Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 2794, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: iv + 78 + iv
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 240 x 167
Quire structure: Text version
Non-musical texts: f. 1r: French poem
f. 78v: French poem
Other devices: Modern foliation, stamped recto top right, 1-78
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Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Signe de renvoi
| Pricking |
sometimes,
Pricking holes for each ruled stave in outer margins corresponding to top staveline. Vertical bounding lines pricked at top and bottom. |
| Ruled grid | always |
| Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
| Staves omitted from grid | never |
| Incomplete staves |
never,
Added staves only. |
| Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| hard point | always | Vertical bounding lines only. | |
| Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| light brown | sometimes | 1r-8v, 25r-32v | |
| dark brown | normally | 9r-24v, 33r-78v | |
| Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| single rastrum | always | ||
| Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| double | rarely | 1r-2r | |
| single | normally | 2v-78v | 66r: Bassus part, notation indented on stave. (Everywhere else, staves indented at the start of each voice part.) |
| Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| empty ruled staves on grid | normally | ||
| Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| provided, in dedicated space | normally | Unruled space on the bottom half of the verso pages | |
| Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
| made for complete additional staves | rarely | 14v, 31r, 32v, 71v | |
| partial additional staves | rarely | 14v, 71v | |
| notation extended into margin | occasionally | 1v-2v, 4r, 10r, 11v-12r, 27r, 30v, 32r, 42r, 52r, 53r, 59v, 74v, 75r, 77r, 78r | |
| notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 7r, 12r, 16r, 17r, 22r, 62r, 68r, 69r, 71r, 76v-77r | |
| staveline added | sometimes |
Copying of text and music
| Language(s) | French, Latin |
|---|---|
| Order of Copying |
music first
always |
| Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| provided with one or two incipits | tenor | rarely | 1v-2r, 25v-27r, 45v-46r | |
| untexted | all except tenor | rarely | 1v-2r | |
| fully texted with one or two texts | all except tenor | rarely | 25v-27r | |
| partially texted with two texts | altus | rarely | 45v-46r | |
| partially texted with one or two texts | all except discantus | rarely | 4v-6r, 7v-8r, 15v-18r | |
| fully texted with one or two texts | discantus | normally | 4v-6r, 7v-9r, 13v-14r, 15v-21r, 24v-25r, 27v-33r, 36v-42r, 43v-46r, 46v-60r, 61v-65r, 66v-75r | |
| provided with one or two incipits | all except discantus | normally | 8v-9r, 13v-14r, 19v-21r, 24v-25r, 27v-34r, 36v-45r, 46v-60r, 61v-62r, 64v-65r, 66v-75r | |
| untexted | all except discantus | rarely | 18v-19r, 61v-62r | |
| partially texted with one or two texts | discantus | rarely | 33v-34r, 42v-43r | |
| partially texted with one or two texts | altus | rarely | 62v-64r | |
| provided with single incipit | altus | rarely | 65v-66r | |
| fully texted with one or two texts | all except altus | rarely | 65v-66r | |
| provided with single incipit | all voice parts | rarely | 23v-24r | |
| untexted | all voice parts | rarely | 2v-3r, 60v-61r | |
| fully texted with one or two texts | all voice parts | rarely | 9v-13r, 75v-78r | |
| fully texted with one or two texts | discantus and tenor | rarely | 3v-4r, 6v-7r, 14v-15r, 34v-36r | |
| provided with single incipit | all except discantus and tenor | rarely | 14v-15r, 34v-36r | |
| partially texted with one text | bassus | rarely | 6v-7r | |
| untexted | bassus | rarely | 3v-4r, 21v-23r | |
| partially texted with one text | discantus and tenor | rarely | 21v-23r |
Music
| Colour(s) of notation | brown |
| Colour of notation note | <p>Written in various shades of brown ink: light (ff. 1v-8v, 21v-24v); dark (ff. 9r-13r, 14v-15r, 17v-21r); brown (13v-14r, 15v-17r, 25r-78r)</p> |
| Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
| Type of notation note | Teardrop shaped noteheads |
| Monophonic notation | absent |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
|---|---|---|
| repeat signs | 13v-14r, 17v-18r, 25v-26r | |
| signes-de-renvoi | 14v-15r | |
| Line fillers | Folios | Note |
| few | 71r | Elongated oblique ligature. |
Text
| Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
| Level of calligraphy | fair |
| Colour(s) of text | brown written in various shades of brown ink: light brown (ff. 21v-24v, 61v-64r); dark brown (ff. 1v-13r, 14v-15r, 17v-21r); reddish brown (ff. 13v-14r, 15v-17r, 25r-59v) and other brown inks (ff. 64v-78r) |
| Multiple texts |
yes
13v-14r, 17v-18r, 25v-26r, 32v-33r, 45v-46r, 47v-48r, 55v-56r |
| Text repetitions | few |
| Abbreviations | few |
| Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
Non underlaid vocal text frequently present. Placed in blank staves and/or blank space beneath the discantus part on the verso. |
| Liminary text | Composer attribution frequently provided in centre of upper verso margin. f. 34r: dedication in the upper margin. ff. 2r, 7r, 69r, 70r, 71r: 'Tenor' in recto upper margin. f. 14v: 'Residuum'. f. 64v: 'Rondeau royal'. f. 73v: 'verte folium' ff. 73v-74v: various marginalia |
Decoration
| Level of Decoration | very poor |
| Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| initials planned | normally | 1v-78r | Staves and notation indented at the start of each voice part. Two staves indented ff. 1v-2r; one stave indented ff. 2v-78v. | |||
| penned initials | rarely | 72v, 73r | calligraphic | One stave high, at the start of the discantus part. |