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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Indentation for Initials
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present
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textura
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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of Text
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brown
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dark brown
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red
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Multiple Texts
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yes
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Decoration
Miniatures Frequency
never
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normally
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rarely
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Borders Frequency
never
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rarely
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Borders Size
full borders
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partial borders: one- and two-sided
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partial borders: two-sided
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Painted Initials Frequency
always
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never
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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Painted Initials Type
calligraphic
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decorated
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flourished
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plain initials
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always
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never
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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calligraphic
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calligraphic with decoration
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calligraphic with grotesque heads
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decorated
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decorated with grotesque heads
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flourished
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littera notabilior
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plain initials
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always
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never
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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never
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normally
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occasionally
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often
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rarely
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sometimes
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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vignette
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Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 12, 1515-20, All folios
Contrapunctus seu figurata musica super plano cantu missarum solennium totius anni, Lyons, France, 1528, , August 1528, 90
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