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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choirbook
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Material
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Preparation
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quintuple
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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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Type of Notation
void 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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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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partially texted with one text
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provided with multiple incipits
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untexted
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Type of Script
cursive (bastarda)
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cursive (humanistic)
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fair
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Colour of Text
black
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brown
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light brown
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Multiple Texts
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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partial borders: two- and three-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
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Colour of notation: brown
Type of script: cursive (bastarda)
Miniatures frequency: rarely
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 11239, c. 1500, All folios
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