Zarotus, Antonio

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Zarotus, Antonio

ZarotUS, Antonio, Italian music printer, active in Milan. He printed a Missale Romanum dated April 26, 1476, in which he used for the first time movable type for the music (the type is in Gothic style). This incun-abulum was publ. 6 months earlier than the Missale of Ulrich Han, at one time considered the earliest specimen of music printed from movable type.

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