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
paper
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parchment
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Colour of Staves
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empty ruled staves on grid
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variable space, not on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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Adhoc Adaptation
made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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other
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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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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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with one text
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fully texted with two or more texts
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fully texted with two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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Type of Script
cursive
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cursive (bastarda)
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display script
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
black
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Multiple Texts
no
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
never
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Borders Size
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littera notabilior
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Colour of text: red
Disposition of voice part: 1-part single page
Indentation for initials: single
Level of calligraphy text: high
Number of staves: 5
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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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