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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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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Space Provided for Separate Text
provided, in dedicated space
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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fully texted with one text
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
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calligraphic with decoration
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flourished
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sometimes
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calligraphic
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flourished
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Planned Initials Frequency
often
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Other Decoration Frequency
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Colour of notation: dark brown
Presence absence of text: provided with single incipit
Ruling medium: single rastrum
Separate text: not in dedicated space
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Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS II.I.232 (olim Magliabechi XIX.58), c. 1515-1521, All folios
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