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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choirbook
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monophonic manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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Indentation for Initials
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single
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empty ruled staves on grid
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left below voice parts as part of grid
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no separate text
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not in dedicated space
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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chant (Gothic)
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full mensural
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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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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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numbers to indicate note lengths
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Language
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provided with single incipit
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
black
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light brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
Borders Size
Painted Initials Frequency
always
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Painted Initials Type
plain initials
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Penned Initials Frequency
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occasionally
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calligraphic with decoration
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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often
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Pricking frequency: none visible
Ruling medium: straightedge
Level of calligraphy text: fair
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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