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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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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no separate text
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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light brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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provided with two incipits
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textura
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Borders Frequency
never
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occasionally
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full borders
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partial borders: one-sided
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partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Type
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historiated
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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often
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rarely
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calligraphic with decoration
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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decorated with grotesque heads
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flourished
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Frequency
never
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normally
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often
1
rarely
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sometimes
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Planned Initials Type
Guide letters only
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Other Decoration Frequency
never
2
often
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rarely
2
sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
1
signes-de-renvoi
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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