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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Pricking
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Ruling Medium
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notation extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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repeat signs
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Miniatures Frequency
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Colour of text: red
Number of staves: 6
Painted initials frequency: normally
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Eton, Great Britain, Eton College Library, MS 178, c. 1500-04, All folios
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