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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Manuscript
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Physical type
choirbook
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non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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Material
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Format
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Height of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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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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dark brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
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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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fully texted with one or two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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humanistic
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hybrida
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rotonda
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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dark brown
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red
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yellow
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Penned Initials Frequency
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calligraphic
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Guide letters only
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Colour of staves: dark brown
Colour of text: black
Disposition of voice part: 4-part opening
Multiple texts: no
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Modena, Italy, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Modena-Nonantola, MS Mus. IV, c. 1520-30, All folios
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