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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made for complete additional staves
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notation extended into margin
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partial additional staves
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end symbol
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Adhoc adaptation: notation extended into margin
Multiple texts: no
Non verbal performance instructions: signes-de-renvoi
Number of staves: 6
Presence absence of text: untexted
Production method: Manuscript
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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