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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Manuscript
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Pricking
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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full mensural
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
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repeat signs
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signes-de-renvoi
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provided with single incipit
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textura
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Miniatures Frequency
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Colour of notation: black
Monophonic notation: absent
Colour of notation: brown
Number of staves: 3
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Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Chigi C VIII 234, c. 1498-1503, All folios
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