Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Panciatichi 27, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper (with parchment)
Number of leaves: iii + i + xi + 216 + ix + i + iii
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 153 x 214
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Title: 'Cantilene sacre e profane' with a Panciatichi bookplate below (both later additions).
Other devices: Original brown ink foliation, recto top right, ff. 1-120, followed by a modern red ink foliation in the same position, 121-216.
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid | always |
Ruling pattern | highly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
lead point | always | Vertical bounding lines only, no lines for text. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
dark brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | Rastrum height ranging from 12 to 12.5 mm - either two rastra used alternatively, or one rastrum with a degree of splaying. Definitely not a double rastrum. | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | rarely | Space usually left below rather that between voice parts. | |
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | sometimes | Additional texts inserted on staves, in the space left empty at the end of voice parts. | |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 4v, 10r, 17v-18r, 70r-71r, 87r, 91r, 107r, 120r, 208r, 209r | |
notation extended into margin | rarely | 12r, 47r, 145r, 154r, 209v |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Dutch, French, Italian, Latin |
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Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | sometimes | ||
untexted | all voice parts | rarely | ||
provided with one or two incipits | all voice parts | rarely | ||
partially texted with one text | all voice parts | rarely | ||
fully texted with one or two texts | discantus | sometimes | ||
untexted | all except discantus | occasionally | ||
partially texted with one text | all except discantus | rarely | 3v-5r, 89v-91r | |
provided with one or two incipits | discantus | occasionally | ||
provided with one or two incipits | all except discantus | rarely | ||
provided with single incipit | bassus | rarely | 1v-3r, 7v-8r, 17r, 20v, 27v-28r, 38v-39r, 63v-65r, 78v, 97v-98r, 110v-111r, 130v-131r | |
untexted | all except discantus and bassus | rarely | 1v-3r, 17r, 20v, 27v-28r, 38v-39r, 63v-65r, 78v, 97v-98r, 110v-111r, 130v-131r | |
fully texted with one text | bassus | rarely | 41v-42r, 212v-213r | |
untexted | all except bassus | rarely | 41v-42r | |
fully texted and provided with incipit | all except discantus and bassus | rarely | 41v-42r | |
fully texted with one text | all except bassus | rarely | 7v-8r | |
provided with single incipit | all except bassus | rarely | 19v-20r, 99v-100r | |
partially texted with one text | altus | rarely | 102v-103r | |
fully texted with one text | all except altus | rarely | 102v-103r | |
untexted | all except altus | rarely | 43v-45r, 60v-61r | |
provided with single incipit | altus | rarely | 22v-23r, 31v-32r, 39v-40r, 43v-46r, 60v-61r, 69v-70r, 95v-96r, 139v-140r | |
untexted | all except discantus and altus | rarely | 22v-23r, 31v-32r, 39v-40r, 45v-46r, 60v-61r, 69v-70r, 95v-96r, 139v-140r | |
partially texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 79v-80r | |
fully texted with one text | all except tenor | rarely | 79v-80r | |
provided with single incipit | all except tenor | rarely | 105v-106r | |
untexted | tenor | rarely | 23v-24r, 56v, 105v-106r, 111v-112r, 149v-150r | |
untexted | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 21v, 28v, 40v | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 23v-24r, 56v, 77v-78r, 111v-112r, 114v-115r, 149v-150r | |
provided with single incipit | tenor | rarely | 29v-30r, 40v, 109v-110r | |
untexted | bassus | rarely | 19v-20r, 42v-43r, 54v-56r, 99v-100r | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus and bassus | rarely | 42v-43r, 54v-56r | |
partially texted with one text | bassus | rarely | 29v-30r, 109v-110r | |
fully texted with one text | altus | rarely | 29v-30r, 109v-110r | |
fully texted with one text | tenor | rarely | 21v, 28v, 77v-78r, 114v-115r |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black brown |
Colour of notation note | <p>Colours of ink varies from dark brown to brown, with a section written in black ink (ff. 138r-145r, 146v-156r, 209v-213r)</p> |
Type(s) of notation | chant (square), void mensural |
Type of notation note | Rhomboid noteheads. |
Monophonic notation |
present
133v, 209v |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
end symbol | Decorative final barline very common. Often followed by small two/three digit number, whose significance is unclear to me. | |
repeat signs | common | |
signes-de-renvoi | 94v-95r | |
Later changes | Folios | |
Additions by the mains scribe (ff. 23v-24r, 42v-43r, 216); later addition (ff. 207v-209r) Music theory added to blank staves on f. 216v. Music erased at top of f. 134r. |
Text
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Types of script note | Some texts by the same scribe are written in textura (ff. 16v, 21v-22r, 45v, 104v, 114v-115r, 115v-116r. |
Level of calligraphy | fair |
Colour(s) of text | black brown Colours of ink varies from dark brown to brown, with a section written in light reddish brown (ff. 133v-136v) and black ink (ff. 138r-145r, 146v-156r, 209v-213r). |
Multiple texts | yes |
Text repetitions | fairly few |
Abbreviations | fairly few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
Provided in blank staves. ff. 112r-113v non underlaid text vocal text erased/blackened? |
Liminary text | Voice names/initials in outer margins. Composer frequently named in upper margin(s). Prima pars/secunda pars, tertia pars sometimes marked: ff. 5v, 6v, 9v, 10v, 11v, 26v, 44v, 91v, 92v, 93v, 95v, 130v, 131v. Title sometimes given: ff. 14r, 15r, 17v, 19v, 27r, 29v-31r, 34v, 36v, 41v, 44r-v, 46r, 47r, 49v, 51r-v, 52v, 57r, 60v, 61v, 98v, 107r, 112v. 17v-18r: 'pro quatuor longis, in contra positis' 21v: 'Circulo quoque oveniat altus post novam' 25v: 'uolue' 56v, 112r: 'ut supra' 103v, 134v: 'duo' 135r-v: 'tacet' |
Later changes | additions by the main scribe (ff. 23v-24r, 42v-43r, 216v); later additions (f. 207v). |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads | One stave high, in outer margins next to stave. | Voice part names or initials of voice part names are usually provided in a display script by the main scribe, occasionally with some colour, flourishing or heads. | ||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
normally | decorative final long, end-symbol | Final note of voice part typically elongated and decorated in some manner. This is usually followed by a decorative final bar-line. |