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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signa congruentiae
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Level of calligraphy text: high
Material: paper
Monophonic notation: present
Penned initials frequency: sometimes
Physical type: choirbook
Type of script: textura
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS 215-216, between 1503-18, perhaps 1516, All folios
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