Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Magliabechi XIX.178, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: ii + IV + 78 + I + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 115 x 167
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: ff. Ir-IIv: Near-contemporary alphabetical index
f. Ir: tabula
Atroter amors 34
Ales regres 43
Aguil mie me 47
Adiu mens amors 49
Amie des 53
Amors failt moltant 58
Adiu per buon temps 64
A fortune contrent 70
Anima mea 73
Adiu adiu 77
Adiu florens 78
Belle pous lamous 10
[Belle pgus lapens 10 barred]
Comen poter auer joye 8
Corri fortuna 18
Cest malserche 25
Celasant plus 40
Che letam mon gre 46
Cede uous 69
f. iv: Dictes moy toutes 14
De tous bien plein 35
Dunaltra mer 63
Detuse in buse 76
En atendant 19
Et quiladira dira 37
Elongeno nous 42
Elas madame 44
Etro penser 67
En atendant 26
Fille uos aue 71
Gentil galans 48
Jenai de duel 2
Jampris amors 3
Jampris amors 4
Jminez zibec 9
Jeme 11
Jn est uiuant 12
Jdest trophis 21
Je uous uous 24
Jnose plus 36
Jenefai plus 41
Jn pace in idipsum 52
Jene puis amer 55
Jene suis point 65
Je uous primon tres 75
f. iir: Lore uenus 6
Lerenoye 31
Lare 45
Lamora 30
Monpere 23
Montot 50
Maspenses 57
Maldit soie 59
Meschin che fui 68
Mon souenir 28
Nayo byenori set ans 33
Numquam fuit pena maior 38
O uenus bant 29
Plus que pontofles 54
Sempre giro piangendo 22
Sidedero 32
Seie fais bien 60
Servitur suay 61
Sent mille scus 62
Semi elcielo efati 66
Tartara moncuer 51
f. iiv: Vne mosche dibuschaye 17
Vrai diu 39
Vostre alebruit 56
Vostre bregeronette 74
Other devices: Original brown ink foliation, recto top right, 1-78
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
One pricking hole on each page about 6 mm below and 10 mm inside the outside bounding line. Function unclear. |
Ruled grid | always |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
brown ink | always | Vertical bounding lines only. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
dark brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
triple rastrum | always | Visible from very slight divergences in the distance of stave lines within the rastrum and in horizontal justification. Repetitive intervals between staves are 7, 7, 7.5, 7, 7. | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | Music and text indented over ruled staves on pages written by scribe I (ff. IVv-25r, 30v-70r). | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | occasionally | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation extended into margin | sometimes | 3v, 7v, 8v, 10v, 18v, 22v, 31v-32r, 34r, 35r, 36v-37r, 38r, 39v, 40v-41r, 43r-v, 44v, 50r-v, 53r, 55v, 56v, 57v-58r, 59v, 60v-63r, 64r, 65v, 66v, 71r, 73r, 74v, 77v | |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 31r, 46r, 47v-48r, 57r, 65v |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Dutch, French, Italian, Latin, Spanish |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
provided with single incipit | discantus | normally | IVv-14r, 16v-19r, 20v-26r, 27v-78r | |
untexted | all except discantus | normally | IVv-14r, 16v-19r, 20v-26r, 27v-78r | |
untexted | all voice parts | rarely | 14v-16r, 19v-20r, 26v-27r, 78v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | teardrop-shaped |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
end symbol | 17v, 19v, 21v-22r, 25v-30r, 69v-70r, 71v-78v | Primarily used by scribe II. |
repeat signs | 1v-2r, 21v-22r, 45v-46r, 53v, 67v | |
signes-de-renvoi | 6r, 8r, 11r, 18r, 30r, 44r, 45r, 48r, 52r, 56r, 57r, 61r | Always in the form of a pointing finger. |
signa congruentiae | 7v | |
Later changes | Folios | |
note erased | IVv, 1r, 63v | |
note erased and changed to correct pitch | 37r | |
repeated passage of notes erased | 45r | |
final portion of second stave erased, staves redrawn free-hand and left blank | 68r |
Text
Types of script | cursive |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | none |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text |
16v: Canon Quiescit qui super me volat post venit que ante me factus est
78v: Canon Omnia probate quod bonum est tenere
Verte: IVv-1r, 2v, 6r, 11v-12r, 14v-15r
Secunda pars: 1v, 15v
Residium [sic]: 3v, 6v, 12v, 71v
Composers names: 1v, 2v, 4v, 5v, 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 13v, 14v, 16v, 17v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v, 24v, 25v, 26r-27v, 29v-30r, 31v, 32v-33v, 34v, 35v-36v, 39v, 41v, 42v, 43v, 44v-45r, 46v, 47v, 48v-49r, 51v-52v, 54v, 55v, 56v, 58v, 59v, 64v, 65v-66r, 67v, 69v, 70v-71r, 72v, 73v-74v, 75v, 76v-77v, 78v ,
1v, 2v, 3v, 4v, 5v, 7v, 8v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 14v, 15v, 16v, 17v, 19v, 20v, 21v, 22v, 23v, 24v, 25v, 26r-27v, 29v-30r, 31v, 32v-33v, 34v, 35v-36v, 39v, 41v, 42v, 43v, 44v-45r, 46v, 47v, 48v-49r, 51v-52v, 54v, 55v, 56v, 58v, 59v, 64v, 65v-66r, 67v, 69v, 70v-71v, 72v, 73v-74v, 75v, 76v-77v, 78v |
Later changes |
comical faces and pentrials,
recto of second front flyleaf; I'v |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very poor |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | occasionally | 25v-30r, 70v-78r | calligraphic | Start of each voice part, before stave, fairly small. | Very basic initials, with little decoration. Initial for discantus perhaps by a different hand. Initials for voice designations in lower parts. | |
initials planned | rarely | 1v-2r, 3v-4r, 6v-7r, 15v-16r | Notation indented on one stave, at start of the lower voice parts. | Initials planned for voice designations in lower parts. This typically occurs on the second opening of a song, where no text incipit is supplied for the discantus part. | ||
initials planned | normally | IVv-1r, 2v-3r, 4v-6r, 7v-15r, 16v-25r, 30v-70r | Guide letters only | Notation indented on one stave, at start of each voice part. | Guide letters often visible for the text incipit's initial. Initials planned for voice designations in lower parts. |