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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Pricking
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notation and staves extended into margin
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end symbol
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sometimes
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end-symbol
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Non verbal performance instructions: signes-de-renvoi
Extra space: empty ruled staves on grid
Level of calligraphy text: fair
Physical format: oblong
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Berlin, Germany, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS Mus. 40021 (olim Z 21), c. 1485-1500, All folios
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