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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Material
paper
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parchment
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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empty ruled staves on grid
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no separate text
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made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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coronae
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custodes
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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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space-filler
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Copying of Text
Language
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one text
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fully texted with two or more texts
11
fully texted with two texts
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provided with single incipit
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cursive (bastarda)
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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black
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
never
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Borders Size
full and partial borders
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full borders
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: one-sided
5
partial borders: two- and three-sided
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partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
never
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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Painted Initials Type
decorated
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decorated with grotesque heads
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plain initials
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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flourished
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never
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often
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rarely
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Other Decoration Type
end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Cambrai, France, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 18 (20), c. 1520, All folios
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