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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paper
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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Level of Calligraphy
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coronae
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Language
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Presence or Absence of Text
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Miniatures Frequency
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Borders Frequency
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Presence absence of text: untexted
Ruling medium: straightedge
Separate text: no separate text
Number of staves: 11
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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