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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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Level of Calligraphy
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signes-de-renvoi
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display script
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Penned Initials Type
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Level of calligraphy text: high
Penned initials type: calligraphic with grotesque heads
Penned initials type: flourished
Pricking frequency: none visible
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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