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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Pricking
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Ruling Medium
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1-part single page
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empty ruled staves on grid
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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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notation extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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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
end symbol
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repeat signs
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signes-de-renvoi
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Copying of Text
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fully texted and provided with incipit
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provided with single incipit
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Multiple Texts
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decorated
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calligraphic
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occasionally
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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Colour of text: brown
Disposition of voice part: 2-part opening
Other decoration type: decorative final long
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Seville, Spain, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 5-1-43 (olim Z Tab. 135, N.° 33), c. 1470-85, All folios
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