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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Physical type
choirbook
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paper
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oblong
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
always
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n/a
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Colour of Staves
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printed staves
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Number of staves
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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
chant (square)
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Copying of Text
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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
cursive
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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black
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Multiple Texts
no
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Miniatures Frequency
Borders Frequency
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Painted Initials Frequency
rarely
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calligraphic with decoration
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flourished
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Penned Initials Frequency
always
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normally
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often
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rarely
1
sometimes
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Penned Initials Type
calligraphic
1
calligraphic with grotesque heads
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decorated
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flourished
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plain initials
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Planned Initials Frequency
often
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often
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Penned initials type: plain initials
Pricking frequency: never
Physical format: oblong
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Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 19, c. 1518, All folios
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