Cambridge, Great Britain, University Library, MS Nn.6.46, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 18 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 583 x 443
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: 2 poems on ff. 1v-2r relating to riddle motet Hoc fecit/Intendas/Ave regina celorum
Other devices: 1. Quire signatures 1-3, pencil bottom right (modern).
2. Modern foliation 1-18, pencil top right, 1-18.
3. Small crosses, modern (?) pencil bottom right on ff. 2r, 7r, 15r, function unclear
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking | none visible |
| Ruled grid |
never,
single line to left and right, thin double line for text (3-4 mm apart, always drawn even where no text entered); often thick line drawn across the entire page as bottom justification, top line of top stave of every voice normally drawn all across the page as well, but not reaching edges. |
| Ruling pattern |
variable
stavelines very precisely parallel but with somewhat varying distances between individual stavelines and also very imprecisely justified horizontally |
| Staves omitted from grid | n/a |
| Incomplete staves | never |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| light brown ink | always | ||
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| black | always | ||
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| straightedge | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single | always | ||
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | ||
| variable space, not on grid | normally | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| provided, in dedicated space | rarely | 1v-2r | for riddle poem between voices on f. 1v, above music on f. 2r |
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 | normally | ||
| provided with single incipit | discantus | rarely | 1v |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | black red |
| Type(s) of notation | full mensural |
| Type of notation note | full mensural (English), teardrop shape |
| Monophonic notation |
present
1v, Contratenor |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Later changes | Folios | |
|---|---|---|
| some corrections in discantus of riddle motet f. 1v |
Text
| Types of script | textura |
| Level of calligraphy | high |
| Colour(s) of text | black red |
| Multiple texts | no |
| Text repetitions | none |
| Abbreviations | none |
| Non underlaid vocal text | none |
| Liminary text | ff. 1v-2r: riddle instructions, heading 'Cantus collateralis' in large display script. Canonic instructions for tenor in mass, occasionally |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | fair |
| Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rarely | 2r | top half of page | fully coloured painted image of Henry VII (?) with the Tudor rose facing the composer (Lloyd?) | |||
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
| painted initials | normally | decorated | square or slightly squat rectangular initials, gold letters on red and blue ground with white tendrils | |||
| Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
| normally | littera notabilior | litterae notabiliores at beginning of subsections in all voices, red or blue or gold large monochrome initials | ||||
| sometimes | decorative final long | |||||