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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Physical type
choirbook
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Material
paper
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Format
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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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notation extended into margin
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staveline added
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Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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repeat signs
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Presence absence of text: provided with one or two incipits
Presence absence of text: untexted
Production method: Manuscript
Colour of text: brown
Colour of staves: black
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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