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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paper
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paper (with parchment)
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Indentation for initials filled in
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
black
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coronae
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end symbol
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repeat signs
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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space-filler
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Language
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Presence or Absence of Text
fully texted and provided with incipit
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fully texted with one text
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decorated with grotesque heads
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end-symbol
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Copy language name: French
Disposition of voice part: 1-part single page
Level of calligraphy music: poor
Number of staves: 10
Number of staves: 13
Pricking frequency: never
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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 6 (= MaiM 2), c. 1508-30, All folios
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