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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Physical type
choirbook
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paper
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Pricking
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empty ruled staves on grid
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staves not ruled on grid
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variable space, not on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
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provided, in dedicated space
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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
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
signa congruentiae
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Copying of Text
Language
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Latin
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one text
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fully texted with two or more texts
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untexted
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Type of Script
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display script
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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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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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Penned Initials Frequency
rarely
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Frequency
normally
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normally
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littera notabilior
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Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Material: paper
Ruling medium: single rastrum
Extra space: variable space, not on grid
Level of calligraphy music: fair
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Modena, Italy, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alpha.X.1.11 (Lat. 471; olim VI.H.15), 1440s, with additions up c. 1480, All folios
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