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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Manuscript
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Physical type
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Format
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Ruling Medium
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Number of staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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Indentation for initials filled in
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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
black
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dark brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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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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Copying of Text
Language
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fully texted and provided with incipit
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textura
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Colour of Text
black
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brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
never
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Borders Size
Painted Initials Frequency
occasionally
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Penned Initials Frequency
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Adhoc adaptation: Indentation for initials filled in
Non verbal performance instructions: signa congruentiae
Separate text: no separate text
Type of notation: void mensural
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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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