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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Material
paper
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Space Provided for Separate Text
no separate text
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staves extended into margin
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Colour of Notation
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absent
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pointers
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fully texted with one text
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provided with single incipit
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Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Rés. Vmc. 57, c. 1470, All folios
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