A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tractulus
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TRACTULUS. I. A kind of Neuma, used before the completion of the Stave. [See Neuma].
II. The Guidon, or Sign, used at the end of a Stave, to indicate the note with which the next Stave begins. (In English it is called a Direct.)
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