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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Munich, Germany, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica MS 25 (olim H.C.51; = MaiM 69), c. 1520-4, All folios
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