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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Number of staves: 2
Colour of text: black
Colour of notation: brown
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Verona, Italy, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS DCCLVIII, c. 1500, All folios
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