Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Mus. Hs 2° 2, All folios
Physical description
Material: parchment
Number of leaves: i + 113 + i
Format: upright
Page dimensions: 545 x 365
Quire structure: Text version
Other devices: 1. Traces of (modern?) pencil foliation, recto top right, entered after the loss of the opening folios of each piece, but before any further folios were removed.
2. Modern library foliation, pencil top right
Page details (zoom):
Preparation and Copying
All foliosPreparation
Disposition of Voice Parts Key
Pricking | none visible |
Ruled grid |
always,
single line to left and right, double line for text |
Ruling pattern |
variable
flexible on 10-stave grid |
Staves omitted from grid | often |
Incomplete staves |
often,
staves end where musical notation ends |
Medium and colour of grid | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|
hard point or 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 |
single | always | initials only, 'residuum' in left margin without indentation of staves or music | |
Extra space between voice parts | Frequency | Folios | Note |
staves not ruled on grid | normally | ||
Space provided for separate text | Frequency | Folios | Note |
no separate text | always | ||
Adhoc adaptation | Frequency | Folios | Note |
notation and staves extended into margin | often |
Copying of text and music
Language(s) | Latin |
---|---|
Order of Copying |
music first
always |
Presence/absence of text | Voice part | Frequency | Folios | Note |
---|---|---|---|---|
fully texted with one text | all voice parts | always | Cantus firmus voices with ordinary text only |
Music
Colour(s) of notation | black |
Type(s) of notation | void mensural |
Type of notation note | rhomboid shaped |
Monophonic notation | absent |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Text
Types of script | textura |
Level of calligraphy | high |
Colour(s) of text | black |
Multiple texts | no |
Text repetitions | very few |
Abbreviations | fairly many |
Non underlaid vocal text | none |
Liminary text | Canonic instructions, occasionally |
Decoration
Level of Decoration | fair |
Decoration miniature frequency | Folios | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
none visible | presumably on excised folios | |||||
Decoration initial type | Frequency | Folios | Initial type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies |
penned initials | normally | calligraphic , flourished | cadel-type initials in red, black, green, and blue; some penflourishing | |||
Other decoration frequency | Folios | Other decoration type(s) | Size position | Description | Discrepancies | |
often | littera notabilior | 'Residuum' rubrics in left margin | same type of script as verbal text, but in red, bigger and more ornate |