Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 21, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper (with parchment)
Number of leaves: D: i + 117 + i; A: i + 112 + i; T: i + 126 + i; B: i + 115 + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 128-129 x 188-191
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: f. 2v: Heraldic emblem surrounded by circle canon (different one in each book).
Index / Table of Contents: D, ff. 113r-114v: alphabetical index, written by main scribe, corresponding to Roman numerals above individual pieces
Other devices: 1. Original numbering of pieces in top margin, I-LXX. 2. modern pencil foliation top right.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | never |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, no lines for text |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
light brown ink | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
reddish brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | music indented over 1 stave to accommodate initials, variously | |
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) | Italian |
---|---|
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 |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Later changes | Folios | |
---|---|---|
Additions by later hand at end |
Text
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
two lines of a repeated phrase, rarely |
Text repetitions | fairly many |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | always | calligraphic , calligraphic with grotesque heads, flourished | Moderately ornate cadels, one line, some filled in with penwork or more rarely with grotesque faces |