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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Material
paper
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oblong
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
brown
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light brown
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Ruling Medium
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Number of staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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no separate text
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notation 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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Level of Calligraphy
high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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Copying of Text
Language
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fully texted with one or two texts
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cursive (bastarda)
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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Colour of Text
brown
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Multiple Texts
yes
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
rarely
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Borders Size
full borders
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Painted Initials Frequency
normally
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decorated
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Penned Initials Frequency
always
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normally
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calligraphic
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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flourished
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Planned Initials Frequency
occasionally
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Colour of text: brown
Level of calligraphy music: high
Number of staves: 4
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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