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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Physical type
choirbook
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non-music manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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Material
paper
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Format
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Number of staves
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Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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rotonda
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Colour of Text
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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decorated
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Guide letters only
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Penned initials frequency: often
Presence absence of text: partially texted with one text
Type of script: cursive
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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