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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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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repeat signs
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provided with one or two incipits
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Physical type: partbooks (complete set)
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Seville, Spain, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 5-1-43 (olim Z Tab. 135, N.° 33), c. 1470-85, All folios
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