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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Colour of Staves
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
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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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fair
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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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fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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cursive (bastarda)
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Multiple Texts
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Borders Size
full borders
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
never
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sometimes
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decorated
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trompe l'oeil
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Extra space: staves not ruled on grid
Colour of staves: black
Pricking frequency: none visible
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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