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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Colour of Staves
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Ruling Medium
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Number of staves
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empty ruled staves on grid
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Space Provided for 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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partial 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
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
high
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very high
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
pointers
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repeat signs
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signes-de-renvoi
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fully texted with one or two texts
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fully texted with two or more texts
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fully texted with two texts
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provided with single incipit
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display script
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hybrida
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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Multiple Texts
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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partial borders: one-sided
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Type of notation: void mensural
Painted initials frequency: occasionally
Level of calligraphy text: high
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Florence, Italy, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS II.I.232 (olim Magliabechi XIX.58), c. 1515-1521, All folios
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