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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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
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signa congruentiae
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fully texted with one text
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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decorated letters
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Physical format: upright
Colour of text: brown
Presence absence of text: provided with one or two incipits
Separate text: no separate text
Disposition of voice part: 4-part opening
Pricking frequency: never
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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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