Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2441, All folios
Physical description
Material: paper
Number of leaves: iii + i + 72 + i + iii
Format: oblong
Page dimensions: 145 x 210
Quire structure: Text version
Title page / Frontispiece: Title added in a 19th-century hand: 'Musica antica a 4 parti cantanti / con le parole / dell secolo circa il 1460'. (f. 1r)
Other devices: 1. Modern pencil foliation recto bottom left, 1-72
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
single vertical bounding lines; no text lines |
Ruling pattern | fairly regular |
Staves omitted from grid | never |
Incomplete staves |
never,
Added staves only (see ad hoc adaptations). |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
lead point | always | Justification lines only. | |
Colour of staves | Frequency | Folios | Note |
dark brown | always | ||
Ruling medium | Frequency | Folios | Note |
double rastrum | always | Top two staves of every page, rastrum size 9.75 mm with interspace of 5.5 mm | |
triple rastrum | always | Bottom three staves of every page, rastrum size 10-9.75-9.75 mm with interspace of 5.5 mm | |
Indentation for initials | Frequency | Folios | Note |
none | always | ||
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
empty ruled staves on grid | sometimes | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
not in dedicated space | often | 2v-11v, 12v, 13v-14v, 16v-19r, 20v, 21v-32v, 33v-56v, 57v-70v, 71v | Height of music/text area including additional text 105-110 mm |
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | sometimes | 2r, 10v-11v, 25v-26r, 29v-30r, 33v-34r, 36v-37v, 43v-44r, 45r, 48v-49r, 50v, 52v, 55v, 56v | |
partial additional staves | occasionally | 6r, 11v, 19v, 20v, 44v-45r, 70v-71v | |
made for complete additional staves | rarely | 25v, 51r | |
staveline added | sometimes | 6r, 7v, 11v, 17v, 18r, 20v, 23r-24r, 25r, 27r, 42v, 45r, 54r, 57r, 65r, 66v, 71r, 72r |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Italian |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one or two texts | discantus | always | ||
untexted | all except discantus | always |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | brown |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shaped |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Non verbal performance instructions | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|
repeat signs | 2v-5r, 6v-16r, 18v-23r, 26v-29r, 33v-39r, 43v-45r, 46v-47r, 48v-49r, 51v-52r, 53v-55r, 56v-57r, 58v-59r, 60v-61r, 62v-63r, 64v-66r |
Text
Types of script | cursive (humanistic) |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | brown |
Multiple texts |
yes
2v, 6v, 7v, 10v, 14v, 15v, 18v, 19v, 25v, 32v, 34v, 35v, 36v, 37v, 43v, 44v, 45v, 46v, 48v, 50v |
Text repetitions | few |
Abbreviations | few |
Non underlaid vocal text |
additional
2v-11v, 12v, 13v-14v, 16v-19r, 20v, 21v-32v, 33v-70v, 71v |
Liminary text |
'verte folium' or 'verte' (ff. 2r, 18r, 70v); 'residuum' (f. 2v); 'ut supra' (ff. 2v, 4v-5r, 10v, 15v, 32v, 34v, 37v, 40v, 42v, 43v, 48v, 50v); 'Soneti' (f. 39v),
2r, 2v, 10v, 4v-5r, 15v, 18r, 32v, 34v, 37v, 39v, 40v, 42v, 43v, 48v, 50v, 70v |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
penned initials | always | calligraphic with decoration, calligraphic with grotesque heads | Beginning of voice parts. | Calligraphic initials in dark brown ink with pen-flourished decoration, highlighted in yellow, some including human faces or heads. |