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
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Type of Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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repeat signs
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Miniatures Frequency
rarely
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Colour of text: red
Copy language name: Latin
Monophonic notation: absent
Number of staves: 5
Penned initials type: plain initials
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London, Great Britain, British Library, MS Additional 5665, c.1460-1510, All folios
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