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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Colour of Staves
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Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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provided with one or two incipits
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
occasionally
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rarely
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Borders Size
partial borders: one- and two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
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normally
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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normally
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occasionally
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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
decorated letters
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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signes-de-renvoi
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Colour of notation: black
Multiple texts: no
Physical type: choirbook
Pricking frequency: never
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 53 (olim H.C.49; = MaiM 12), c. 1510-25, All folios
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