PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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Number of staves
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Copying of Music
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Type of Notation
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Miniatures Frequency
often
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Borders Frequency
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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Other Decoration Frequency
always
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sometimes
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Physical type: choirbook
Colour of staves: brown
Ruling medium: single rastrum
Number of staves: 5
Monophonic notation: absent
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Leipzig, Germany, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 1494, c. 1490-1504, All folios
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