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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parchment
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Pricking
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made for complete additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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pointers
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with one text
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partially texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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provided with two incipits
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Type of Script
cursive
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cursive (Anglicana)
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cursive (bastarda)
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display script
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
always
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decorated
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zoomorphic initial
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Penned Initials Frequency
Penned Initials Type
Planned Initials Frequency
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 228, c. 1515, with additions around 1519, All folios
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