Barcelona, Spain, Biblioteca de Catalunya, M. 251 (olim 250), 137v-139r, 140v-143r

Physical description

Material: parchment and paper (mixed)

Number of leaves: iii + 146 + iii

Format: upright

Page dimensions: 215 x 142

Quire structure: Text version

Index / Table of Contents: Partial table of contents on first parchment folio, unfoliated (folio before f. 1).

Non-musical texts: Ordo sepeliendum secularum defunctum vel defunctam. (verso of first parchment folio, immediately before f. 1)

Other devices: Old foliation 1–144 beginning after 3 modern endleaves and one leaf with table of contents.

Page details (zoom):

All folios

Pricking	none visible, Numerous small holes are present in the surface of this manuscript; on f. 144 a hole in the upper margin falls exactly on the outer justification line: it is unclear whether this was a pricking hole or whether the position is a coincidence.
Ruled grid	always, Now faint.
Ruling pattern	highly regular The grid includes vertical justification lines, and six pairs of horizontal rulings, one for each line of text.
Staves omitted from grid	never
Incomplete staves	never

Medium and colour of grid	Frequency	Folios	Note
brown ink and hard point	normally		The grid, now faint, appears to have been made with a pen with very little ink, sometimes leaving an ink mark and sometimes just leaving a ruled mark.
Colour of staves	Frequency	Folios	Note
red	always
Ruling medium	Frequency	Folios	Note
single rastrum	always		19mm
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
Adhoc adaptation	Frequency	Folios	Note
notation extended into margin	rarely	141v, 142r
staveline added	rarely	137v, 138v

Language(s)	Latin
Order of Copying	text first always

Presence/absence of text	Voice part	Frequency	Folios
fully texted with one text	tenor	sometimes	137v-139r
provided with single incipit	all except tenor	sometimes	137v-139r
fully texted with one text	all voice parts	sometimes	140v-143r

Colour(s) of notation	dark brown
Type(s) of notation	void mensural
Type of notation note	rhomboid noteheads
Monophonic notation	present 137v, 141r, 142r, 143r, There appear to be incipits of chant in one voice only, although the notation appears somewhat mensural this may in fact be incipits of some other monophonic music.
Level of calligraphy	fair

Non verbal performance instructions	Folios	Note
signes-de-renvoi	137v-139r	extended custodes
coronae	138v-139r	rare
Line fillers	Folios	Note
none
Later changes	Folios
first notes of tenor part erased and corrected	138v

Types of script	hybrida
Level of calligraphy	high
Colour(s) of text	dark brown
Multiple texts	no
Text repetitions	few
Abbreviations	few
Non underlaid vocal text	none
Liminary text	Tenor and contratenor voice parts named on ff. 137v-138r; otherwise no liminary text, 137v-138r

Level of Decoration	poor

Decoration miniature frequency		Folios		Size position	Description	Discrepancies
never
Decoration border frequency	Border type	Folios	Size	Position	Description	Discrepancies
never	None		None
Decoration initial type	Frequency	Folios	Initial type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
penned initials	always		calligraphic	1 stave tall, before stave (no indentation); crosses stave if new section starts midline.	Small calligraphic initials at the start of each voice part (ff. 137v-139r) and start of the phrases of the Credo (ff. 140v-141r).
Other decoration frequency		Folios	Other decoration type(s)	Size position	Description	Discrepancies
never