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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Material
paper
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Format
oblong
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
brown
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Ruling Medium
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Number of staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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not in dedicated space
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notation extended into margin
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staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
dark brown
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light brown
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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Copying of Text
Language
French
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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Type of Script
cursive
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cursive (bastarda)
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brown
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light brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
always
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Borders Size
partial borders: one- and two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
always
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Painted Initials Type
decorated
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic with decoration
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decorated with grotesque heads
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Planned Initials Frequency
normally
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
occasionally
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2442, First half of the 16th century, probably c. 1527, Cantus partbook, all folios
Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Rés. Vmc. 57, c. 1470, All folios
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