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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Colour of Staves
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
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Monophonic Notation
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Level of Calligraphy
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Adhoc adaptation: notation and staves extended into margin
Colour of staves: black
Locations name: Eton
Other decoration type: decorative final long
Painted initials type: historiated
Ruling medium: straightedge
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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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