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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Type of Notation
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
repeat signs
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Miniatures Frequency
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Type of script: cursive (humanistic)
Pricking frequency: none visible
Colour of staves: brown
Monophonic notation: absent
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Seville, Spain, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 5-1-43 (olim Z Tab. 135, N.° 33), c. 1470-85, All folios
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