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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Material
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partial additional staves
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Copying of Music
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end symbol
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Painted Initials Type
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Colour of text: brown
Level of calligraphy music: fair
Penned initials type: decorated with grotesque heads
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Germ. 8º 190, c. 1470-1500, All folios
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