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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music treatise(s) containing polyphony
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Colour of Staves
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varies
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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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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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red
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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coronae
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signes-de-renvoi
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space-filler
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varies
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hybrida
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black
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yes
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Borders Frequency
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Planned Initials Type
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rarely
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sometimes
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Other Decoration Type
decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Disposition of voice part: 2-part single page
Disposition of voice part: 3-part single page
Disposition of voice part: 5-part opening
Number of staves: 9
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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