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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music treatise(s) with appended polyphony
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Pricking
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Ruling Medium
single rastrum
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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made for complete additional staves
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other
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partial additional staves
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staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
brown
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Type of Notation
void mensural
5
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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partially texted with one text
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partially texted with two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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provided with single incipit
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provided with two incipits
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Type of Script
cursive (bastarda)
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hybrida
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
brown
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
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zoomorphic initial
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Edinburgh, Great Britain, National Library of Scotland, MS Adv. 5.1.15, c. 1501-1546, All folios
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