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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Physical type
choirbook
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music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony
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Material
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parchment
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Format
oblong
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
brown
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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Indentation for Initials
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left below voice parts as part of grid
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left between voice parts as part of grid
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none
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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not in dedicated space
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provided, in dedicated space
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Adhoc Adaptation
none
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notation and staves extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
dark brown
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light brown
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
pointers
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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Latin
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with two texts
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partially texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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Type of Script
cursive
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cursive (humanistic)
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cursive (italic)
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brown
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Multiple Texts
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Decoration
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Borders Frequency
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: one-sided
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Painted Initials Type
decorated
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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Indentation for initials: none
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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