Meaning of positura | Babel Free

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A stroke added to a medieval punctus; a punctuation mark created by addition of such a stroke.

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“The positurae mark those pauses in the text which require the celebrant to inflect the recitation tone[…]”

“The positurae thus indicated not only the "appropriate melodic formula", but also a pause and therefore a rhythmical and syntactic break which it is the primary function of punctuation to mark.”

“After all, it was the revision of the Cistercian liturgy that helped facilitate the widespread use of positurae, particularly the punctus flexus and punctus elevatus.”

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