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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choirbook
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partbook (single)
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Format
oblong
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
none visible
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Colour of Staves
brown
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Ruling Medium
double rastrum
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triple rastrum
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Number of staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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3-part opening
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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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
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
3
Type of Notation
void mensural
3
Monophonic Notation
absent
3
Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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fully texted with one or two texts
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provided with two incipits
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untexted
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Type of Script
cursive (bastarda)
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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black
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Painted Initials Frequency
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decorated
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Penned Initials Frequency
always
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic with decoration
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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Planned Initials Frequency
rarely
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
rarely
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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Level of calligraphy text: high
Ruling medium: double rastrum
Colour of notation: brown
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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