Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2439, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: iv + 102 + i
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 168 x 240
Quire structure: Text version
Index / Table of Contents: 1. Alphabetical index, original or near-contemporary, IVr-v.
2. Summary of contents, modern, Iir-IIIr
Other devices: 1. original ink foliation, recto top right, I-CI
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking |
always,
top and bottom of vertical bounding lines, none visible for staves (which are ruled at irregular intervals) |
Ruled grid |
always,
single vertical bounding lines; no text lines |
Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | rarely |
Incomplete staves | never |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
lead point | always | ||
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
black | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
single rastrum | always | ||
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
quadruple | rarely | 1v | |
triple | rarely | 50v | |
double | normally | staves 1-2 and 4-5, usually only about 1 cm for upright voice designations or D initial which is mostly in the margin. c. 30 mm for painted initials, sometimes more. Carefully planned with knowledge of repertoire | |
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 | never | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
made for complete additional staves | rarely | 47v, 48r | |
notation and staves extended into margin | rarely | 48r |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Dutch, French, Latin |
---|---|
Higlighting | none |
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | occasionally | ||
fully texted with two or more texts | discantus | rarely | 1v | |
provided with single incipit | all except discantus | often | ||
provided with single incipit | all voice parts | often | ||
untexted | tenor | rarely | 9v |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | teardrop shaped |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
repeat signs | double bar flanked by two dots to each side | |
signes-de-renvoi | sketchy symbols: simple stars (e.g. 19v-20r), two arrows (e.g. 61v-62r), simple cross (e.g. 64v-65r), mainly in black ink; pictorial symbols: four diamond shapes with a vertical line (e.g. 71v-72r), in black ink. |
Text 1
Types of script | cursive (bastarda) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Multiple texts | yes |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | composers' names |
Text 2
Types of script | display script |
Types of script size position | voice names and 'residuum' rubrics |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black red |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | very high |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
rarely | 1v | one miniature, four staves high, at the beginning of the discantus and the tenor, at the beginning of the manuscript with mainly four part music (f. 1v) | heraldic arms, crested with a helmet and a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus | |||
rarely | 49v | one miniature, three staves high, at the beginning of the discantus, at the beginning of three part music (f. 49v) | field with a woman looking at an object in the sky identified as a comet surrounded by four stars (Burbure 1882, 7), with a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus in the foreground | |||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
initials planned | sometimes | |||||
painted initials | occasionally | 1v, 2r | decorated | at the beginning of major openings (ff. 1v-2r) | acanthus initials on coloured grounds or set against parchment, partly decorated with a monkey playing bagpipe, a bird and a butterfly (f. 1v), flowers and strawberries (f. 2r) | |
painted initials | rarely | 51v | zoomorphic initial | beginning of discantus | one zoomorphic initial built of a dragon (f. 51v) | |
penned initials | occasionally | calligraphic , plain initials | at the beginning of discantus | plain in red ink; calligraphic (ff. 44v, 46v, 47r) | ||
painted initials | rarely | 50v | decorated | at the beginning of major opening (ff. 50r-51r) | acanthus initials on coloured grounds or set against parchment, partly decorated with monkeys, heraldic arms (f. 50v) | |
painted initials | rarely | 72v | decorated | beginning of discantus | acanthus initials on coloured grounds or set against parchment, partly decorated with a putto (f. 72v) | |
painted initials | occasionally | 1v, 2r, 3v, 4v, 5v, 7v, 8v, 50r, 50v, 51r, 51v, 66v, 67v, 68v, 70v, 71v, 72v, 73v, 82v, 83v, 84v, 85v, 87v | decorated | at the beginning of the discantus | acanthus initials on coloured grounds or set against parchment |