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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end symbol
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signes-de-renvoi
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Non verbal performance instructions: signes-de-renvoi
Ruling medium: freehand
Multiple texts: no
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Bologna, Italy, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, MS Q 19, c. 1518, All folios
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