multiple impression

Rotunda, Uncial

red initials, red staff lines, red text

Music on 14 leaves, quires t-v. Space is always left for the large red uncial initials, woodcut initials, and rubrics. Space is also left for signa congruentiae and certain other initials (including the first Sunday of Advent, the first large 'K' in the Kyrie incipits, and all the following smaller 'K's', and the 'P' at the beginning of the preface section) to be added by hand. Red double margins bound the staves to the left and the right, and the clefs and custodes are printed within these. The staves appear to be constructed of segments of varying widths; however, these are set so carefully it is difficult to determine the width of each segment. At times there is also an impression that the lines are nested (see, for example, the final system of t8v).

Hufnagel notation; cantus fractus

Measurements:

full-length staff: 170.5 x 13 mm (c1v); double margins to the left and right add c. 4 mm each. Height of virga one: c. 7.0-7.5 mm; height of virga two: 8.5 mm; height of virga three: 9 mm; height of virga four: 11 mm.

The notation is clearly and carefully printed and in general is quite evenly spaced. The stems of Stuchs’ music type are rather thick in comparison with the noteheads, as can be seen on the clivis and the virga. The bottom of most of the stems are cut on an angle, but some virgae have a flat-bottomed stem. Rubrics instruct the celebrant to sing the red notes for the more solemn of the two feasts in the pair and to omit them otherwise; however, no notes are printed in red.

chant

b3r-b4v: Liber generationis; k4v-k8v: Benedictio Cerei; t1r-t2r: Kyrie, Gloria and Credo intonations.
t2v-v6v: Prefaces. At first there is the notation for several levels of solemnity (presumably the quotidiana preface): solemn, duple, nine lessons, dominical, ferial and requiem. Then there follows solemn and lesser feasts, duple and nine lessons, and ferial prefaces. Prefaces are notated for the following feasts (Christmas, Epiphany, Quadragesima [dominical and ferial only], Holy Cross, Ascension, Holy Spirit, Trinity, Blessed Virgin Mary, Apostles.
bb5v-bb6v: Pater nosters (solemn, nine lessons, ferial).

Copies:

A-FRIdk, A-Gd, A-Gu, A-Gu, A-Gu, A-Kadg, A-Kadg, A-Kk, *A-Ska, A-SL, *A-SPL, *A-Su, *A-Su, *A-Su, *A-VOR, *A-Wn, D-LEdnb, D-Mbs, GB-Mr, H-SFk, I-Nn, LV-Rg, US-SFgl, *US-SM, US-Wc

Secondary literature:

Gillion, Marianne C.E. "Archiepiscopal Archetypes, Printed Books, and Parish Practices: Musical Notation in Editions of the ‘Missale Salisburgense’ (1492-1515)." Florilegium 34 (2017): 119–146 (published 2021).
Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)