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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Belgium
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choirbook
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Material
paper
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parchment
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upright
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Ruling Medium
single rastrum
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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2-part opening
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3-part score
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4-part opening
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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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Indentation for initials filled in
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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partial additional staves
2
staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
high
3
Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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space-filler
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fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with one text
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fully texted with two or more texts
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partially texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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cursive
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cursive (bastarda)
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display script
2
Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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Colour of Text
black
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red
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Multiple Texts
yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
never
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Borders Size
Painted Initials Frequency
never
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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decorated with grotesque heads
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banner
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Colour of notation: black
Extra space: staves not ruled
Indentation for initials: triple
Miniatures frequency: rarely
Penned initials type: decorated with grotesque heads
Pricking frequency: always
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Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.X.1.11 (Lat. 471; olim VI.H.15), 1440s, with additions up c. 1480, All folios
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