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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Copy language name: Latin
Indentation for initials: none
Indentation for initials: single
Penned initials frequency: often
Physical type: choirbook
Separate text: not in dedicated space
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 7 (= MaiM 1), c. 1512-30 , All folios
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