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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Italy
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Manuscript
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Physical type
music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony
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partbooks (incomplete set)
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Material
paper
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Format
oblong
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upright
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Colour of Staves
brown
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Ruling Medium
double rastrum
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straightedge
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Number of staves
10
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4
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6
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9
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Disposition of Voice Parts
1-part single page
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Indentation for Initials
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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notation extended into margin
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staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
dark brown
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light brown
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
signa congruentiae
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Copying of Text
Language
French
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Italian
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Latin
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
3
fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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Type of Script
cursive
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cursive (humanistic)
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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brown
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Multiple Texts
yes
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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always
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normally
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic with decoration
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
occasionally
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rarely
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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