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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choirbook
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choirbook (single quire(s))
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Format
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Preparation
Size of Music Text Area
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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10-part opening
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Indentation for Initials
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quadruple
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empty ruled staves on grid
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left between voice parts as part of grid
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variable space, not on grid
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no separate text
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Indentation for initials filled in
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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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staveline added
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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numbers to indicate note lengths
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Latin
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted and provided with incipit
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fully texted with one text
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partially texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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antiqua
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cursive (Anglicana)
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cursive (German)
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cursive (bastarda)
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cursive (humanistic)
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display script
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hybrida
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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high
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poor
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Colour of Text
black
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blue
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brown
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dark brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
always
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never
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rarely
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Borders Frequency
never
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occasionally
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rarely
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Borders Size
full borders
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partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
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decorated
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historiated
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trompe l'oeil
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zoomorphic initial
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Penned Initials Frequency
always
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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calligraphic
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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decorated
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decorated with grotesque heads
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Frequency
normally
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often
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rarely
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Planned Initials Type
Other Decoration Frequency
always
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never
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normally
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often
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sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
Voice-names
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decorative final long
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littera notabilior
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Pricking frequency: none visible
Number of staves: 11
Colour of text: black
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Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Rés. Vmc. 57, c. 1470, All folios
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