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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music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony
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music treatise(s) with appended polyphony
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Format
upright
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Colour of Staves
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Indentation for initials filled in
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none
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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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Type of Notation
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
coronae
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end symbol
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pointers
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repeat signs
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provided with one or two incipits
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untexted
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cursive
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hybrida
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
black
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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Painted Initials Frequency
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decorated
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zoomorphic initial
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rarely
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sometimes
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Planned Initials Type
Guide letters only
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Other Decoration Frequency
never
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
1
sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
2
end-symbol
2
littera notabilior
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Physical format: upright
Colour of text: brown
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one or two texts
Disposition of voice part: 3-part opening
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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