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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Manuscript
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Physical type
choirbook
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
single rastrum
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made for complete additional staves
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Colour of Notation
black
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chant (Central European)
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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fair
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repeat signs
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fully texted with one or two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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cursive
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Level of Calligraphy
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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Material: paper
Other decoration type: littera notabilior
Number of staves: 7
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 11239, c. 1500, All folios
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