(Heeding the copyright violation warning on the published volume, which had some outrageous doodads attached to ties in many of the preludes, I decided not to do any illegal photocopying. Instead, I searched for a public domain image, which appears to be a photograph of the manuscript.)
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Those French and their unmeasured preludes! A good article here. Evidently this notation has been confusing people for over 300 years.
Thanks for the article Eric. For those people trying to follow the link without a university e-mail connection, it is well worth going to a library to read the article (I got it through Jstor). I love the picture of the cross-eyed d'Anglebert that decorates the article. Perhaps, like the plaintiffs in the movie The Jerk, his condition came as a result of trying to work with this odd notation!
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