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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Copying of Music
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numbers to indicate note lengths
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Level of calligraphy text: fair
Material: paper
Multiple texts: no
Number of staves: 4
Number of staves: 5
Number of staves: 7
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Jena, Germany, Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 20, c. 1515-20, All folios
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