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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paper (with parchment)
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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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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present
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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cue notes
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end symbol
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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 and provided with incipit
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provided with one or two incipits
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roman
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Borders Frequency
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rarely
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calligraphic
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decorated letters
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end-symbol
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Colour of notation: brown
Copy language name: Latin
Number of staves: 10
Penned initials frequency: normally
Physical type: choirbook
Ruling medium: single rastrum
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Seville, Spain, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 5-1-43 (olim Z Tab. 135, N.° 33), c. 1470-85, All folios
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