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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paper
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Format
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Pricking
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Ruling Medium
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made for complete additional staves
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
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end-symbol
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Monophonic notation: absent
Penned initials type: flourished
Type of script: cursive
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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