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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notation and staves extended into margin
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repeat signs
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fully texted with one or two texts
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Borders Frequency
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decorated
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Planned Initials Frequency
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normally
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Level of calligraphy text: high
Miniatures frequency: rarely
Multiple texts: no
Painted initials frequency: normally
Pricking frequency: none visible
Production method: Manuscript
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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