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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paper
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Size of Music Text Area
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Indentation for initials filled in
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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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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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high
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one text
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black
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
occasionally
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rarely
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Painted Initials Type
calligraphic with decoration
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Other Decoration Type
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Adhoc adaptation: staves extended into margin
Colour of text: red
Disposition of voice part: 3-part consecutive
Non verbal performance instructions: coronae
Penned initials frequency: rarely
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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