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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Material
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
always
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Colour of Staves
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Indentation for Initials
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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provided, in dedicated space
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notation and staves extended into margin
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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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poor
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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none
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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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Copying of Text
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fully texted with one text
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cursive
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black
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brown
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red
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reddish brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
always
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Borders Frequency
rarely
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Borders Size
partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
rarely
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sometimes
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Painted Initials Type
decorated
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historiated
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trompe l'oeil
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always
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normally
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often
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sometimes
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Rome, Italy, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 2856 (olim O.V. 208), c. 1479-81, All folios
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