planned (especially in the first sections of the book) were never executed. It is doubtful that it was planned to paste in initials on a grand scale (as on 22v, 23v, 32v); this appears more like an isolated afterthought. There are no guide letters. The simple capitals were (judging from their position) entered by the scribe after the rest of the verbal text when it became clear that neither he nor anybody else was going to execute the more elaborate penned or painted initials. | ||||