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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monophonic manuscript with interpolated polyphony
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parchment
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upright
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Size of Music Text Area
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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brown
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Type of Notation
full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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pointers
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Copying of Text
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Latin
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fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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Type of Script
textura
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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black
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blue
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Miniatures Frequency
none visible
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always
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plain initials
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calligraphic
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flourished
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often
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Other Decoration Type
decorated letters
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littera notabilior
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Copy language name: Latin
Level of calligraphy text: very high
Penned initials frequency: often
Adhoc adaptation: partial additional staves
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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