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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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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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
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Colour of Text
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
never
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Planned initials frequency: sometimes
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Number of staves: 10
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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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