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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Manuscript
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Physical type
choirbook
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partbook (single)
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paper
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oblong
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Size (height in mm)
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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printed staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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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
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black
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blue
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dark brown
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chant (square)
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full mensural
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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
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
end symbol
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Copying of Text
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cursive
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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black
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brown
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dark brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
rarely
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Painted Initials Type
calligraphic with decoration
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flourished
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Penned Initials Frequency
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plain initials
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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Type of script: cursive
Physical format: oblong
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 3 (olim H.C.1; = MaiM 8), c. 1520-5, All folios
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