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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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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blue
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dark brown
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light brown
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red
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yellow
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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rarely
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Borders Frequency
always
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rarely
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Borders Size
full borders
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: one-sided
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partial borders: three-sided
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partial borders: two- and three-sided
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partial borders: two-sided
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never
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normally
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rarely
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sometimes
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Painted Initials Type
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decorated
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decorated with grotesque heads
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flourished
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Penned Initials Frequency
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never
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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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historiated
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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zoomorphic initial
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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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Planned Initials Type
Guide letters only
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Other Decoration Frequency
always
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never
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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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Voice-names
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decorated letters
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decorative final long
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embellished final barline
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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signes-de-renvoi
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Ruling medium: single rastrum
Colour of text: brown
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS IV.922, c. 1520, one quire (117-125) c. 1515, All folios
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