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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choirbook
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choirbook (single quire(s))
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paper
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Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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chant (square)
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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2
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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none
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repeat signs
4
signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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no
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yes
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plain initials
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London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Royal 11 E. xi, 1516, All folios
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