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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Extra space: empty ruled staves on grid
Multiple texts: no
Number of staves: 10
Number of staves: 11
Physical type: choirbook
Presence absence of text: provided with single incipit
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS IV.922, c. 1520, one quire (117-125) c. 1515, All folios
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