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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composite manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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Material
paper
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upright
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freehand
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staves not ruled on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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chant (square)
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void mensural
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absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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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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textura
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black
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littera notabilior
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Colour of notation: black
Disposition of voice part: 2-part opening
Disposition of voice part: 2-part single page
Number of staves: 4
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London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Additional 5665, c.1460-1510, All folios
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