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
black
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coronae
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signa congruentiae
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signes-de-renvoi
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Copying of Text
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Presence absence of text: provided with single incipit
Physical format: upright
Type of script: cursive (German)
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Brussels, Belgium, Bibliothèque Royal Albert 1er/Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, MS II.270, c. 1500, 121-144
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