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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Borders frequency: never
Colour of notation: brown
Level of calligraphy music: fair
Level of calligraphy text: fair
Monophonic notation: absent
Physical type: choirbook (fragment)
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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