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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Number of staves
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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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staveline added
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Copying of Music
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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Level of Calligraphy
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end symbol
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Colour of text: black
Material: paper
Non verbal performance instructions: end symbol
Number of staves: 12
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Ruling medium: single rastrum
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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