Greetings Philippe,

This practice predates the age of industrialisation and standardisation. People 
were inconsistent. Similarly with spelling. Very normal in Baroque scores in 
general. If you are preparing an edition then you must make musicological 
decisions about how to handle such things. You can either regularise the 
notation, or copy the original and provide a critical report that discusses the 
matter (or not!). The notations you mention are equivalent. Often with 4 you 
see a small vertical slash through the horizontal bar of the four - this is 
also common and means the same. There’s no one answer. It’s up to you. It 
depends how ‘urtext’ you want to be. Slashes are faster to write for copyists 
in a hurry!

Andrew


On 21 May 2015 at 17:10:55, flup2 (phili...@philmassart.net) wrote:


Does someone know what could explain the use of different numbering for the
same meaning? 
Philippe

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