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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parchment
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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calligraphic
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Adhoc adaptation: notation extended into margin
Colour of notation: brown
Physical format: upright
Physical type: choirbook
Pricking frequency: always
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Paris, France, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français MS 1596, c. 1495, All folios
Siena, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K. 1.2, c. 1500, 1-207
Siena, Italy, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, MS K. 1.2, c. 1500, 208-224
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