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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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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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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full mensural
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coronae
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end symbol
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numbers to indicate note lengths
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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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Borders Frequency
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decorated with grotesque heads
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flourished
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Frequency
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normally
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occasionally
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rarely
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sometimes
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
normally
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occasionally
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often
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sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
banner
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decorated letters
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Indentation for initials: single
Painted initials type: flourished
Penned initials type: calligraphic with grotesque heads
Physical type: choirbook
Presence absence of text: untexted
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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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