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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Copying of Music
Colour of Notation
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Type of Notation
void mensural
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Monophonic Notation
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signa congruentiae
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Miniatures Frequency
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Material: paper
Number of staves: 2
Penned initials type: flourished
Physical type exact%3achoirbook
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Germ. 8º 190, c. 1470-1500, All folios
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