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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Adhoc Adaptation
made for complete additional staves
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other
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Copying of Music
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black
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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fair
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signa congruentiae
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provided with one or two incipits
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never
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Borders Frequency
never
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partial borders: one-sided
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rarely
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sometimes
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Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Separate text: no separate text
Adhoc adaptation: notation and staves extended into margin
Pricking frequency: often
Physical type: choirbook
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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