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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Type of Notation
chant (Gothic)
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Colour of notation: red
Level of calligraphy music: high
Locations name: England
Non verbal performance instructions: repeat signs
Number of staves: 7
Number of staves: 9
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 31 (olim H.C.30; = MaiM 71), c. 1510, All folios
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