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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Manuscript
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Physical type
choirbook
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Material
paper
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Format
bound upright but prepared oblong
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
never
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Height of Staves
Colour of Staves
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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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Indentation for initials filled in
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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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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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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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space-filler
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Copying of Text
Language
Flemish
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one or two texts
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partially texted with one text
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provided with one or two incipits
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
brown
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light brown
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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Borders Frequency
always
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never
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Borders Size
partial borders: one- and two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
always
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Painted Initials Type
decorated
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
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Guide letters only
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Non verbal performance instructions: signa congruentiae
Indentation for initials: single
Level of calligraphy text: poor
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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