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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Level of Calligraphy
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Colour of text: black
Number of staves: 8
Number of staves: 9
Physical type: choirbook
Type of notation: full mensural
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Florence, Italy, Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2439, c. 1505-10, All folios
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