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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Production method
Manuscript
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Physical type
choirbook
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Material
paper (with parchment)
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Format
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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normally
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single rastrum
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Number of staves
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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4
Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Copying of Text
Language
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with two or more texts
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antiqua
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textura
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fair
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high
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black
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
rarely
3
Borders Frequency
rarely
5
Borders Size
partial borders: one-sided
5
Painted Initials Frequency
rarely
5
Painted Initials Type
decorated
2
Penned Initials Frequency
normally
4
occasionally
1
rarely
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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never
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decorative final long
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ornament
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Presence absence of text: untexted
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Multiple texts: yes
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Indentation for initials: none
Number of staves: 10
Monophonic notation: absent
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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