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
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Material
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Size of Music Text Area
Pricking
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Ruling Medium
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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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end symbol
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pointers
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repeat signs
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provided with single incipit
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Level of calligraphy text: poor
Level of calligraphy text: fair
Physical format: upright
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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