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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Pricking
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empty ruled staves on grid
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provided, in dedicated space
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notation and staves extended into margin
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staveline added
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Copying of Music
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black
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Type of Notation
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Monophonic Notation
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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dark brown
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Multiple Texts
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Adhoc adaptation: notation extended into margin
Presence absence of text: fully texted with one or two texts
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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