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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Planned Initials Frequency
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occasionally
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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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banner
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decorated letters
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Presence absence of text: provided with single incipit
Presence absence of text: partially texted with one text
Ruling medium: single rastrum
Number of staves: 10
Colour of text: brown
Number of staves: 8
Pricking frequency: none visible
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Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Banco Rari 337 (olim Palatino 1178), c. 1520, All folios
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