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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choirbook
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music treatise(s) with appended polyphony
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Material
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Extra Space Between Voice Parts
empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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Monophonic Notation
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with two or more texts
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partially texted with one text
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provided with one or two incipits
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provided with single incipit
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cursive (Anglicana)
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
brown
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Multiple Texts
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
never
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sometimes
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calligraphic
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rarely
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Other Decoration Frequency
rarely
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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end-symbol
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Colour of notation: brown
Disposition of voice part: 3-part opening
Level of calligraphy text: poor
Number of staves: 4
Physical format: bound upright but prepared oblong
Ruling medium: single rastrum
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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