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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Pricking
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Indentation for initials filled in
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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brown
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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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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provided with multiple incipits
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Pricking frequency: normally
Ruling medium: single rastrum
Number of staves: 8
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London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Egerton 3051, c. 1500, All folios
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