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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no separate text
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notation and staves extended into margin
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black
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textura
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Type of notation: chant (square)
Type of notation: void mensural
Colour of text: red
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Cambridge, Great Britain, Gonville and Caius College, MS 667/760, Late 1520s, All folios
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