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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music treatise(s) with appended polyphony
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Material
paper
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parchment
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Colour of Staves
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Disposition of Voice Parts
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Indentation for Initials
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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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Space Provided for Separate Text
not in dedicated space
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provided, in dedicated space
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
brown
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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fully texted with one or two texts
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partially texted with one text
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partially texted with two texts
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provided with one or two incipits
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hybrida
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Colour of Text
blue
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Size
partial borders: three-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
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decorated
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zoomorphic initial
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Penned Initials Frequency
normally
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flourished
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Guide letters only
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Zaragoza, Spain, Iglesia Metropolitana de la Virgen del Pilar, Archivo Musical, Armario C-3, MS 17, 16th century,
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