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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Physical type
choirbook
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music treatise(s) containing polyphony
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Material
paper
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Format
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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none visible
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rarely
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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Adhoc Adaptation
made for complete additional staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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other
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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dark brown
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gold
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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end symbol
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signa congruentiae
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provided with one or two incipits
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varies
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cursive
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cursive (bastarda)
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roman
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Colour of Text
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dark brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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often
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sometimes
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littera notabilior
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Type of script: cursive
Adhoc adaptation: notation and staves extended into margin
Colour of staves: black
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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