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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Pricking
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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation 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
chant (square)
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absent
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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untexted
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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calligraphic
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often
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Other Decoration Type
littera notabilior
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Level of calligraphy text: high
Ruling medium: single rastrum
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London, Great Britain, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1, Late 1520s, All folios
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