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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Physical type
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Material
paper
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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reddish brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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hybrida
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reddish brown
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
never
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Borders Size
Painted Initials Frequency
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Painted Initials Type
Penned Initials Frequency
always
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never
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normally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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Planned Initials Type
Guide letters only
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Other Decoration Frequency
normally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
Voice-names
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Level of calligraphy music: fair
Multiple texts: yes
Physical type: choirbook
Presence absence of text: provided with one or two incipits
Type of notation: void mensural
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS II.270, c. 1500, 121-144
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