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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Presence absence of text: untexted
Adhoc adaptation: staveline added
Adhoc adaptation: notation and staves extended into margin
Level of calligraphy music: fair
Number of staves: 6
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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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