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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Pricking
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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left below voice parts as part of grid
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left between voice parts as part of grid
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no separate text
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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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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varies
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cursive (Anglicana)
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cursive (German)
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textura
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Colour of Text
black
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dark brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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rarely
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Borders Frequency
never
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calligraphic
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decorated letters
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Colour of text: black
Physical format: upright
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one text
Presence absence of text: provided with single incipit
Ruling medium: straightedge
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 228, c. 1515, with additions around 1519, All folios
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