Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: 95
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 715 x 480
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: Original pagination, 1-189, but usually only odd-numbered pages have numbers.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | none visible |
| Ruled grid | none visible |
| Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
| Staves omitted from grid | often |
| Incomplete staves |
sometimes,
pp. 4, 5, 11, 19, 32, 33, 45, 66, 67, 79, 128, 130, 132, 167, 170, 171, 173, 177 |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| brown | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| straightedge | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single | normally | ||
| double | occasionally | ||
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| variable space, not on grid | normally | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| no separate text | always | ||
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| partial additional staves | occasionally | pp. 4, 5, 11, 19, 32, 33, 45, 66, 67, 79, 128, 130, 132, 167, 170, 171, 173, 177 |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | Latin |
|---|---|
| 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 | full mensural |
| Type of notation note | English style, squat symmetrical teardrop shaped notation. With void coloration. |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
Text 1
| Types of script | cursive (Anglicana) |
| Types of script note | with textura elements |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | none |
| Abbreviations | some |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text | No voice designations |
| Later changes | Replacement of torn out lower corner of fol. 1 with piece of parchment and missing notation |
Text 2
| Types of script | display script |
| Types of script size position | Composer ascriptions above recto page. Composition title above verso page. 'Gimel' indications in left margin. |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red blue |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | fair |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | p. 61, 159 | p. 61 above top stave p. 159: between C and T. | p. 61: small fly p. 159: small grasshopper | |||
| Decoration border frequency | Border type | Folios | Size | Position | Description | Discrepancies |
| occasionally | decorated | partial borders: two-sided | outer margin, upper margin | |||
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | always | decorated, historiated, zoomorphic initial | various types of two-line (at the beginning of compositions and movements) and one-line (at the beginning of subsections) initials, mostly over red or rose paint, on a wide variety of backgrounds incorporating flowers, birds, and geometrical shapes. Historiated initials include a mermaid with mirror (pp. 23 and 57); a man beating a frying-pan with a ladle, with the legend ‘John Coke’ (p. 44); a Garter with the legend ‘hony soyt que male y pense’ (p. 60); and a fox wearing a green coat and cowl, holding a crozier, with the legend ‘ffryer foxe’ and, in the initial beneath, the legend ‘The foxe is next kynne to A ffryer […] itt’ (p. 93). A full list of the illuminations is provided by Bowers in [[Fenlon 1982]], pp. 126-27. | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| sometimes | decorative final long | |||||