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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choirbook
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parchment
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upright
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Ruling Medium
single rastrum
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Number of staves
10
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Disposition of Voice Parts
2-part opening
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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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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
high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Copying of Text
Language
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Latin
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fully texted with one text
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fully texted with two or more texts
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provided with multiple incipits
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provided with single incipit
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cursive (bastarda)
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textura
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high
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black
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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always
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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decorated with grotesque heads
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flourished
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Planned Initials Frequency
rarely
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
rarely
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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Adhoc adaptation: partial additional staves
Colour of notation: dark brown
Colour of notation: red
Disposition of voice part: 4-part opening
Indentation for initials: single
Presence absence of text: untexted
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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