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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choirbook
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Material
parchment
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Format
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Size of Music Text Area
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normally
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Number of staves
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empty ruled staves on grid
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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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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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Copying of Text
Language
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
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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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cursive (humanistic)
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Colour of Text
black
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light brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
always
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Borders Size
partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: two- and three-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
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Presence absence of text: untexted
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Germ. 8º 190, c. 1470-1500, All folios
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